Example sentences of "down [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Torn down during the French revolution , little remains . |
| 2 | The irritating thing is , he could not be bothered to put the sandwich down during the whole scene , and when she surfaced , she found his lip dripping with tomato seeds . |
| 3 | The Prime Minister had his head down for the vast majority of the speech , assiduously following the whole of the 57 pages either to avoid the accusatory , glaring eyes of the Opposition or to check that his Chancellor did not deviate from the text . |
| 4 | As he pushed the nose down for the final approach , he extended down the undercarriage . |
| 5 | In 1749 for the first time a single system of tactics was laid down for the entire army , while in 1765 the Hofkriegsrath assumed the power to appoint to all ranks above that of captain and from 1776 an organized State military transport corps began to be built up . |
| 6 | So remember you hold it down for the right length and quickly take your hand off , as soon as you 've done it . |
| 7 | He is the only pianist I have ever heard who does not make Balakirev 's Islamey sound clumsy in places , who does not need to slow down for the middle section of Liszt 's Rhapsodie espagnole , and who can play repeated notes faster than a machine-gun can shoot bullets . |
| 8 | The opposition to Raybestos then appeared to die down for the following year , only to return with a vengeance in 1980 . |
| 9 | Pipes and cigarettes glowed in the darkness as we settled down for the six-hour passage . |
| 10 | The base , a tent camp which is operated by Adventure Network International , is in the process of being run down ready to close down for the Antarctic winter . |
| 11 | I put her name down for the local hospice without her permission , because although she defiantly insisted she did n't want anything to do with it , I thought things might change as she deteriorated . |
| 12 | His buddy did n't seem too concerned about that and reached down for the big gun . |
| 13 | Zipped up the inside , and with a squared off toe , it was the last word in futuristic chic that was to be adapted and toned down for the mass market . |
| 14 | So Morag when she came down , came down for the whole week . |
| 15 | If one suspect confesses and implicates the other , who does not confess , the confessor will go free as a reward for cooperation , while the partner is sent down for the maximum sentence , 10 years . |
| 16 | Another £100.000 was put down for the National Union of Journalists , despite its clear and well-known policy of not investing in newspapers because of the inevitable conflict of interest in its role as champion of higher wages for journalists . |
| 17 | The scarfing is very subtle and follows the natural grain of the wood almost perfectly , but I think it may be a little low down for the strengthening job it was designed to fulfil . |
| 18 | Thus , in the vital days before September 1939 , not only had prime arrangements been undertaken in connection with aircraft and tanks , but the organisation had been laid down for the ready assembly of ambulance trains and casualty evacuation trains and , through the Mechanical and Electrical Engineers ' Consultative Committee , which was formed in the abortive crisis of September 1938 , to advise the Railway Executive Committee on matters pertaining to Railway Workshops , rolling stock and electrical undertakings . |
| 19 | But despite the handicap Essex made a terrific fight of it and only went down off the penultimate ball . |
| 20 | The SS Samtampa went down off the Welsh coast in a terrible storm exactly 45 years ago . |
| 21 | Boy stood outside the window and imagined the things he might see inside this magazine , should he ever take it down off the high shelf and open it , perhaps in the privacy of his room or perhaps right there on the street at five o'clock . |
| 22 | After all the years in which we pressed British Rail to open the station and the bus company to allow buses to come down into Portlethen village , when the station was reopened , the bus companies suddenly decided that buses would come down off the main road and start a service to compete with British Rail . |
| 23 | Well here 's one man who is very definitely erm upside down about the whole thing , if I can just er tip him over a little bit there , could you , no I 'll try that one again will I |
| 24 | Tentatively , 23 August 1990 was marked down as the official day of opening , when Ceauşescu would address a quarter of a million loyal subjects from the balcony on the second floor . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've always been marked down as the non-violent type . |
| 26 | In Korea negotiations for an armistice began in the summer of 1951 , but became bogged down as the American nation , unused to anything but total success , grew weary of the struggle , which dragged on indecisively throughout the remainder of Truman 's Presidency . |
| 27 | But this idea of ‘ purity ’ as something that needs preserving , by others , and for others , is quite different from a purity which needs finding , indeed which must be searched for , struggled for , hunted down as the precious thing it is . |
| 28 | Clearly the pilot had not wasted time calculating an entry angle , but had bored down through the upper atmosphere as directly as he was able . |
| 29 | Dive down through the pellucid water and turn a boulder . |
| 30 | Restlessly , she rose again and continued on around the house , following a cool stone path that seemed to be sloping down through the lush growth of shrubs and trees . |