Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] down [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took my dreams down to breakfast : I 'd scribble while eating , like an Inspector from the Good Bed-and-Breakfast Guide . |
| 2 | To cut my expenses down from £30,000 to £750 ( by carrying my own bag and staying in youth hostels . ) |
| 3 | ‘ I believe the Breadalbane men were up in arms against their commanders down at Glasgow a few years back . |
| 4 | The geese arrived with a bow wave that surged over the nomes ' feet , and arched their necks down towards Shrub . |
| 5 | Around a surrealistic voice sampled from some US TV slot ( where a female patient is explaining her habit of grinding her teeth down to stumps in her sleep ) and a garbled vocal , Therapy ? build up a wall of solid playing that only they can eventually tear down . |
| 6 | Companies generally take their guests down to Sunsail 's Port Solent base near Portsmouth in the evening , give them dinner and put them up in a hotel . |
| 7 | Some girl 's going out with a boy , he zipped her tent up over them and she was so shocked she pulled her trousers down by accident . |
| 8 | Prehistoric and Roman tracks were duly appropriated by drovers from the Highlands , bringing their cattle down for sale in the Lowlands and , when the two nations were at peace , in England . |
| 9 | The director put their problems down to Streisand 's insecurity . |
| 10 | They were not the only respondent of the survey who identified another clear advantage of headhunting , especially for the most senior positions : that staff who were prepared to move jobs actually prefer to be headhunted , rather than face the time-consuming task of ploughing through advertisements or the slightly demoralising task of putting their names down with agencies . |
| 11 | They did not seem entirely happy , to Esther , but Esther put her suspicions down to jealousy . |
| 12 | And I used to listen to that kind of flattery which all too often can drag the most doughty warriors from their heights down to hell itself . |
| 13 | Each boss took a £10,000 cut bringing their wages down to £58,000 . |
| 14 | They crossed the beaten track , dodging between the heavy-wheeled carts , and led their horses down to London Bridge and into the welcoming warmth of the Piebald Horse tavern . |
| 15 | And then they sent their students down from Edinburgh University |
| 16 | The pepper pot analogy kept coming back to Raymond Cusick as he began sketching his ideas down onto paper . |
| 17 | Although he is a thoughtful person , who loves to put his ideas down on paper in the form of articles for such august publications as the Harvard Business Review , he suspects that labels are attached to management practices in hindsight rather than as objectives executives set out to master . |
| 18 | On the morning of Midsummer Day , after a blessing accompanied by a holy relic of St Columba carried in the Monymusk Reliquary , Bruce threw all his forces down upon Edward 's . |
| 19 | The sight of Egbert brought his thoughts down to ground . |
| 20 | To be fair , there are some sharpish lines , such as Frye 's indignant response to being told to keep his expenses down to £300 a week : ‘ But I spill £300 a week . ’ |
| 21 | Sam crashed his gears down to second as his decrepit car met a slight hill . |
| 22 | Lawrence added : ‘ It was important not to let our fans down at Molineux . |
| 23 | For orders over £45 ( excluding p&p ) , we are giving away FREE of charge a 20cm/8in Chinese carbon steel chopper for cutting your ingredients down to size , worth over £5 . |
| 24 | ‘ We shall get our friends down from London with the fish . ’ |
| 25 | Just spend five minutes putting your thoughts down on paper . |
| 26 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |