Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | South Africa was marred by the fatal accident to Tom Pryce when a marshal ran across the track : a memorable moment when a dead man 's car kept running down the straight . |
| 2 | The local skateboard club voted to take down the three foot of vert and use the vert sections to make up a flat bottom . |
| 3 | Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans . |
| 4 | Lawrence thought his side had let down the fans . |
| 5 | ‘ He thought the only explanation was that staff at the club had watered down the drinks . |
| 6 | The winter rain and snow had beaten down the weeds to a mulch of sodden brown stems , through which the bricks and rubbish on the ground protruded . |
| 7 | A couple more members of the gang came scrambling down the companionway ladder . |
| 8 | ACT decided to go down the object-oriented route for several reasons . |
| 9 | And if the faculty chose to go down the specialist qualification route , he added , it would go some way towards restoring credibility in the auditing profession by ensuring that standards are raised . |
| 10 | And she was on his knee , and their arms were round each other , and though the sun had gone down the garden at that moment was glorious , full of a blaze of splendour that surrounded them like a halo . |
| 11 | Liz 's gurgle of laughter had floated down the wires . |
| 12 | Here when the sin in the darkness had been brought to the light its power was broken and in this case confession had battered down the barrier . |
| 13 | The youngster had fallen down the steep embankment on the Colchester side of the station , injuring her back and legs , and was unable to move . |
| 14 | But our judge might be able to guarantee this by making plain that he intends the new rule to govern all future cases , and that the exception for Elmer was made possible only by the fact that no judge had laid down a similar rule before Elmer committed his crime . |
| 15 | Methodism had broken down the old geographical barriers so that now nearly all areas had their Nonconformists . |
| 16 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 17 | Since unionization levels among white-collar workers are about half those for blue-collar in both countries , this shift worked to pull down the average level of unionization even though more white-collar workers started to join unions . |
| 18 | The gentle breeze managed to cool down the heat of the sun a little but sustained the dust raised by the passing vehicles and deposited it in a thin film on the white tablecloths and the empty seats of the outdoor café . |
| 19 | After 4 a.m. on the morning of the twenty-seventh the eruption appeared to die down a little , but the grandest moments were yet to come . |
| 20 | Perhaps the pussy had fallen down the well again , they thought . |
| 21 | But the location 's convenience for those Oxbridge dons who formed the nucleus of the original community had weighed down the scales against possible danger of discovery ; and this judgment was vindicated , because we were never bombed . |
| 22 | As they moved towards me , I moved away , but at last I came to a part of the field where rain had knocked down the corn . |
| 23 | In an assessment of the United States ' principle of ‘ forward basing ’ Slobodenko observed that since the late 1960s the American leadership began to scale down the numbers of their troops abroad . |
| 24 | Jabril , it said , had allegedly had Iranian financial backing , and the Lockerbie attack was thus interpreted as a revenge attack after the US navy had shot down an Iranian airliner in July 1988 [ see pp. 36169-70 ] . |
| 25 | Months of raw sewage had passed down the scarred pavement outside and a thin layer of grass — a bright , sickly , unreal green — had crept over the doorstep and into the building . |
| 26 | TREVOR FRANCIS last night refused to bring down the curtain on his playing career , even though Sheffield Wednesday chairman Dave Richards has begged him to bow out . |
| 27 | Begbroke seemed ideal but then the vicar started laying down the law . |
| 28 | The party had officially received less than 3 per cent of the votes in the April general election ( see p. 36603 ) , and before the poll Mestiri had turned down a proposal by the ruling RCD for a national coalition . |
| 29 | The fat undertaker had closed down the tailgate of the hearse and stood about on the gravel , twirling his keys . |
| 30 | The previous Polish government failed to shut down the famous Lenin shipyard in Gdansk . |