Example sentences of "[vb past] down [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was forced to withdraw his dissolution , though only after more than two years of controversy , during which time the Council had gone about its business and drafted a number of decrees that restrained the power of the papacy , and laid down reforms throughout the Church . |
| 2 | These two requirements were first established by Greek playwrights and were later codified by the Académie Française ( 1635 ) when it laid down rules for the composition of any literary work . |
| 3 | This appears from the decision of the European Court of Justice in Zuckerfabrik Sûderdithmarschen A.G. v. Hauptzollamt Itzehoe ( Cases C 143/88 and C 92/89 ) , The Times , 27 March 1991 ( judgment delivered on 21 February 1991 ) where the court laid down conditions for the grant of a stay of execution of a national administrative Act based on a Community Regulation because of doubts on the part of the national court as to the validity of the Regulation ( see paragraphs 22–23 of the judgment of the court ) . |
| 4 | A meeting at the House of Commons between Maxton , Brockway , Campbell Stephen and McGovern of the ILP , and Pollitt , Gallacher , Kerrigan and Springhall of the Communist Party , laid down conditions for the continuance of the United Front . |
| 5 | A succession of senior ministers played down speculation about the leadership by denying the existence of divisions in the Cabinet over Europe and calling on MPs not to divide the party with talk of a leadership contest . |
| 6 | They crossed a bridge and came down steps to the water 's edge . |
| 7 | When the final Sunday dawned , John , Nora , and Sarah went to the early service at St. Martin 's Church in Trafalgar Square and walked down Whitehall to the site , arriving just after eleven . |
| 8 | On balance he 'd have preferred to have seen them take on a top world fast bowler to ease the new-ball burden on him — as indeed they intended before negotiations with Australia 's Craig McDermott broke down months before the start of the season — but sees at least one advantage in having a star batsman rather than bowler . |
| 9 | We tracked down Ranteallo in the most elegant of these structures , which he was sharing with some thirty family members , guests , and slaves . |
| 10 | He went down country with the Army , and there 's a big difference between there and up here — it 's not a place where economy is considered in the same way , so maybe he learned some bad habits , such as a tendency to alcoholic drink . |
| 11 | He took down volumes from the shelves , undid their clasps and , chattering like a child , pointed out the beauty of the calligraphy . |
| 12 | From within this perspective bishops and clergy lay down rules for the laity to follow in any given situation and the teaching of the church is seen as absolutely clear and devoid of problematic . |
| 13 | Existing agreements lay down guidelines for the maximum credit period and the minimum interest rate . |
| 14 | Place a glass of water or beer on your head and lay down flat on the floor and then stand up . |
| 15 | I sent one of my boys to the Guildhall , they sent down constables of the ward . |
| 16 | City 's miserable week was confirmed when with eighty two minutes gone , Steve Brown brought down Cowell in the area as he made a run for the by-line . |
| 17 | This meant that the District Officers ' opposition to the proposals of wildlife conservationists who wanted Masai land was just as uncompromising as their opposition to settlers ; and , then as now , the appearance of indifference to the interests of picturesque and harmless animals brought down odium on the heads of those presumed guilty of it . |
| 18 | Urgent repair work is being carried out at Pickering 's 19th century memorial hall after heavy rain brought down part of the ceiling . |
| 19 | AN official probe will be launched into allegations that British troops gunned down prisoners during the Falklands war . |
| 20 | Furthermore , on Jan. 5 Azerbaijanis reportedly tore down stretches of the 12-km-long border fence between Nakhichevan and Turkey . |
| 21 | In a further row , deputies from St Petersburg walked out of the chamber when Congress voted down ratification of the name change of Russia 's second city , formerly Leningrad . |
| 22 | I wished I could turn to stone , or put down roots like the spotted laurel and forever let the adjusting wind tweak and fiddle with my clothes to no purpose . |
| 23 | As in Wigston , few of the families that put down roots in the parish of Myddle during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had been there in earlier times ; the turnover of names between the 1370s poll tax returns and the subsidies levied in the reign of Henry VIII was equally remarkable in both parishes . |
| 24 | Grasshoppers three a-fiddling went , Alix hummed to herself , as she ran down Whitehall for the bus , swinging her shoulder bag in the cold , bright , showery , uncertain sun of late April . |
| 25 | He wrote down instances of the construction immediately after hearing it , supplementing this data source with material from broadcast speech and a limited amount of tape-recorded data . |
| 26 | It had started to snow and the thin white covering reflected the lights of the two police cars as they swept down Yorckstrasse towards the hotel . |
| 27 | So she washed down Gabriel on the day he first played an angel . |