Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] down [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bites generally occur when someone has sat down in woodland , bracken or heather , unaware that they are close to or on an adder . |
| 2 | In tracing the antiquity of Langridge we find that this manor has come down to Robin Wood via Henry Golding , Barber , Leveson , Whornes , Watson , Melford and Roger Bavent who held it with John de Langereche and finally back to Adam de Bavent during the reign of Edward I. Robin Wood died 14th July 1738 and is buried in Hailing Church . |
| 3 | It has come down to personalities and Julia is very disturbed by it all . |
| 4 | One day Jesus said to his friends : I am the Bread of Life I am the living Bread which has come down from heaven Anyone who eats this bread Shall live for . |
| 5 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 6 | Williams could also be on the mark with Capricorn Note in the other 450 metres open , though Dawn Milligan 's latest acquisition , Valentinos Joy , which has moved down from Scotland , trialled in 26.60 secs ( going 30 fast ) . |
| 7 | These days PCs are to be had for half that price , which has dragged down in turn the prices obtainable for software . |
| 8 | Vernon Russell , the head/wine waiter , is a Londoner who married a local woman and has settled down in Knutsford . |
| 9 | They are fed on drugs and despatched by their master with golden daggers to kill whomever he has marked down for destruction . ’ |
| 10 | But I suppose the old house has pulled down under pressure and built on now but that was the only house going up through there in them days . |
| 11 | PLAYGROUP organiser Pat Brown has cut down on holiday postcards — by taking all her neighbours away with her . |
| 12 | Mrs Jean Storrow has stepped down as secretary of the Ryedale branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England after 15 years . |
| 13 | Since 1985 , he says , the number of MIPS in each machine has increased by 35% each year , but the price per MIPS of large systems has gone down by 15% . |
| 14 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 15 | But Bob Champion 's immediate duties after his victory included the obligatory press conference , and his words there sum up why the 1981 Grand National has gone down in history not only as one of the most emotional races ever run , but as perhaps the most inspirational : |
| 16 | Neville Chamberlain has gone down in history , either as the politician who was duped by Hitler , or as a shrewd statesman who was playing for time , so Britain could re-arm . |
| 17 | She has gone down in history with this quote when she spotted a likely-looking toy boy at a celebrity bash . |
| 18 | I 've asked them as well and this might take them into the second week er to start with their pupils process on a Wednesday morning whereby in each classroom there would be a me master year plan even if it means they have to buy four and divide it up but I su I suggest that I would do something , you know , produce one and on that they will write pertinent to the the form to the form er and continue to add on that over , you know as and when it 's relevant er , dates for completion of course work , it might be module testing etcetera and I 'm going to ask at briefing that any anything that a teacher has put down for children , it might be just you know Mi Mr x's group is mentioned at briefing so they can write down what 's pertinent to them and therefore |
| 19 | The British government has backed down under pressure from the House of Lords over a controversial proposal that would have given the Secretary of State for Education formal responsibility for the way in which universities are run ( see Nature 362 , 275 ; 1993 ) . |
| 20 | PREMIER John Major has backed down from promises to stop Civil Service time servers being rewarded through the honours system , say No 10 sources . |
| 21 | 200 yds later , keep on main track as it bends left down to lochside . |
| 22 | I wo n't be the only person from East Anglian that 's come down to London over the weekend to shop , to stay with relatives or friends and take advantage of London 's shopping . |
| 23 | she 's laid down in front of that fire with her tummy warming through . |
| 24 | to get together and communicate that because it 's set down as target you 've got to do it so you will , you will set the time aside where it 's easy enough |
| 25 | Me memory do n't work any more , it 's shut down for Christmas . |