Example sentences of "[noun pl] down [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Write all your metaphors and similes down on a separate sheet of paper . |
| 2 | The atmosphere was tense and all realised it was heads down for a full house . |
| 3 | He frequently gives interviews , and has got television performances down to a fine art . |
| 4 | And Doherty , the best Irish player at present on the professional circuit , did n't let his fans down with a comfortable 5–2 win over an out of touch Neal Foulds of England . |
| 5 | Just inside the door were two steps down to a small living room about ten feet square , behind this was a tiny scullery and the houses had two small bedrooms upstairs . |
| 6 | To reach the sea below guests can take the lift , footpath and flight of 177 steps down to a small private beach . |
| 7 | Here no conversion had been done to the wretched little room , once a scullery , with two steps down to a small yard stacked high with rubbish . |
| 8 | There is limited parking at Belle Vue ( SE343197 ) beside the Calder & Hebble Navigation ( April 84 guide ) which ends at Fall Ing Lock , below which are a flight of steps down to a convenient platform . |
| 9 | Eyes down for a full house and a long run . |
| 10 | Eyes down for a full house . |
| 11 | Having completed the very demanding annual Personal Weapons Test , each section member was required to run up a plank of wood to a window-frame , shoot at a target on the other side of the window , and then throw himself six feet down into a simulated building interior . |
| 12 | One phone call to other parents will bind you together — and give you the parent power to put all your combined feet down with a loud stamp . |
| 13 | He could remember that there was an age for puppets and magic , just as he could remember the time that he 'd spent trying to fan a deck of cards or sitting in front of a mirror trying to get the hard consonants down like a real ventriloquist . |
| 14 | The evolution of integrated circuit technology has been such that you 've been progressively able to put more and more transistors down on a single integrated circuit , and so a microprocessor has got more and more powerful with the passage of time . |
| 15 | He put the milk bottles down on a small table in the hall , where they were to remain until Ianthe left , and as far as she knew , for ever after . |
| 16 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
| 17 | Indeed , they boasted proudly that retail electricity prices had risen more slowly than the retail price index in general : although their own tariffs had risen faster , average consumption had gone up and the extra kWh had been sold at the lower incremental charges of two-part or block tariffs , thus bringing the average domestic price in their first ten years down by a fifth in real terms . |
| 18 | Along the South Coast , Meridian is playing things down with a ten-minute introduction to new faces and programmes followed by a movie . |
| 19 | You said w we pare things down to a minimum price . |
| 20 | The organisers of the annual EAA Convention , held at Wittman Regional Airport , Oshkosh , Wisconsin , have got things down to a fine art , the event runs like clockwork , in fact it would probably do some airshow organisers in Europe a power of good to pay a visit to Oshkosh and see for themselves how fly-ins , airshows and ground exhibitions can , and should , be run . |
| 21 | Slowing things down on a busy Wednesday afternoon on Trent F M. |
| 22 | It packs down to a handy 52cm × 17cm , has a taped ripstop nylon fly — PU coated — and cost £250 . |
| 23 | The shelter packs down into an attached stuff sack . |
| 24 | The effects of the measures on accidents in Buxtehude have already been described , with serious injury accidents down by a third and considerable financial savings being made in addition to the more important human ones . |
| 25 | I had naively imagined that marriage would magically obliterate the origins of the wealth we shared , melting Dennis 's laboriously acquired treasures down into a common heap of anonymous gold . |
| 26 | He knew how to create extraordinary visual effects simply by changing the direction of his brush stroke , so that light streams down from an unseen sun , or a horizon line is conjured up out of three horizontal bands of subtly modulated shades of blue . |
| 27 | Indeed , holding prices down to an inefficient level of costs may be inferior in its effects to a form of control in which prices are high but costs are low . |
| 28 | The guy who let us in flops down on an old divan . |
| 29 | Nigel always felt he won hands down in a verbal fight . |
| 30 | We had to put the babies down at a certain time and leave them — it was horrible . |