Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] down [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Boy had to do now was not walk down those streets , but stand still and choose amongst their inhabitants , choose the right one to follow , the right one to lead him in the next stage of his journey or wandering through the city . |
| 2 | The company does not break down divisional figures , but m.d . |
| 3 | The band had a policy of not turning down any gig offer , regardless of whether playing it would be profitable . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe a crafty old head would say , ‘ I 'm not going down that wing again ’ , but not Lee . |
| 5 | The High Court in Edinburgh does not lay down sentencing guidelines , and in a case in 1987 ruled that the practice of giving a discount for a plea of guilty was objectionable , because it involved offering an accused person an inducement to plead guilty early , and disabled the judge from exercising his discretion fully and freely in any particular case . |
| 6 | I take that view because the point has never been decided by this court or in the House of Lords and , as I have explained above , this court , in considering whether private corporations can sue for libel at common law , has not laid down any principle which is conclusive of the point raised in this case . |
| 7 | And they says , Oh well we 're not coming down that area then to visit you . |
| 8 | An MEP has made the point that the Parliament has simply not put down enough roots for it to be realistic to expect it to increase its powers . |
| 9 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have been careful not to lay down specific periods for the bids to come in , because , as I have said many times , it may take longer for some management-employee buy-outs to be lodged than others . |
| 10 | Schroeder however does appear to equate unreasonableness with oppression but it is suggested that it was not laying down any principle to that effect : it so happened that on the facts in that case unreasonableness and oppression both existed . |
| 11 | I know it 's difficult , I know the City is highly congested and we ca n't plough down beautiful buildings in order to make better roads and so on , and that is n't what we want to do . |
| 12 | Why ‘ psychic detective ’ Nella wo n't track down vanished peer |
| 13 | You ca n't see down that part of the cloister leading off from the chapel into the convent . |
| 14 | It does n't lay down rigid guidelines to be followed , it just suggests erm penalties for average offences committed by first offenders of average means , and it provides a starting point for magistrates to think about . |
| 15 | If only we had n't cut down those trees the view would be better . |
| 16 | well I 'd go along with that but what I was saying was I , I thought you might become more confrontational and if you were then we 'd 've got into a bit of a tennis match there and but then you did n't go down that route , that 's what I 'm saying , you did n't actually go down that cos if you had 've done we 'd 've got nowhere |
| 17 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 18 | I 'm afraid I ca n't come down this Christmas as I 've arranged to have Christmas dinner with a friend . |
| 19 | And , after all , Rob was safe ; he did n't pull down any stars for her , he was simply pleasant company not to be taken too seriously . |
| 20 | That woman canes the girls , and the man birches the boys , and sometimes they ca n't sit down all day . |
| 21 | Downing Street could n't turn down this gift horse for fear of offending the President but at the same time , they had nowhere for him to go so since March , Maxat , a champion racehorse , was stuck in these Turkmen stables waiting impatiently , getting flabby and fractious . |