Example sentences of "down [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a duty was a duty , a posting could not be evaded by a Major who had been turned down for promotion to Colonel . |
| 2 | Once he 's airborne bring him down into hand to hand combat once your cavalry have made contact . |
| 3 | He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors . |
| 4 | It had spent thousands of years being handed down from nome to nome without ever saying a word or lighting a light . |
| 5 | What I knew about the Legion was based on a series of rumours and pieces of misinformation passed down from recruit to recruit . |
| 6 | Even the duck used for Tai Bai Duck ( a dish handed down from generation to generation and named after the Tang dynasty poet Li Tai Bai ) despite being supplied by Cherry Valley , is , promises Jermey , authentic , because the company supplied much of China 's duck breeding stock . |
| 7 | He was aware that famous players of those roles had developed their own ways of interpretation and tricks , which were then handed down from generation to generation . |
| 8 | We want to see wealth and security being passed down from generation to generation . |
| 9 | Folklore has been passed down from generation to generation , some of it full of deep and obvious truth , some mere dogma of doubtful veracity . |
| 10 | There were unpaid , unqualified ‘ nurses ‘ , usually senior ladies of the dale who possessed all the medical folklore and herbal remedies handed down from generation to generation . |
| 11 | Another is that as gooseberry growing is one of those traditions which are passed down from generation to generation , and fathers were still able to pass their bushes on to their sons . |
| 12 | Shipbuilding skills have been handed down from generation to generation and now these proud men who helped to put the ‘ Great ’ into Britain are tossed aside because the Government does n't know how to get out of the hole it has dug . |
| 13 | What do they say , those bloody know-alls whose wisdom is handed down from generation to generation ? |
| 14 | Dyeing is considered a science , whose secrets are handed down from generation to generation , and when the dyer is working , only other dyers may speak to him . |
| 15 | Some of these rules are concerned with the different components which go to make up a traditional story — the kind of story which is orally handed down from generation to generation . |
| 16 | TRADITION ( SOCIAL ) — refers to the values , standards , beliefs , sentiments and , in general , the ways of thinking in a social group , which have been handed down from generation to generation . |
| 17 | It is not surprising that the skills of Chinese herbal medicine handed down from generation to generation are viewed with scepticism by many outsiders . |
| 18 | That 's right , a family thing , you hand it down from generation to generation |
| 19 | In fact , the problem seems to be determined genetically , which means that the tendency to hyperkinesis is passed down from parent to child . |
| 20 | These massive constructions of bamboo and paper , often passed down from year to year and re-covered for the next May festival by a new team , were far beyond the capacity of any individual flyer . |
| 21 | They scrape me down from head to foot — my torn clothes , my hands , my broken knees , the nose on my face . |
| 22 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 23 | We analysed these data ourselves , and found that many subject departments sent individuals or small groups to the library in connection with subject or project work , while others seem to have brought whole classes down from time to time . |
| 24 | The laws of mikva have been passed down from mother to daughter in a continuous chain from biblical times . |
| 25 | Songs and styles of singing are handed down from mother to daughter , unchanged over centuries or even millennia . |
| 26 | The report on the experience of the Birmingham Money Advice Centre ( Appendix III ) describes how the weekly credit caller can become deeply ingrained in a poorer family 's circumstances , perhaps even being passed down from mother to daughter . |
| 27 | It was in fact , a closed shop , and those working practices and skills were handed down from mother to daughter . |
| 28 | As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries . |
| 29 | The bone-setting power is often handed down from father to son . |
| 30 | This means that harem females are being passed down from father to son in a patrilineal fashion . |