Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Erm the Labour Party is absolutely furious that unemployment goes down in this country and they keep trying to say to the public that it 's all hooey and , and , and , and the figures are distorted etc. , etc. , The fact is unemployment is going down , we are overcoming the recession , er faster than any other member of the er European Community or the European union as it 's now concerned and , and these are the facts but having said all that , we on this side er certainly support a continuing strategy whether we 'll er have to continue spending money at this level , er I do n't know , hopefully er the , the recession will be overcome and the spending can be reduced , but the strategy we believe . |
2 | And in fact , when the river rises they it drops down onto that house , and the house next door . |
3 | Because she is doing what is clearly a test , the words she writes down in this list have no real context : she would probably not write in the course of a story " I heard a funny nose … " without recognising the error herself when she read it back . |
4 | However , because all the seismic stations have been placed on the near side the wave speeds down to this depth only reliably apply to the near side . |
5 | Shortly it reappears upon another set of metals , and bears down upon more trucks . |
6 | until this grows down past that bit . |
7 | Fitter Chris Colligan gets down to some steam cleaning |
8 | The speeches are short ( perhaps the school prize-giving metaphor breaks down at this point ) and the polished public school tones of the Synod have given way to nasal northern echoes . |
9 | However , even this breaks down in some cases — for instance , in the form of hypercholesterolaemia due to a low density lipoprotein receptor defect , the pathology is quantitative , and introducing a normal gene may improve the prognosis , even in adults in whom the disease is dominant . |
10 | erm we 're not gon na go mad knocking picture frames down in that room , it 's too much of a big job |
11 | Example ( 3 ) falls down in this respect in that it includes two different activities and outcomes : ‘ to draw up a plan ’ , and ‘ to execute it ’ . |
12 | The PLAYER is in the downstage corner still ROS comes down to that exit . |
13 | It all comes down to who holds the purse strings , and at the point when it comes down to that level , something has gone wrong . |
14 | runs down to these versions underneath . |