Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [conj] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually the cargo is broken down and sold off , then the ship reappears with false papers reregistered under a Honduran or Panamanian flag of convenience . |
| 2 | When I looked out of the window and saw you creeping through the garden , I thought I 'd better come down and find out what you were up to . ’ |
| 3 | Responsibilities , I mean , it would have to be torn down and build up again it was in such a bad shape , it was really , I mean , terrible , it must of been , it was , it was man who lived in since the second world war , alright , so you get . |
| 4 | Moreover , when you have sat down and worked out your retirement income in detail , you may even be pleasantly surprised . |
| 5 | Two large motor horse-boxes were waiting for the horses , which were unloaded down and loaded up ramps . |
| 6 | This does not mean that reality should be watered down or glossed over . |
| 7 | Helicopters were used to provide an airborne relay station but if they were shot down or ran out of fuel , soldiers on the ground often had to resort to the GPO telephone system . |
| 8 | It was a complex language : not written down but handed down . |
| 9 | Motorists entering the core , are confronted by 30 km/ h signs and strong visual clues as to how to behave : surfaces change and comers are necked down and given over to non-traffic uses ( Figures 6.44 and 6.45 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been around too long to take anything for granted so when I saw which way the wind was blowing I just buckled down and got on with playing . ’ |
| 11 | The Prime Minister has , like Eden before him , become both bogged down and boxed in by one big issue at the expense of the general election mandate secured only the previous year . |
| 12 | Marketers interested in the development and introduction of new products will be particularly interested in the attitude of opinion leaders to these products , for their general market acceptance can be slowed down or speeded up by the views of such people . |
| 13 | Anyway , if you 're goin' to tea with the toffs you 'd better get scrubbed down and pick out some decent clothes . ’ |
| 14 | Children may make a fuss when the limits are set down and insisted on , but there is a great deal of evidence to show that children and teenagers realize their parents are firm because they care ( see page 116 ) . |
| 15 | The arrangements have been made so as to enable spectators to be SET DOWN AND PICKED UP AT THE SAME POINT in a city unfamiliar to them . |
| 16 | Most was melted down and shipped back to Spain . |
| 17 | As a student of these matters , surely the hon. Gentleman recognises that in , for example , the past five years , the peak age for offending for a young male has not gone down but gone up . |
| 18 | Not for Fergie creeping to her seat with her escort after the lights had gone down and slipping out again just before the final curtain . |
| 19 | Other studies too have described how mothers regularly cut down or miss out on meals in order to provide a better diet for their children . |
| 20 | And I know it 's difficult to get people motivated when they 've been hit down and hit down so often , er but and I do n't think that you could do er any great erm as as we said when we went into the flats , we did n't go in with any big , world shattering ideas of of causing a revolution or you know , of doing er putting on a big project or anything , it was actually to be with the people in their situation and gradually to help improve somehow , if we could . |
| 21 | Ron Letts was knocked down and run over by thieves at a scrap metal yard three months ago . |
| 22 | Now he 's slimmed down and laid back . |
| 23 | And the spirit of the exhibition continues long after the works are taken down and sold off . |
| 24 | The clothes lines were taken down and rolled up by the dustbins , together with the props . |
| 25 | The vehicle details were taken down and reported back to Holbaek immediately . |
| 26 | Sometimes we have taken an independent decision to shut down one of our plants and bought in tonnage from a competitor , sometimes they have shut down and brought in tonnage from us . |
| 27 | See that would have to be all darkened down that See that light bit of the wood , that 's got to be all darkened down and brought up The colours is all sort of you see , matching and that . |