Example sentences of "down [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We could have given you an introduction to Professor Vanchetti in Rome , ’ said Gervase Fairfax , who was Penelope 's other neighbour , ‘ but unfortunately he dropped down dead the other day . ’ |
| 2 | I was most willingly rescued and brought down manually the four flights of stairs . |
| 3 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
| 4 | The central character is so consistently developed that the audience take it for granted the house will fall down only a few weeks after he has started [ sic ] to live in it . ’ |
| 5 | Besides , the causes of some 60% of birth defects have yet to be discovered : it can not be assumed that all of them travel down only the female line . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ The plane touched down just a short distance before the runway itself . |
| 7 | The same general advice holds good : concentrate on following the flow of the argument and jot down just the key points within a coherent structure . |
| 8 | Damian ffrench-Farce , their ‘ brilliant , totally undiscovered ’ interior designer , scoured dozens of builders ' yards , hunting down just the right sort of town-house brick , thrown out in the course of demolishing other houses of similar vintage ; when the supply ran out , bricks were made specially for them by local craftsmen . |
| 9 | This cuts down both the necessary search and the number of candidates found to be allowable . |
| 10 | After we went down about a hundred yards , we had to take a spell for me to get used to the darkness underground because the small flame of the oil-lamp was n't showing enough light . |
| 11 | The Concorde post , which observers have unkindly suggested should disqualify the incumbent from any positions of responsibility in the future , was held between 1966 and 1970 by Sir James Hamilton , who holds down today a key position within the bureaucracy of the Department of Education and science . |
| 12 | I do n't know our , our , very rare we 'll ring em John was down well the same day as she dropped that little potty off for our Kay |
| 13 | Techniques like antisepsis ( developed by Lister [ 1827–1912 ] around 1865 ) , ‘ pasteurisation ’ or other methods of safeguarding organic products from the intrusions of microbes , and inoculation were at hand , and the arguments and results sufficiently palpable to break down even the entrenched hostility of the medical profession . |
| 14 | The curtains in the flat were drawn , cutting down even the poor light that remained from outside . |
| 15 | Oh , he was down here the other week , you know . |
| 16 | being the Chief Clerk and then turned left and down quite a long corridor , which in those days was erm shorned up with four by four timber posts because er , presumably they thought if the County Hall got a direct hit the ceiling might come down |
| 17 | ‘ She held down quite a high-powered job in London before she came to me . ’ |
| 18 | So I turned down quite a few sitcoms . |
| 19 | Now much of the rest of the stone of the building also dates from the medieval period but in fact in the nineteenth century the building er was very popular as a church and the vicar at the time decided that what he needed was more space and so they knocked down virtually the whole building apart from the tower and the east erm erm window and rebuilt it to put in the er gallery at the level that we 're standing here . |
| 20 | I go down there every other weekend to stay with my dad and stepmother . |
| 21 | So we 've been down there a few times but I said to you did n't I ? |
| 22 | K. M. I was on the Dingle Lane gate — Shell Mex place — and I 'd been down there a few months . |
| 23 | I 'll probably go gas , when they get gas down there the only thing that |
| 24 | He hung on until I came out and I was given embarkation leave or demob leave rather and I did n't even have a chance to have that , they wanted me down there so quickly , I think I came out of the forces one week and I was working down there the following week because was way past his retiring age . |
| 25 | So the man told him to be down there the same time next night and he returned . |