Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | payments should be 100% of loss up to a certain limit , and tapered down in varying proportions thereafter . |
| 2 | Needing to think very deeply about her situation , however , Leith pushed thoughts of Sebastian from her and got down to serious thought . |
| 3 | Suddenly the issue was resolved with terrible finality for them both , as the inner floors gave way and crashed down in flaming ruin . |
| 4 | By evening the weather was better , but we did n't fancy another night in Porto , so we unpacked our bikes and cycled down through cool pine forests into the town for a well-earned rest . |
| 5 | I turned away from the scars near Warrendale Knots and dropped down by Middle High Hill to Settle and lunch at the Naked Man where the nicest ladies you could ever wish to meet serve real Yorkshire food , and plenty of it . |
| 6 | The assembly passed it to presbyteries and they in turn passed it on through their billets to ministers who in turn were supposed to pass it to sessions and it was supposed to be discussed at session level and turned down to ordinary congregations . |
| 7 | The road rolled over a hill and curled down among flesh-pink dunes . |
| 8 | Then he was touched on the head by a rebirther and broke down into uncontrollable sobs . |
| 9 | It 's been one of the success stories of the last few years , managing to get through the culture barrier where the local authority thought a small unit was 15 or 20 people working down and the health service thought a small unit was 120 and worked down with great reluctance . |
| 10 | As they flew over the house and looked down on colourful gardens she could see a pool of some considerable size , glittering greenly in the sun , tubs of geraniums around it . |
| 11 | I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in . |
| 12 | The need for ginger beer was agreed and put down to French eccentricity . |
| 13 | They cover every available flat surface , of wall , shelf , door and ceiling ; they have been cut out and pasted down without apparent plan or pattern , into a crazy-paving of paintings , posters , diagrams , photographs , cards , calendars and illustrations vandalised-though neatly scalpeled , rather than ripped — from books . |
| 14 | His grandad usually advocates something very nourishing like choccie biccies dunked in condensed milk and swilled down by draught-flow Boddingtons ! |
| 15 | Loulou danced twice with Flavia , once with Therese and twice with Jeannine and sat down for good after that ; Flavia danced also with Giles , with Paul and with Therese who was able to show the steps . |
| 16 | Walterkin moved away and sat down with raised knees . |
| 17 | Inanna made a bitter sound and sat down on tapestried coverlet . |
| 18 | Roy Poynter and Derek Seager both won one , but went down to unbeaten Dave Stenning . |
| 19 | If anyone doubts the dangers to an opposition party of a rush to judgment about what needs to be done after election defeat , they ought to dip into some of the memoirs of the 1959 period , the last time that Labour , while in opposition , hoped and expected they would win , but went down to serious defeat ( in that case , by 100 seats ) . |