Example sentences of "it [vb past] down [art] " in BNC.

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1 Look at the decision of the Exchequer Chamber how we may , it laid down a new principle .
2 It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) .
3 It crept down the columns that the place we were to attack was a village called Neuve Chapelle .
4 This manifested itself quite dramatically on a few occasions when , the holding screws having sheared , the rail curled up behind the tank as it moved down the slope .
5 It coasted down the mud walls and sploshed into the channel .
6 No on when it came down the bag missed the hanger instead of one bit going each side of the hanger so that the clothes were inside
7 It poured down a cataract which cleansed the ground of every deadly device .
8 As the garrison watched him from the shelter of the verandah they could tell that the rain was having a bad effect on him ; he clearly did not like the way it beat on his head and shoulders raising a fine spray ; nor did he seem partial to the way it poured down the neck of his shirt and coursed down his trouser legs .
9 It was this example that the AfDB had in mind when , in 1990 , it turned down the Cameroon road project .
10 In 1974 , it turned down an offer to join New York City 's Cultural Institutions Group , comprising those institutions receiving city funds for their operations .
11 fix your diary , a lot of you were n't here last week , oh by the way P C is er coming along with a film , it broke down the other week , you all enjoyed the talk so I do hope you come along to see the film , it only takes about twenty minutes and it 's on er security , you know , it 's for your own benefit
12 There have been an enormous series of changes over the last ten or fifteen years , and maybe some school teachers would be glad if it slowed down a little bit to make their life a little easier , I do n't know .
13 The desert boiled around his lorry while it rumbled down the slope .
14 There was no roof and the rain that had fallen in the night left dark stripes where it trickled down the greasy surface of the cows ' rumps .
15 She nodded , spilling juice down her front so that it trickled down the pop star 's face .
16 Its real blessing , of course , was that it kept down the numbers of mice and rats .
17 For instance , it kept down the direct cost of media to the consumer .
18 This was not what English food exporters wanted but , as it kept down the cost of provisioning the sugar plantations , it was supported by the sugar industry in England .
19 And that looked pretty funny like and it fell down a couple of days ago and maybe a pretty while afore that I du n no .
20 Suddenly , the grass around the den began to rustle and clumps of it fell down the bank .
21 This regime , however , did not always guarantee a satisfactory result , as in the case of the tower he added to Wroxton church , Oxfordshire ( 1747–8 ) , the top stage of which rapidly collapsed — as Walpole pointedly reported : ‘ Mr Miller … unluckily once in his life happened to think rather of beauty than of the water-tables , and so it fell down the first winter ’ — but that does not seem to have affected his popularity .
22 My speech was directed at Karen Parsons , and whatever reservations you or I may have about it , I can assure you it went down a treat with its target audience .
23 It went down a treat with the matrons in safe seats like South-west Surrey .
24 But it was worse before , after I had a shower it went down a bit , but it was really red and .
25 Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see .
26 So every night he put the snake through the air-vent , and it went down the bell-rope on to the bed .
27 Handing him one of the cans , she drank from her own , and coughed as it went down the wrong way .
28 She stood in a large yard with a glass of white wine in her hand and it spilt down the front of her red dress when she jumped at the banging noise of a firework .
29 According to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee , the Bank of England failed to discharge its supervisory duties before it shut down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International in July , 1991 .
30 They followed the car as it tore down the M4 , finally reaching Bristol .
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