Example sentences of "[vb base] down their [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SSA would not normally condone betting , but for a good cause head office staff are positively encouraged to have a flutter by SSA chairman On February 5 around 8O people put down their stakes for four horse and four videoed greyhound races . |
| 2 | But note , too , as you examine such clues in the hands of masters of the craft , that almost always they put down their clues with a fine boldness . |
| 3 | Those the people that have been there and put down their names on it ? |
| 4 | There appears no civilised pale where they can remove their armour and let down their guard for any length of time . |
| 5 | And they look down their noses at schemes devised by builders which may offer £100 a month to encourage a potential purchaser of their existing home . |
| 6 | Simon , s brother , John , saw himself as one of the new breed of Conservatives , who were not bound by class ; yet he complained at length about other branches who ‘ look down their noses at us ’ . |
| 7 | It 's just that New York fashion people look down their noses at you unless you 're a graduate of a fancy school of design . ’ |
| 8 | Rabbits often disappear down their holes at great speed and without slowing up , so they clearly need an excellent assessment of exactly where to jump , to avoid bumping into the sides of their front entrance . |
| 9 | Indeed we may inhibit their development if we force them to use unfamiliar approaches which slow down their thinking in the cause of a mistaken view of what it is to work systematically . |
| 10 | Early in 1987 , a memo was circulated to all Harvard staff assuring them that Harvard would still be in business that time the following year and that appeal options would be taken up , should the Stock Exchange turn down their application for membership . |
| 11 | It 's an annual ritual for the National Trust , as they close down their properties for the winter break . |
| 12 | If the supply of suitable saplings near the site runs out , they will dig canals leading into the stream and float down their logs from farther away . |