Example sentences of "down [pron] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like bees buzzing up and down my window pane , the instinct is too deep for such a creature to see or to reason that he is not getting the expected response . |
| 2 | Now I know there are some fish willing to feed I will cut down my feed rate to a dozen maggots only when I cast in . |
| 3 | With the hood down my summer sun bleached hair might give the wrong message ? |
| 4 | Like most of my generation , I had never known a war , had never had fear rammed down my throat time and time again like the older generation . |
| 5 | Did you put down my fuel bill for last month ? |
| 6 | My head is naively up there with incredible facts like the speed of light , the concept of millions of light years away , and so on , when Teddy traces his finger down my hip bone . |
| 7 | It 's only the bit of to stuffed down my ear hole . |
| 8 | ST HELENS are taking legal advice after the Rugby League turned down their compensation plea for injured Test centre Paul Loughlin . |
| 9 | National groups could only find outlets for their own beer by acquiring smaller companies and shutting down their brewing plant . |
| 10 | At the entrance was a table for a member of the local Assembly executive who checked people 's names and wrote down their identity card numbers as they came in . |
| 11 | They will therefore be willing to hire more labour ( move down their demand curve ) . |
| 12 | They threw down their fishing gear and ran as the motorcycle leapt over the embankment and crashed into the deep ditch some 15ft below . |
| 13 | Employers , by contrast , mistakenly thinking that real wages have fallen to , say , , attempt to move down their labour demand function to a position such as point C. Assuming that actual trading in the labour market is determined on the short side , the level of employment rises to . |
| 14 | Murrell , who was not going out with Gedge at the time , was surprised when the couple suddenly packed up , tore down their Wedding Present posters and left Leeds . |
| 15 | After walking in and setting down their pocket tape recorder , they soon reveal themselves as inarticulate and badly prepared and the whole encounter is punctuated with long , awkward silences . |
| 16 | Even so , prices are not expected to rise and companies such as John Laing , Barratt and Wimpey have already written down their housing land bank values by up to 20 per cent . |
| 17 | PRIME COMPUTER TO CLOSE DOWN ITS MINICOMPUTER MANUFACTURING BUSINESS |
| 18 | The BBC is to shut down its shortwave broadcasting facility at Daventry . |
| 19 | Following a decision earlier in the year to scale down its workstation business , ( UX No 368 ) Solbourne Computer Inc , Longmont , Colorado , has pulled the plug on its direct sales operations in Europe , claiming ‘ lack of business . ’ |
| 20 | However , what the net result of the activity has been is unclear , as DEC says it is now closing down its VLIW-on-Alpha work — having failed to enlighten us as to the reasons why — but , at the instruction level , it is thought that Multiflow 's trace compilers were being pressed into service to boost the speed at which the RISC could execute programmes . |
| 21 | Earlier this year WEKA decided to close down its UK publishing operation and a number of titles , appealing to a broad spectrum of business and hobby readers , were put up for sale . |
| 22 | Paramount closed down its London office in 1968 , declaring that ‘ we now feel that by coordinating and controlling our production activities in Hollywood we can effectively control a programme that will continue to draw from a talent pool all around the world . ’ |
| 23 | When Beardmore closed down its aviation department , Stieger formed the Monospar Wing Co Ltd , with Fred Crocombe , who had worked for Fairey , as Chief Designer , S/L Rollo de Haga Haig , A E L Chorlton and C W Hayward . |
| 24 | It has nibbled at the problem , closing down its fertiliser business after failing to sell it . |
| 25 | Wavetracer Inc , the Acton , Massachusetts-based manufacturer of low-end massively parallel processing systems , has closed down its hardware business after investors pulled the plug and refused to invest further capital . |
| 26 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting . |
| 27 | One of Prudential 's first moves under its new chief executive was to close down its estate agency business , which began in 1985 . |
| 28 | Schroders , the merchant banking group , shut down its Schroder Discount subsidiary last year after two years , while Westpac Banking Corp also closed its invoice discounting operation last year . |
| 29 | There were notices all over , but that was like the Army to bring her all the way over to Sweetmary not knowing Hatch & Hodges had shut down its stage service . |
| 30 | ICI was the only UK-based manufacturer of carbon tetrachloride up until this month when it closed down its production plant . |