Example sentences of "we [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lay down the ground rules for creating a successful patio to suit all your needs |
| 2 | Over the past decade a sudden surge of research reports managed to answer the question of when people achieve a basic grasp of psychology : sometime in the fifth year of life we lay down the framework for generalisable inferences about the intentions of others . |
| 3 | As a church architect , I have visited , I believe , all the cathedrals in Europe — Chartres , Burgos , Canterbury , Cologne , Saragossa , Milano , Ely , Zagreb , Gozo , Rheims — ’ I continued to name them for some while as we tramped down the nave . |
| 4 | We took a two-hour tour of South London with Eva drinking Guinness and hanging out the window cheering as we passed down the Old Kent Road , stopping beside the famous site of Dr Lal 's surgery and the dance hall of love , where Mum met Dad and fell . |
| 5 | As we steamed down the Sound of Mull one fine afternoon , my No. 1 , Dave Scadding , who was a keen fisherman , noticed a flock of gulls screaming on the water ahead . |
| 6 | As we glissaded down the final snows to the hut , the summit of Mt Blanc was burnished by the setting sun and the Flammes de Pierre were flickering , true to their name . |
| 7 | I think when we slim down the Suffolk |
| 8 | As time was flying by , we headed down the coast , stopping at numerous beaches , finally reaching Disneyland and Universal Studios . |
| 9 | As we thundered down the runway , the ambassador asked : ‘ Do you think they weighed the khat properly ? ’ 'Almost certainly not , ’ replied the civil servant . |
| 10 | Oh well we d did n't know if we were supposed to be congregating with rest of the people , or what so we just wandered we wandered down the hall |
| 11 | Pamela suggests that we walk down the Prince of Wales Road to the Aegean Sea . |
| 12 | And I went er in the boat coming back er from Canada was far worse as the one going acro but we went to Boston and we stayed out in the harbour there and then we sailed down the coast into New York , which was a great sight . |
| 13 | We sailed down the reaches of the Thames and , standing in the bows , I saw the river through the eyes of Marlow in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , as a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea " . |
| 14 | And if we cut down the number of our operations — for the part he 's making it would n't be worth automating . |
| 15 | ‘ In the meantime I suggest we cut down the cross-referencing . |
| 16 | Therefore , in the test runs described in the next chapter we cut down the utterance length to no more than 10 words . |
| 17 | Our trucks had open sides and Marius , Vermulen and I clung to each other , faces buried in our hoods , as we churned down the slushy autoroutes , the speed of the trucks sending icy , sawing winds through us at seventy kilometres per hour . |
| 18 | But we we put down the I 've crossed out position number it is size , erm er we took this from another sheet |
| 19 | ‘ There is a long way to go before we break down the ‘ them up at Salisbury ’ attitude . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ There 's a long way to go before we break down the ‘ them up at Salisbury attitude ’ |
| 21 | Late in the morning Valeria suggested we should all go down and have breakfast , and as we came down the staircase we saw to our horror that her mother was waiting for us at the bottom . |
| 22 | Well I saw that pai , I saw the shop as , as we came down the Ayleston Road , near the terminus . |
| 23 | Sick of talk , we cycled down the green tunnel |
| 24 | Then , as we drove down the steep little hill we could see the sea glinting , for the coast at Frejus was about 12 miles distant . |
| 25 | We drove down the tarmac and out of the airport gates . |
| 26 | We drove down the Angel Bank skirting Ludlow , and then as we turned into Corvedale the sun came out and it cleared … |
| 27 | We trotted down the long flights of stairs and I followed her out through the front door . |
| 28 | The snow crunched a protest under the car wheels , as we turned down the country road which led to our home , thoughts of a hot cup of tea uppermost in our minds . |
| 29 | We turned down the offer of researching exactly how many men we 'd get to 3,000 feet of urinals , but allowing a couple of feet for each one , 1,500 men would make Wembley the tops for discriminating against women . |
| 30 | If the organ music swells this Christmas as we run down the lanes of childhood in search of sentiment or the values of yesterday , and if the early darkness on Christmas evening finds us replete and empty at the same time , maybe its because we have left the Josephs of this world alone in their silent day and all too silent night . |