Example sentences of "down several [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 He turned down several questions concerning his past activities on the Continent , saying they could affect 16 current libel actions .
2 He told her to fetch a pencil and paper and when she brought them scribbled down several sentences in capital letters .
3 Going down several inches I came upon some links of chain .
4 Today , while Maudie was filling a grocery order to the delivered by hand , he had decided to amuse him self by trying to clamber up the shelves , and succeeded in pulling down several tins of treacle .
5 It is hard to be sure about the year the photograph was taken , since the monuments of both Pahlavis were pulled down several times , whenever the occasion presented itself to the people . ’
6 He had been let down several times , they had done all sorts of things without asking him , and sometimes he only found out what they 'd been up to when the papers rang for comment .
7 He said relationships between inspectors and schools have broken down several times .
8 He had to put it down several times .
9 The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor .
10 Bernard was happy to drive up and down several times in a week , but Laura felt the need for a base .
11 This is held over the blocked plug hole and worked up and down several times to force water down the waste pipe .
12 She should n't have to do that and she has narrowly avoided being knocked down several times herself . ’
13 I mean these people , there 's things like throwing broken milk bottles , throwing milk bottles into peoples yards , removing bicycles , picking up my bicycle , as it happens , and throwing it down several times , erm going down the streets playing a sound system full volume at two o'clock in the morning , which generally left people feeling they did n't know what was happening .
14 Tired , too : she lay awake at night , thinking , and came down several mornings so pale that Auntie Lou wanted to go to the chemist and buy her a tonic .
15 In some places the peat was only a few feet deep whereas in others it went down several yards .
16 The Patents Act 1977 lays down several requirements which must be satisfied before a patent can be granted and , furthermore , certain things are specifically excluded from patentability .
17 The controversial Middlesbrough operation closed down several weeks ago .
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