Example sentences of "and [art] [noun] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy threw the sticky grain up into the air and the pigeons swooped down after it . |
| 2 | The water is contained in a clear plastic tank and the steam comes down the thick tubes from the tank to the iron . |
| 3 | Well , the two bumped into each other and the child fell down . |
| 4 | You need them when you are forming a company or acquiring premises and the law lays down that you must follow procedures . |
| 5 | She screamed wildly , and the piddle poured down her throat . |
| 6 | She had talked of a sex scene when she was on Wogan , but he assumed it would be something more romantic — a magnolia bud of a tit peeping from beneath bed linen as she held out her arms to her lover and the lights went down at the end of the play . |
| 7 | ‘ Barmen all over the world acquired a fair percentage of my money , ’ Jimmy regrets ‘ And the rest went down the plughole with various business ventures . ’ |
| 8 | They went back for chairs and then the laird , the factor , and the minister sat down weightily , like judges . |
| 9 | The presentation is crisp and the topics broken down into easily comprehensible parts : every page tells a story and does it in such a delightful way that the reader is led on through the book . |
| 10 | He says there was shooting and rockets and the houses burnt down . |
| 11 | Sit down , she said and the girls sat down thankfully feeling that the only lesson they really enjoy that weather would be swimming lesson . |
| 12 | By midday the Common had been turned over with meticulous care , the pools dragged and the frogmen sent down . |
| 13 | This meant testing had to be done frequently and the waters closed down as a precaution once the blooms appeared . |
| 14 | During the summer months hordes of visitors regularly congregate there to eat and drink at their leisure on the paved terrace between the mellow sandstone walls of the inn itself and the river 's edge , where many sit on the low stone parapet and look below them through the clear , greenish water at the mottled dark-brown and silvery backs of the carp that rise to the surface to snap up the crisps and the crusts thrown down to them . |
| 15 | It also includes the skills of using books , such as using the contents and the index to track down the topics required . |
| 16 | For the CNAA itself there was also the problem of the transitional situation in which the new BEd degree would run in parallel with the existing certificate courses , and the Committee laid down that ‘ the new BEd must be established as an award of degree standard , distinct from the Certificate course which it is intended to replace ’ . |
| 17 | It was tight above , with a pale pink " vee " for modesty in the front , and the back cut down to the coccyx , with another little " vee " there too . |
| 18 | On the first day , Wisting 's sledge suddenly stopped , and the back went down . |
| 19 | Finally she was backed into a corner by the door , the horse guarding any escape route and the man looking down at her with dark , fathomless eyes . |
| 20 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 21 | But will John Major and the Government go down with the sun-Saturn boat or be swept away by the sun-Pluto tidal wave on the 14th ? |
| 22 | He wisely asked for the downward transition after a circuit and the mare came down to trot , threw her head up briefly and then rounded again . |
| 23 | The man and the crocodile settled down to watch the film , then during the interval , the crocodile got up to go to the toilet . |
| 24 | I took a sip and the warmth went down inside me . |
| 25 | Various groups broadly sympathetic to the LTTE , which had formed the EDF alliance [ see parties above ] and won 13 parliamentary seats in the 1990 elections , boycotted parliament after a ceasefire between the government and the LTTE broke down in mid-1990 . |
| 26 | There was a flogging and the incident died down . |
| 27 | The basic idea of electrolysis is that an electric current passes through some liquid , in Tanberg 's case this was water , and the liquid breaks down into its constituent elements ( in this case , hydrogen and oxygen ) . |
| 28 | Then my Cid alighted when he had said this , and the ladies knelt down before him , and kissed his hand , and wished him long life . |
| 29 | Two wyverns fell on the same night and after the Emperor 's death the aerial attacks gradually subsided and the siege settled down into a protracted stalemate . |
| 30 | Mr Hollins and the Hare-woman coming down again . |