Example sentences of "down [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another disruption to the troubled plant 's operation , Kozloduy 's second reactor was shut down for six days in early January after an escape of radioactive material from the central circulation pump . |
| 2 | It is correct for most of the chapter with unc taken as a constant but breaks down for ferromagnetic materials , which will be discussed in Section 3.11 . |
| 3 | He strolled up and down for five minutes then , on the dot of ten , dropped the fat envelope through the letter-box of the apartment-house . |
| 4 | She wanted to wash her face and hands in cold water , if possible to lie down for five minutes . |
| 5 | Mum will you sit down for five minutes . |
| 6 | to sit down for five minutes after the tea , no the other one was , is that the biggest one ? , thanks , there you are |
| 7 | So I 've got time to sit down for five minutes before we go out ai n't I ? |
| 8 | I could n't lie down for five weeks ! |
| 9 | The biggest programme faces Foggo , who is down for 11 events , including her Olympic races of 400m and 800m freestyle , but she is unlikely to compete in them all . |
| 10 | Anyone sitting down for extensive periods ( as we all had to do in our school days ) would have to tense many of the body 's muscles in order to sit up straight . |
| 11 | Because I was at home , we sat down for two hours and talked it through . |
| 12 | They said I had to lie down for two hours because I was going to be groggy , but I thought Fred would be worried . |
| 13 | Then slow the pace down for two minutes before hiking it up again . |
| 14 | And why is why is going upside down for two minutes twice a day gon na make it grow again ? |
| 15 | I must sit down for two minutes , Jim . |
| 16 | Michael Winner , on whose original story Likely Lads TV writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais based their script , had discovered , while studying at Cambridge University , a legal loophole that meant that ‘ borrowing ’ bicycles from his college to get to the office of the student newspaper Varsity , which he edited , did not constitute theft , although he was gated and sent down for two weeks . |
| 17 | two sixty , if you 've got a bad phone it used to drag the paging down for all others , where if you 've got paint in the socket |
| 18 | The grant was broken down for individual lines , as with the pre-1974 British system ( RENFE 1984a : 55–7 , 82 ) . |
| 19 | Madam Speaker in view of the fact that the real value of pensions has gone down for many years now following the break . |
| 20 | The numbers may need to be scaled down for many readers from sending 100 to sending twenty , but a growing group of churches from all denominations and streams want to do this . |
| 21 | This type of information used to be held on an IBM mainframe computer , but this closed down for financial reasons . |
| 22 | ‘ Mr Forman has decided to step down for personal reasons . |
| 23 | During his two years in charge , he was responsible for the replacement as manager of Billy Bingham by Gordon Lee , stepping down for personal reasons after a comparatively short spell . |
| 24 | avoid sitting down for long periods |
| 25 | Avoid sitting down for long periods without a break . |
| 26 | This can be broadly broken down for descriptive purposes as a program staff of 11 , and a support staff of 4 . |
| 27 | ‘ After all , he managed to keep his head down for 14 years . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I feel that the trading standards officers have exceeded their authority by requiring Mr Wilson to conform with standards laid down for new stations and not established premises . ’ |
| 29 | Put cutlery in the basket with the handle down for best results . |
| 30 | The agile and fleet-footed Salmond showed little sign of the calf injury sustained in a recent football match and which required 18 stitches , but unfortunately only the two debutants , Love ( 14 ) and Stuart Kennedy ( 10 ) , gave the Arbroath player any support , the last five wickets going down for 32 runs . |