Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | It really is time for the courts to stamp down on motoring infringments . |
| 2 | ‘ But , one year or so for the Services to wind down is pretty drastic . ’ |
| 3 | A very long aisle is too far for the friends to walk down . |
| 4 | A certain amount of the Stuart expansion had been carried out by chartered companies , and the enemies of James II showed relatively little regard for the rights laid down in these charters . |
| 5 | So if these beggars up at the top it was had been er thought out had a break well er it was alri =right for the others working down in the bottom to have a a break . |
| 6 | I 'll arrange for the carriers to come down as soon as I get back . |
| 7 | It stuck a bit halfway , since zippers always do , but it did n't take long to get an opening big enough for the nomes to climb down inside . |
| 8 | Though he did not dictate , he went at a pace slow enough for the listeners to take down a lot of what he said . |
| 9 | Johnny Coppin hopes most of all that readers and listeners to his music and poetry collections will get a sense of the spirit of place of the land between the rivers meandering down to the sea |
| 10 | Arsenal have always been Thomas 's first choice , but talks between the clubs broke down acrimoniously two weeks ago when a £2.5 million offer was rejected . |
| 11 | It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order . |
| 12 | The Bolshevik revolution lent new urgency to Russian demands for general peace negotiations , and , in December , the new regime 's publication of secret treaties between the Allies laying down agreed post-war spheres of influence in Turkey and the Middle East , appeared to lend force to claims that the war was being fought for imperial gain . |
| 13 | A gentle stroll through the gardens led down to the beautiful long , wide beach . |
| 14 | Corbett saw two of the assailants go down screaming , clutching red spouting wounds and hoped the rest would be too chastened to follow , surprised by the fierce resistance they had encountered . |
| 15 | In 1588 , several inhabitants of Shrewsbury were imprisoned after physically resisting the attempts of the magistrates to pull down a maypole , and the following year the Mayor of Canterbury was confronted with a protest morris dance outside his house when he forbade maypole dancing in the town . |
| 16 | Yet cave explorers , always indefatigable in their search for holes in the ground , have discovered several apertures in the beds of the streams coming down from Barbon High Fell , many of them admitting to underground passages and caves attained only by arduous effort . |
| 17 | Many of the rules laid down by this syndicat in 1904 were later taken as the basic framework around which the AOC regulations for Champagne were formulated in 1927 . |
| 18 | Because as soon as the national agreement come into being our our of the meetings dropped down dropped down dropped down until there were very few attending . |
| 19 | The clatter was quite effective until one of the masters stamped down on the offenders . |
| 20 | Thus her conclusion that ‘ Once the discretion arises it is for the court to conduct the necessary balancing exercise between what would otherwise be required by the Convention and the interests of the children ’ is wrong in law and fatal to a proper exercise of a discretion under the Convention because it predicates that matters relating to the welfare of children falling outside the ambit of the criteria laid down by the Convention itself are relevant to the exercise of the discretion . |
| 21 | Does the Foreign Secretary accept that there should be general acceptance of the criteria laid down by the European Community on recognition , but that there might be some stricture about the speed of recognition , especially for Yugoslavia ? |
| 22 | If it meets all of the criteria laid down by these bodies , the NCVQ or SCOTVEC ‘ seal of approval ’ will be given and the awarding body will be able to offer the awards . |
| 23 | She heard herself snivelling like a child , and was extremely conscious of the tears rolling down her cheeks as she undressed . |
| 24 | I 'd just like to know ! she whispered to herself , barely aware of the tears sliding down her cheeks . |
| 25 | The deep rumbling of the explosions dying down to a hissing of falling dust , everything grew quiet , and the twenty or so survivors collapsed against a low wall to get their breath back . |
| 26 | Moving on from Port Erin there 's a mountain section over the three summits of Bredda Hill , Lhiattee ny Beinee and Cronk ny Arrey Las with the western sides of the hills falling down into the west side of the island to Point of Ayre there are long sections of lonely beach walks . |
| 27 | The weeping of the stars rains down . |
| 28 | Must be , some of the girls lay down . |
| 29 | The press reported in detail the ordeal which rape survivors must undergo in the court situation — GIRL WEEPS AFTER 90-MINUTE RAPE QUIZ — when one of the girls broke down in court during questioning . |
| 30 | Most of the players backed down from a damaging dispute at a meeting with chairman Phil Lowe yesterday . |