Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They set off down the lane , Elizabeth , Jonna and Jonadab going ahead on three heavy horses and the men and dogs following , slipping and skidding on the hard-packed snow trodden down by the shires . |
| 2 | She was frowning , deep lines appearing between her eyebrows , mouth drawn down at the edges so that instead of a classically good-looking slim English Rose in her late twenties , she looked faded , years older than her real age , and shrewish . |
| 3 | Clifford and another constable who was in the car got down to the foreshore as quickly as they could on the offchance that the man was alive and needed help , but they soon saw that he was n't . |
| 4 | Of even greater strategic importance to the review was a condition set down by the Chancellor at the very beginning . |
| 5 | The USC claimed by Jan. 1 to control large areas of the capital , with the President pinned down in a bunker at a military base south of Mogadishu airport ; later reports said he was confined to the presidential palace . |
| 6 | Since one has reason to express such an attitude in this way doing so enables one to conform to reasons which apply to one , which is the condition laid down by the normal justification thesis . |
| 7 | The foot of the inclined way descends below the level of what may be termed the tail bay which is open at the end so that the dock and carriage run down into the water in order to bring the dock into alignment with the tail bay to allow of the vessel being hauled in or out of the dock . |
| 8 | Large plants and containers make this impractical , and it is then a case of loosening the soil-ball at the sides with a stick pushed down against the inside wall of the container . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Timber was carted up , a tough job for any horse , and ore brought down to the Paddy End Mill in the same manner . |
| 11 | The Corporation , in any event , envisaged a higher building on the lorry-park site to match the larger building beyond , with the silhouette stepped down to the level of the Georgian Custom House on the east side . |
| 12 | Two days earlier , acting on her own behalf and that of her children , the widow of Jean-Baptiste Lully , Madeleine Lambert , sold all the remaining books of Lully 's music to Jean Baptiste Christophe Ballard in accordance with a sentence handed down by the courts of Châtelet de Paris the previous day ( 16 July 1714 ) . |
| 13 | Top West End antiques dealer Arthur Davidson — son-in-law of the late showbiz millionaire Leslie Grade — had his business closed down by the receivers . |
| 14 | In the light of what he read to be the limitation laid down by the Court of Appeal , the judge concluded , at p. 663E , that ‘ little , if any , of the information sought by the administrators can be described as ‘ reconstituting the company 's knowledge . ’ |
| 15 | Then the driver hunched down with a magazine , the door buzzed open and Maxim went in . |
| 16 | Piloted by Hoof Proudfoot , the Lightning flew with the undercarriage locked down for the 35 minute flight back to base . |
| 17 | In R. ( O'Brien ) v. Military Governor , N.D. U. Internment Camp ( 1924 ) a decision of the old Irish Court of Appeal , a Public Safety ( Emergency Powers ) Act was declared invalid on the ground that it had not been passed in accordance with the procedure laid down in the constitution . |
| 18 | It was tight above , with a pale pink " vee " for modesty in the front , and the back cut down to the coccyx , with another little " vee " there too . |
| 19 | In this instance I have a better chance of getting the ball close by using the slope to let the ball run down to the flag . |
| 20 | In a similar manner , if cells of the sponge ( the bath sponge is the skeleton laid down by the sponge ) are separated into a random mixture of individual cells they will actively move around and become reorganized into a normal sponge , with the cells in the correct relationship with one another . |
| 21 | This was the approach laid down by the Court of Appeal in R. v. Sunair Holidays ( 1973 ) and confirmed by the House of Lords in British Airways Board v. Taylor ( 1976 ) . |
| 22 | Yet for the early mammalian embryo , it seems that Driesch was correct for there is no polarity laid down in the egg . |
| 23 | The team took up the gauntlet thrown down by the Health and Safety Executive and came up with a thorough checklist for the city 's 7 homes . |
| 24 | Reconsider this planned essay with the introduction broken down into the parts as suggested . |
| 25 | Hosanna padded down from the steps that led up to the patio door and sat beside her , lifting his right paw and placing it on her thigh . |
| 26 | A steep path cut down from the quarry edge to the meadow . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've got a neat little ketch moored down at the marina . |
| 28 | It could have been a glass put down upon a table . |
| 29 | We managed to decrease the noise by backing off the low-mid rumble point and the 11kHz hiss by about 13dB , but to attenuate the DI output down to a reasonable level we 'd have had to use a separate DI box , and that means making up a special XLR-to-jack lead . |
| 30 | He pumped a shot into the breech and laid the gun on the portside cockpit settee , covering it with his shirt weighted down against the wind with the coiled stern line . |