Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3 At 4 pm. her car engine starts playing up a bit so she slows down to 20km /h for the rest of her journey home , Answer these questions from your graph . |
| 2 | Vic goes down in football 's annals as the first international player to be chosen from the ranks of the 4th Division ( for Wales against Northern Ireland in Belfast on 22 April 1959 ) , but Palace fans should know that this was no freak selection , for Vic had impressed many with his splendid performances and was in a run of 143 consecutive League games with just a single absence for us . |
| 3 | Arguably this cuts down on women 's contact with other people . |
| 4 | At the end , Josey settles down with Eastwood 's then-girlfriend Sondra Locke , whose public split with him is reflected in Unforgiven by the death of Bill Munny 's wife , the influence who led him away from violence . |
| 5 | When Austin 's views are challenged , Petrey almost always comes down on Austin 's side ( the one obvious exception is that Petrey , unlike Austin , believes that speech-act theory is as relevant to literature , and to written language in general , as it is to spoken language ) . |
| 6 | Not , I mean , is the , when it comes down to food wi he 's a traditionalist . |
| 7 | For me it 's not even a matter of specific issues such as Aids and homelessness , it simply comes down to people 's relationships with each other . ’ |
| 8 | The King addresses him in verse to start with , but then comes down to Parolles ' level in prose , the medium in which Lafeu and Diana also address him , recognizing his inferior ethos ( All 's Well that Ends Well , V.iii.238ff . ) . |