Example sentences of "[vb past] down [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thick golden bars of sunlight slanted down from the tall narrow windows . |
| 2 | If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about . |
| 3 | Back in Barbados , we got down to the serious business of Christmas . |
| 4 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 5 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 6 | As Vimla pirouetted , pulling her sari over her head in a parody of the Dance of the Seven Veils , Chaman Guru put down the cymbals and got down to the serious business of collecting money . |
| 7 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 8 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 9 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 10 | It was only when they got down to the particular that problems arose . |
| 11 | Zipped up the inside , and with a squared off toe , it was the last word in futuristic chic that was to be adapted and toned down for the mass market . |
| 12 | ‘ No more risque sketches and you 're to get everything toned down in the second half . ’ |
| 13 | He had the roads to Ruthyn and Denbigh under his eye from this eyrie , and Mold was not too far for a raid if the weather and the omens were good ; but since his active autumn of last year he had contented himself with holding and consolidating , and swooped down in the occasional raid along the border only to keep his hand in for greater things if the season should indicate the necessity . |
| 14 | The floor , laid down between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , is now largely roped off from the thousands of tourists who visit the basilica each month . |
| 15 | The curriculum laid down for the first time what pupils should learn in 10 subjects . |
| 16 | The team will play to the rules laid down for the 1992 World Cup . |
| 17 | This is not true of Cramlington , where the basic development programme laid down in the early 1960s has continued , with only two significant changes relating to the use of industrial land and the role of the shopping centre development . |
| 18 | Sick leave will be granted under the terms laid down in the Civil Service Pay and Conditions of Service Code . |
| 19 | The Trust is fortunate that its regional structure was conceived and laid down in the 1971 Act of Parliament . |
| 20 | However , the present author is one of those who has doubts as to how far this possibility would be used : the protocol on Social policy refers to continuing ‘ along the path laid down in the 1989 Social Charter ’ ( also signed by eleven Member States ) . |
| 21 | We suggest that the procedure laid down in the Environmental Protection Act for registers under parts I and VI of the Act could be used in this situation . |
| 22 | This example of evaluation is related to the parameters laid down in the first part of the chapter . |
| 23 | The current machinery broadly follows the framework of collective bargaining laid down in the 1980 Workers ' Statute . |
| 24 | The test of obscenity laid down in the Obscene Publications Act 1959 derives from the common-law offence of obscene libel , which rests on |
| 25 | There is not the space here for a detailed examination of the regime laid down in the 1981 Act and the Education ( Special Educational Needs ) Regulations 1983 , as amended . |
| 26 | ‘ Friends of Killynure ’ fearing that , Killynure House will be closed despite claims that the present home subscribes fully to the criteria laid down in the consultative document for the provision of residential care for elderly people , now appeal to the fast growing community of Carryduff and surrounding areas to support the fight for the retention of the home by signing a petition against closure . |
| 27 | She observes that the prisoner is following a prohibition laid down in the Old Testament , but that a rabbinical ruling had allowed Jews to eat in the camps on Yom Kippur in order to stay alive . |
| 28 | As early as 1524 , Henry had given up all hope of Catherine bearing another child , and by the time he became infatuated with Anne Boleyn two years later , he had already begun to convince himself that his wife 's failure to give birth to a son who survived infancy was a sign that his marriage to his brother 's widow was sinful , in that it had broken the laws concerning affinity laid down in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus ( chapter 20 : verse 21 ) . |
| 29 | When it comes to crime and punishment , the penalties laid down in the Old Testament for offences against the person are more severe than for offences against property . |
| 30 | Sailors in the US Navy of the 1920s who returned from leave with more than they bargained for after dallying with the local ladies faced a set medical routine laid down in The Medical Annual : |