Example sentences of "down [adv] [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The analogy of a gun breaks down badly when we come to consider intermediate targets as shown in the drawing . |
| 2 | I have a very vague idea of what this terrible crime is that I 'm trying to get to the bottom of , that you have rats in the basement of your best hotel , or you know , there 's a house falling down somewhere and you 've done absolutely nothing about a closing order , any of these kind of things , but I do n't know a lot about it . |
| 3 | Write down enough that you feel confident that if your mind blanks you 've got enough there to remind you what you want to say . |
| 4 | I put this down only because I have heard her daughter 's friends call her ‘ mannish ’ , and her own generation ‘ monstrous ’ . |
| 5 | but if you can think of some way to say that and put it down so that we put down something like four sentences on paper and a few examples . |
| 6 | This makes time appear to slow down so that we remember the details of an accident , such as a car crash , as though it occurred in slow motion . |
| 7 | Our home 's eight coconut support-trunks were planted upside down so that they continue , even in death , to draw moisture from the roof thatch down into the ground , where it belongs . |
| 8 | You must do all the inserts first and then copy down so that you end up with the right formula at the end of the day which is the C five , C eight . |
| 9 | They overtake you and then they slow right down so that you have to go oohooh and stop . |
| 10 | I 'll tell David when he comes down so that you do n't need to worry about whatever plans you 've made with him . |
| 11 | Two er requirements for the future that er seem to be er er desirable are stealth and what could be stealthier than the present generation of aircraft and secondly to prevent you having to go over your target you 're likely to be shot down so that you need a stand up weapon capability , er if the payload is somewhat limited can it still carry stand off weapons that are effective ? |
| 12 | that 's why she ca n't get the screw right down so and I doubt whether the woman in the shop will be able to do it , needs a bloke . |
| 13 | and then we carried straight on again but I wanted to get it done today , I did n't want to go back again weekend they want to get the carpets down inside and they 've got all the carpets there in the house , I mean it 's twenty eight foot long , twelve foot wide so erm we got the carpets in down and we 've got it in the house and it 's too big |
| 14 | Trade negotiations always look as if they were about to break down just before they succeed . |
| 15 | There are other signs that might lead you to believe that there 's things not as they might be , the legs may not be equal length particularly if only one is dislocated and that 's fairly obvious is n't it because the , the , the ball joint 's not in the socket and there 's a bigger gap so the leg hangs down longer and you 've all changed a baby have n't you and you see that they 've got little creases in the insides of their legs and across their buttocks , and those creases may not be a mirror matching they are normally , so those are clues . |
| 16 | No , I want you sitting down now before we begin . |
| 17 | much difference to the door , but at least it does n't flop down now and I do n't have to stick a bit of cardboard in . |
| 18 | You know I I I 've cancelled down before but you know in this like . |
| 19 | Well we 'll pop down , oh we ca n't pop down tomorrow unless we go before , get in the morning , before we go to work across to Steve 's , if it 's fine it 'll be a good walk over there |
| 20 | I 'm so damned tired after the drive down here that I doubt I 'll have the energy for anything more than sleep . ’ |
| 21 | And if a builder gon na go down there you say , Well look I 've got one down here but I 've got a prime slot |
| 22 | Cos if you leave d go the cord straight away the cord just goes shooting up there , the weight inside comes down here and you lose the cord and you have to take the whole lot p t apart in order to get the thing to work again . |
| 23 | down here and you 've got ta turn right at the |
| 24 | We 've both written about the riverbank down here as I have — so there 's a lot of connections . |
| 25 | Nobody puts references down here if they 've got any sense that are gon na give bad references . |
| 26 | I 've got some crusts down here if you want |
| 27 | A : It 's difficult to pin down precisely where you 've gone wrong without knowing what you typed in at the command line to begin restoring . |
| 28 | They they come down there but they have n't got enough oxygen to get up and so they got ta stay on this thing with this creature . |
| 29 | It looks as if there is a walk down there but we 've never been on it but tell you where you may be thinking of , you may be thinking of that walk that goes towards the erm adventure park at the other side of Buckfastleigh . |
| 30 | See , she 's got a single bed down there but we do n't let her sleep in it just she 's stopping in bed with us , cos no way am you know we might be sleeping here , petrol bomb might come through your window on a night when there 's a riot on . |