Example sentences of "down the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jesus Christ , ’ he muttered , his glance trailing up and down the columns of print . |
| 2 | er and is that gon na become an increasing factor as , as we continue down the shortage of product . |
| 3 | General Carson laid down the slip of paper he had been studying and looked at the colonel seated across the table from him . |
| 4 | Even along this road , however , many of the old ‘ guilds ’ had become , in effect , the organizations of employing ‘ masters ’ — the craft status shifted to the economic status — and these were themselves in complex relations with the development of capitalist trade , which was breaking down the kind of autonomy from which the guilds , new and old , had derived their monopoly . |
| 5 | So Lemmy 's in the pub , arm-wrestling with Hulk Hogan when — ZANG ! — with a mighty kick , a titanium boot laced up with human intestines smashes down the door of rock . |
| 6 | Close inspection reveals that a strip of reverse grain timber has been laid down the centre in order to add strength — another old-fashioned idea and a good one , too . |
| 7 | Until now , at least publicly , the society has played down the level of anxiety ; it has resisted taking any action that could be seen as anti-government . |
| 8 | In relation to the tap and glass metaphor we can think of these as being something like a plunger that fits over the glass and which forces down the level of stress . |
| 9 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |
| 10 | Frankly I think from our colleagues in the conservative party should n't really be wasting our time here with these silly motions , erm what 's needed is if you 're gon na improve the housing situation in the city and in the country as a whole , we need to be allowed to use our capital receipts , all the ones we 've piled up , and we need to also inject money into the national economy to build new homes and incidentally to get the economy moving again and start bringing down the level of unemployment . |
| 11 | listen to your language helper as he reads down the whole of list A |
| 12 | The clock struck one and I went down the lunch in Hall . |
| 13 | Once all the steam is condensed a vacuum is formed under the piston and the piston is forced down the cylinder by steam from the boiler . |
| 14 | By contrast Marx and Engels saw the proletariat 's mission as breaking down the restrictions of capitalism which held back the full development of technology ; and they rejected as utopian any form of transition to socialism which was not brought about by a genuine ( and almost certainly violent ) social revolution . |
| 15 | All these signals would be sufficient to slow down the expansion of Dept . |
| 16 | By politicizing his text in this way Sukenick runs the risk of linking authorial production with political manipulation , but he regularly plays down the privilege of composition by including himself as a minor character within his narratives . |
| 17 | At the same time it plays down the dangers of pollution . |
| 18 | I had to force down the wave of nausea . |
| 19 | Then you tool down the aisles with trolley or basket , returning each can or packet to its rightful place . |
| 20 | But for the children running up and down the aisles in church or the yobs in leather jackets barging the queue at petrol stations , the elderly are n't so much objects of deference as obstacles to be pushed peremptorily aside . |
| 21 | ‘ My first year at the club was tough when we were down the bottom of Division Two , but this is the biggest challenge I 've faced . |
| 22 | In the 1950s , the elderly were described as ‘ passengers ’ , threatening to pull down the standard of living enjoyed by society as a whole ; they were a regressive element , dampening the ‘ initiative of youth ’ , and playing a conservative role in social and political life . |
| 23 | On Sept. 23 the federal government adopted a draft law laying down the modalities of partition and providing for the reallocation of the federal state 's property , institutions , debts and obligations between the two republics before Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 24 | The expert clause in the parties ' contract will be the only document likely to have a decisive effect , and then only if it lays down the procedure in detail , which many do not do . |
| 25 | Batting down the order at No. 8 , he scored 144 not out , which included a last-wicket stand of 80 in 35 minutes , his partner making only two of those runs . |
| 26 | Even the logistics involved in transporting journalists and television crews up and down the country by bus and plane and , on one day , over the Channel by catamaran , worked smoothly . |
| 27 | The articles of association of each company , or , in some cases the shareholders ' agreement , lay down the procedures for share valuation . |
| 28 | When they are low , the prices of recycled materials also decline ( chart 6 ) , dragging down the ratio of revenue to collection costs . |
| 29 | No outlet was provided and , once the leat was full , the water was allowed to overflow down the hillside via sluice gates or boards , raising the temperature of the frosted land to that of the spring water and encouraging the grass to grow early — again to help feed sheep and lambs in the early spring . |
| 30 | The traffic was light : the blue twinkle of a Mitchum magnet train on the Phobos-Byzantium run ; a little old Fargo slipping down the gradient from Longevity or Silverside , fresh vegetables for the Martians . |