Example sentences of "down [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So Morag when she came down , came down for the whole week . |
| 32 | But in the country as a whole , the number of skiers was down for the third year running , and was no higher than 12 years ago ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 33 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 34 | The last time this happened I just managed to catch a glimpse of his two black eyes , going down for the third time , before I landed him . |
| 35 | We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time . |
| 36 | The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Battling Dave Cannon sprayed a whole trailer-load of the cow muck over a council building after plans for his retirement bungalow were turned down for the fourth time . |
| 42 | As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults ! |
| 43 | Its from the water to the racetrack for our action round-up this week … the Oxfordshire based jaguar racing team have been at Silverstone shaking down for the 24 hour race at Le Mans which fires into action next weekend … |
| 44 | A 1–0 result that should settle us down for the coming weeks especially with Liverpool and Arsenal back to back . |
| 45 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
| 46 | But this also breaks down for the same reason and so we resolve the problem by taking what is valid from thesis and antithesis to form a synthesis . |
| 47 | It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues . |
| 48 | Marr watches ‘ Ouija Board ’ go down for the last time |
| 49 | AN ERA ends today when the shutters come down for the last time at the Owen Owen store in Liverpool . |
| 50 | But despite the handicap Essex made a terrific fight of it and only went down off the penultimate ball . |
| 51 | The SS Samtampa went down off the Welsh coast in a terrible storm exactly 45 years ago . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | 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 |
| 55 | At the church , note the direction of route which proceeds down between the two lakes and then keeps half left towards a barn and which is to left of and below distant tower of Preston Capes church . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | ‘ You 've always been marked down as the non-violent type . |
| 58 | The toll in what will go down as the worst rioting in US history is incomprehensible . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |