Example sentences of "not [vb infin] down at [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 ‘ A football club does not close down at the end of a playing season .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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