Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] down [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to specifying what the core should contain , the framework laid down the percentage of the timetable to be allocated to some subjects , for example , English and mathematics were each to be allocated ten per cent . |
| 2 | Severe wind turbulence caused my canopy to go down a lot faster than normal . |
| 3 | Her heart tumbled down a stairway . |
| 4 | The Principal of St John 's declared roundly that he was a lunatic — ‘ I saw him yesterday afternoon walking down the Bailey with one foot on the pavement and one foot in the gutter all the way ’ . |
| 5 | In the same way , the laws of thermodynamics laid down a framework within which engines and refrigerators operate . |
| 6 | It will typically take several hours for the car to go down the line , hundreds of workers will be directly involved in fitting the various bits and pieces , and each will have a cycle time of perhaps 60 seconds to do their allotted task . |
| 7 | He watched in agony as Ram , with the deliberate movements of long service and old age , tore the cartridge , emptied the powder into the muzzle , and took his ramrod to drive down the rest of the cartridge . |
| 8 | While the deal goes down the rest of them wait next door . |
| 9 | This sort of feeble whining goes down a treat with women like Alison . |
| 10 | An attempt was made where possible to aspirate gastric juice using a Teflon catheter passed down the suction biopsy channel . |
| 11 | POLICE yesterday named the man killed when a car plunged down an embankment into a tree at a popular beauty spot . |
| 12 | A moaning wind frisks down the coast , kicking up a roaming layer of top-sand in its wake . |
| 13 | For example , if I measure a car traveling down the highway , I might think it had moved only one kilometer , but to someone on the sun , it would have moved about 1,800 kilometers , because the earth would have moved while the car was going down the road . |
| 14 | Jack saw the ambulance tearing down the factory service road , siren screaming , lights blazing . |
| 15 | It was argued that the government 's policy towards Austin Rover could be viewed as an attempt to slim down the company through rationalisation and privatise parts as they became profitable ( eg Jaguar ) , finishing up with an unprofitable rump which had very little chance of long-term viability on its own . |
| 16 | With very good will the adviser writes down the address of the local family counselling services . |
| 17 | A NEW reward of £5,000 has been offered in a bid to track down the killer of sunbather Ann Heron . |
| 18 | He had almost given up hope of meeting Liza on the beach and was considering whether he would , after all , call at Four Winds , despite Eleanor 's warnings , when , to his incredulous delight , on the fifth day of his visit , he saw a different figure scrambling down the cliff followed by a little girl . |
| 19 | Police are now using DNA testing , or genetic fingerprinting in an attempt to track down the rapist . |
| 20 | Nor will the car break down every week . |
| 21 | A horse came down the ramp in one bound , as if on wings , hit the concrete in a shower of sparks . |
| 22 | That evening , when Mrs Hollidaye crept into Dot 's bedroom to damp down the fire for the night and check that the guard was securely in place , she had filled a trug basket with garden produce . |
| 23 | In what appeared to be an attempt to play down the affair , President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , widely regarded as a " moderate " , commented in a sermon on Feb. 16 that " if the West deal with the issue logically , the result will be that the Imam 's sentence will be regarded as an issue of Islamic expertise , not anything else " . |
| 24 | I crawled over the grass and sat with my back against the farmhouse and stared at the blood pouring down the front of my battledress . |
| 25 | Big confrontation in Parliament today when the opposition threw down a challenge … they want a head to head on march 27 … no we 're not talking politics … we 're talking sport and the boat race |
| 26 | The Chinese echoed Western views that the USSR had ‘ in effect turned down the proposal of some Western countries for the neutralisation of Afghanistan ’ . |
| 27 | One of the agents observing some fragments of rock clattering down the shaft and falling around him , warned , " take care or you will have your brains knocked out . " |
| 28 | A MAJOR talking point after the Second Division promotion clash was why Sheffield referee John Key turned down a goal that would have shattered Middlesbrough 's unbeaten home League record . |
| 29 | He was reckoned to be one of the officers prepared to use force to put down the revolution . |
| 30 | In the personal social services field there has been reference to the need to encourage self-help and voluntary action to keep down the cost of providing professional social care . |