Example sentences of "and [verb] down [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sat with our backs against the trig point and gazed down like Gods on the coastal plain of Thassos . |
| 2 | To summarize , the organic compounds found in cells are built up and broken down by enzymes . |
| 3 | Having been synthesized it has to be transported to the part of the cell in which it is required ; there it will remain for its lifetime of hours , weeks or months until it is due for renewal , when it is pulled out of place in the cell and broken down by enzymes as quickly as it was previously synthesized , its building blocks ( the amino acids ) being recycled in the synthesis of other proteins . |
| 4 | The 220 guests enjoyed set-dancing , complete with caller , to ‘ Rosie Lea and the Strainers ’ , and sank down on hay-bales to eat supper . |
| 5 | And cut down on crisps , salted meat , salted fish and processed canned foods . |
| 6 | Jed left the expressway at the Baker Park exit and cut down through houses of clapperboard and dull red brick . |
| 7 | This descends the south flank and is initially rough , but reaches a clear path that winds round Fionn Loch and leads down in surroundings that become idyllic . |
| 8 | Either going or coming one should cross the Athos peninsula and look down into monasteries on the Holy Mountain that no female eye may otherwise see . |
| 9 | A TERRIFIED youngster was chased and run down by teenagers on a motorcycle as he played with friends in a park . |
| 10 | the starting up and slowing down of things . |
| 11 | " The Meeting have taken it into Consideration the Complaints which every member of this Meeting have now stated , that their Dykes and Inclosures are very much Damaged and broke down by passengers assuming to themselves a right to take Cross and Short Cuts thro' Inclosures … |
| 12 | The large-scale hunting of wildlife and cutting down of trees are alien to the African . |
| 13 | It 's a neat cheat for filling up — and cutting down on calories . |
| 14 | Enter lively atoms of uranium-235 , soon stirred up by Punk-neutrons and slowed down by Mods . |
| 15 | In their new school , their mother says , the Dungworth boys are ‘ very happy ’ taking spelling tests once a week and sitting down at desks . |
| 16 | any motor vehicle standing on a part of a road specially set aside for the parking of vehicles , or as a stand for hackney carriages , or as a stand for public service vehicles , or as a place at which such vehicles may stop for a longer time than is necessary for the taking up and setting down of passengers where compliance with this regulation would conflict with the provisions of any order , regulations or byelaws governing the use of such part of a road for that purpose ; |
| 17 | Recruits were forced to march along dusty tracks on their knees , packs on their backs , caps held above their heads ; they were woken and made to hop on the spot , half-naked and loaded down with sandbags , for two to three hours . |
| 18 | Whole communities were being , so to speak , lifted out of the mother country and planted down in villages already prepared for them , even down to food in the larder . |
| 19 | Rubber and PVC liners can be stretched across the excavation and weighted down with rocks or paving slabs . |