Example sentences of "down [prep] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a quiet time and I would sit these fellows down for half an hour and take them through what they were doing . |
| 2 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 3 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 4 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 5 | Why do n't you go and lie down for half an hour ? |
| 6 | I know what I need , to put my head down for half an hour this afternoon I wo n't be fit for nothing the night . |
| 7 | Even at the height of NEP prosperity in 1926 , considerable resistance to central patterns and instructions was to linger on the further one got away from Moscow down through all the provincial levels , but in 1922 strong fears of such resistance provoked a siege psychology among those party officials located nearest to the grass roots . |
| 8 | The Brighton Constabulary , whose marksmen had taken up positions from which they could command the Grand Hotel , was stood down after half an hour . |
| 9 | The Ukraine called for the shutting down of all the reactors at the Chernobyl site in 1990 and urged that greater consideration be given to a new energy programme which eliminated nuclear power . |
| 10 | We 've also got through Social Services , and Honiton , who are desperate serving source of furniture , and you just see it going on top of the estate cars going down towards all the time . |
| 11 | Spotted grooving on down amongst all the leather and rubber clad ravers at this week 's Skin 2 Charity Rubber Ball which was held at Hammersmith Palais were one or two leather-togged pop stars believing themselves to be invisible in the throng . |
| 12 | Breakfast means making a manful start on the average per capita daily consumption of 9 lb of patisseries and 2 lb of butter , washed down with all the coffee produced by 1 lb of beans , sweetened with a truly papal ration of — yes , every day — 13 lb of sugar . |
| 13 | She put the thought down with all the other unpleasant thoughts she kept having and flew . |
| 14 | A a apart from Chris and Bill , I 've sat down with all the M S fours an and been through the changes to the appointment contract , and how they now erm form the basis of the er interim client report . |
| 15 | Oh yeah , but we well she 's gon na change it , d' ya know when you update it you know they bring it back down with all the different words that , that 's being to the the , the , the , the dialect , not the dialect , the the vocabulary they , they 've , they 've got in America . |
| 16 | The evening gala dinner was held at Yew Lodge , and after Club Secretary Stewart Wilson read out some dubious ‘ alternative ’ golf rules , all settled back to enjoy the good food , and good company , washed down with many a long winded golfing yarn . |
| 17 | Mind you , we 'll go buy some and your Corrinne 'll be down with half a bag or summat daft like that ! |
| 18 | How would they shake down in such a confined space with what amounted to more than two and a half ? |
| 19 | Lawyers should be ashamed that they have allowed the law of defamation to have become bogged down in such a mass of technicalities that this should be possible . " |
| 20 | He stated that Cunt'anas let Leeds down in both the Rangers games . |
| 21 | They got Midnight down in half an hour , after Jess had fetched water for him to drink , and then had cleaned him as best she could . |
| 22 | He 'd be down in half an hour though . |
| 23 | Now , in the dream influence of the moon , Fenna told Maggie to look down on all the kingdoms of the world , and across China she saw the snaking of the Great Wall . |
| 24 | Michael himself was now in the choir balcony beside Jock Lennox letting Maria look down on all the heads below them . |
| 25 | If he cracks down on you , London would crack down on all the fringe people who go in and out of the Soviet network there . |
| 26 | I 've cut down on all the exercise I felt necessary to do and always have fourth helpings but nothing can bring back my third chin , I do n't know what to do , ’ said the man . |
| 27 | So we 're way down on all the others ! so , that then falls three hundred thousand pound short of what is required to er , give ministers an increase to twelve thousand next year . |
| 28 | And he 's coming down on all the way through there and he landed just across there and landed , I think he very . |
| 29 | Put yourself in the position of a financial adviser , for the couple that you see , these are all theoretical couples obviously , theoretical individuals , and just jot down on this the sort t . |
| 30 | On the negative side , the small shareholder may find himself scaled down to such a small stake that a sizeable portion of profits would be wiped off by share-dealing costs . |