Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably the programmers cut down on frills in order to cram it all into a single load , though I do n't know why they bothered — no-one will ever get past Level Ten anyway ! |
| 2 | Slowly the roofs go down , |
| 3 | Eventually the squabbling died down . |
| 4 | A protracted legal battle ensued , but Mr Bright declined the offer of a steam engine from the colliery owners and eventually the mill closed down . |
| 5 | But this was too soon in my own development for me to be able to grasp the opportunity and eventually the shop closed down and Mr Farrer moved on . |
| 6 | At first he answered in a very bad-tempered way , but suddenly the robin flew down near them , and the old man began to smile . |
| 7 | Besides , I did n't fancy going to the Chapel and having all the family looking down their noses at me . |
| 8 | Clouds of smoke billowed out so the teams crouched down to avoid inhaling the poisonous fumes . |
| 9 | we 'll show you now how to put on a pressure bandage for severe bleeding and then we 'll put the film on and you can see the whole lot again , okay , so just be in the room if you just push and push and push on the window and er the hand has gone through the window , right , and there 's no glass imbedded but it 's cut right across the palm and the reason that we show you this one is because the artery that feeds all these fingers comes and the thumb comes up in an arch like that okay , so the artery comes down , up in an arch across the palm of the hand , so the fingers and thumb all get a blood supply , so when you cut the palm of your hand there is a lot of blood pumping out , okay , so what 's the first thing I 'd tell her to do ? |
| 10 | So the constraint boils down to : we can perceive only that which we usually perceive . |
| 11 | So the stuff coming down , goes through there and then it goes into the rest of the tubes , and away through . |
| 12 | So the discussion got down to practicalities and planning , a new keenness evident . |
| 13 | There are other signs that might lead you to believe that there 's things not as they might be , the legs may not be equal length particularly if only one is dislocated and that 's fairly obvious is n't it because the , the , the ball joint 's not in the socket and there 's a bigger gap so the leg hangs down longer and you 've all changed a baby have n't you and you see that they 've got little creases in the insides of their legs and across their buttocks , and those creases may not be a mirror matching they are normally , so those are clues . |
| 14 | As the lake mists rise up to the hills so the clouds trail down the mountains and valleys to embrace the earth . |
| 15 | So the choice comes down to twist or braid , and the synthetic material from which it is made . |
| 16 | So the pile goes down . |
| 17 | The librarian , fearful of fire , gently shooed Corbett out so the clerk went down to stroll in the monastery 's small herb garden while he rigorously analysed all he had learnt in his journey to Kinghorn . |
| 18 | Of course they could n't all be allowed to hide behind the columns of the nave or squat upon the font , and so the stewards took down the barriers and let them flood into my side . |
| 19 | Four plus three , as the number you add on goes down so the answer goes down . |
| 20 | So the sergeant came down into the cellar and again was awarded a pint ; he explained that the wing commander was wanted back at Oakington immediately because someone at HQ wanted to speak to him . |
| 21 | So the bear sat down and waited , and when the young lord returned he was persuaded to take the bear into his service . |
| 22 | So the family settled down in its definitive shape : father , mother , daughter and son . |
| 23 | So the fox sat down by him and chatted until the young lord came back with a stag which he had shot . |
| 24 | So the membrane thins down , the solvent collects rounds the around the outside and er you 're left with a pure bilayer of phospholipid . |
| 25 | So we took the roof off but then it rained very hard so the walls fell down . |
| 26 | The canal route was dark and it was deep and it was a secret vein that ran through the heart of the city , and only the scum dropped down here after hours and expected to survive . |
| 27 | On the other hand , the choice between x = 0 and unc can be postponed to ( at least ) the next step : it is only the value communicated down c that is at stake , and it is possible to construct a single expression that takes the correct value in all states with |
| 28 | So it was to be expected that this sight should arouse some curiosity , and after putting their heads together the women put down their bowls and kettles and went over to ask the painter who was coming to live there . |
| 29 | Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea . |
| 30 | Now all I 'm suggesting to him is that there is here apparently a requirement laid down by the treaty which ca n't be aggregated by any one individual member state which could actually only be enforced by reference to a court of justice and what I 'd like to ask is in the light of this very deep seated concern by the French about Strasbourg er and the European parliament building and the knowledge that this is of such importance to the er of er voting and of representation in the community of the European elections . |