Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] down from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Georgie Fame , Billy Fury and Pet Clarke all dusted down from retirement and brought back to our screens ? |
| 2 | To want to be a millionaire was coarse , even ridiculous ; money somehow floated down from Daddy or was waiting in a will at the end of an estate — that , though rarely the reality , was a prevailing view , and rather attractive in its unworldly dimension . |
| 3 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 5 | I 've just driven down from Manchester and I 'm slightly knackered . |
| 6 | However , what is also handed down from father to son these days is the importance of seeking a higher-paid and higher-status job elsewhere as soon as possible . |
| 7 | The bone-setting power is often handed down from father to son . |
| 8 | These massive constructions of bamboo and paper , often passed down from year to year and re-covered for the next May festival by a new team , were far beyond the capacity of any individual flyer . |
| 9 | Swords are often passed down from father to son , and may be extremely ancient family heirlooms that have drawn blood in thousands of battles . |
| 10 | They were easily built and repaired using tools and skills often passed down from father to son . |
| 11 | He was aware that famous players of those roles had developed their own ways of interpretation and tricks , which were then handed down from generation to generation . |
| 12 | Some of these rules are concerned with the different components which go to make up a traditional story — the kind of story which is orally handed down from generation to generation . |
| 13 | The memory of how beautiful advertising executive Elizabeth never backed down from danger still manages to bring a sad , proud smile to her parents ' faces . |