Example sentences of "[vb infin] down at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , they will break down at the end of the black hole 's life when its mass gets very small . |
| 2 | But a bowler who does not break down at the end of every other over and who can finish each season with an average around the 25 mark would be worth his weight in gold now . |
| 3 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 4 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 5 | But Pat remembers him saying to various children : ‘ Why do n't you lay down at the bottom of the swimming pool for half an hour ? ’ |
| 6 | The dog leaped at the closest man who , encumbered with carbine and sword , could not cut down at the beast , then Sharpe 's mare slammed into the Frenchman 's horse and the big sword slashed down at the Dragoon . |
| 7 | Lenin decreed the taking of hostages from villages along the rebels ’ line of march and instructed local party leaders to ‘ cut down at the root ’ any evidence of sympathy with the rebels on the part of the population . |
| 8 | Jinny found some nearer the top , in the open , where she could stand and peer down at the cottage . |
| 9 | ‘ If he was he would sit down at the negotiating table with us . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Do sit down at the table , ’ she said to the rude young man . |
| 11 | If one did not sit down at the table there would be a gap , an empty space that would spoil the symmetry of the host 's table . |
| 12 | And eventually they told us to go upstairs and sit down at the table . |
| 13 | To that representative of the religious élite who by his bland statement , ‘ How happy are those who will sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God ! , ’ revealed that he counted on a reserved seat , our Lord told the parable of the Great Feast . |
| 14 | Write about one main incident or object ( Chekhov said you could select anything you saw and write about it , but do n't sit down at the typewriter before the idea has gelled in your mind . |
| 15 | Every year , in late October , she would arrive with her annual accounts , and she and Nigel would settle down at the dining-table with a bottle of wine and go through them . |
| 16 | ‘ A football club does not close down at the end of a playing season . |
| 17 | The point I am making is that , from the viewpoint of scholarship , fundamentalism is dead , but it wo n't lie down at the grass roots level . |