Example sentences of "down [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D Company had spent the previous day digging a line of trenches to cover a series of vehicle checkpoints on all the main roads , and were just settling down for their first day 's occupation of the trenches . |
| 2 | And it came as no surprise when Saints ' strong-running second row Chris Joynt touched down for their fourth and final try in the dying seconds . |
| 3 | These provide a succession of blooms from mid-June — with feverfew ( Chrysanthemum parthenium ) , goat 's rue ( Galega officinalis ) and lupin ( Lupinus nootkatensis ) — through the summer with tansy ( Tan- acetum vulgare ) and soapwort ( Saponaria officinatis ) , until mid-October when the Michaelmas daisies ( Aster novi-belgii ) finally die down after their two-month flowering period . |
| 4 | The ‘ charming and delightful ’ London lawyer grandfather who told stories , or the once stern parent who could find ‘ no limit to his indulgence for his grandchildren ; ’ the weekly visit to a landowning grandfather ‘ to whom we were deeply attached ; ’ the ‘ lengthened visits ’ from ‘ very kind ’ grandparents , or a grandson 's ‘ happiest days ’ , being ‘ thoroughly spoiled ’ in the countryside , are all typical Especially with upper-class families these visits were often directly linked with the handing down of their own distinctive family traditions . |
| 5 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 6 | The fire brigade declined to shed light on the matter , however , claiming that moggies always came down of their own accord . |
| 7 | The Masai moved from the great river of the north , freely interpreted as the Nile , says the professor in a note , down towards their present location . |
| 8 | Harrogate were 9–0 down against their first round who had not had a try scored against them since October . |
| 9 | Harrogate were 9–0 down against their first round who had not had a try scored against them since October . |
| 10 | And as the dhāmis dance in the sunshine , the tiers of yellow garlands collide with that hair and bounce up and down against their white tunics . |
| 11 | Over at the laibon 's engang they are bedded down behind their own thicket of thorn bushes , the cattle jammed together in a large boma and the goats in a smaller one right in the middle , as far from the athletic leopards as possible . |
| 12 | These powerful mountain-dwelling Elves leapt among the Naggarothi assassins and chopped them down with their great axes , saving Caledor 's life . |
| 13 | Next thing we knew , they 'd pushed past us , blagged a cup of tea ( three sugars ) and sat down with their dirty hobnail trainers on the shag-pile . |
| 14 | The novices empty vats of mutton scraps into the dustbins and pack them down with their bare hands . |
| 15 | The French , who would n't set foot on a plage without weighing themselves down with their entire jewellery collection , are good at finding tiny little shorts with nifty frou-frou tops . |
| 16 | ( Given the choice between emulating Mick Jagger or , say , Sid Vicious , only a lunatic would plump for the latter , but in terms of films you might conceivably want to sit and watch , Sid and Nancy win hands down with their blood-splattered , smack-snorting Liebestod . ) |
| 17 | and they 're all going down with their little cards in their hands as they |
| 18 | And the horsemen came riding down with their horned helmets and their lances and William was running , screaming , towards the village , but it was always too far away . |
| 19 | As well as procedures , structural grammar developed the technique of immediate constituent analysis , a technique for cutting a sentence into its immediate constituents , which in turn were broken down into their immediate constituents and so on to the ultimate constituent . |
| 20 | Nonetheless it is important that you learn to break history books down into their original skeletal form . |
| 21 | If anybody said , if , Tuesday we started , if anybody said on the , what they want sent them Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , take all the orders down under their appropriate names in the book but right an Mond Tuesday , Wednesday Thursday my day off and Friday and Saturday I was in the office . |
| 22 | Some governments say that in order to keep the rebellious minorities down within their own countries they must have a large military strength . |
| 23 | Can the Directors of the Court of the Bank see down from their lofty offices to the struggles that the Bank Assistants endure/ Is it possible that the clouds get in the way ? |
| 24 | People had moved back down from their temporary dwellings on Jimale and the village was once again alive with activity . |
| 25 | And the Postman 's spectacle was covered in greenflies from the vigorous activity up the tree : " No , but I says to him " — " Really , all right " — " Well " — " and " — " Oh , you 've done it " — " Must go down to the " — " Taps , got to get some " went the song to the rhythm of empty beer bottles dropping into the side pocket receptacles of tree-holder number 29 on the dustmen 's route — and the tip-holding pockets for the dustmen were not full or anything cos the ladies had all forgotten their purses , and the paper , folding , crumpled , torn money had long since fluttered down from their knicker-elastic banks . |
| 26 | The Glen came down from their right turgid and fast , shut in by hills on either side , round the rim of the Cheviots and the great curving flank of Yeavering Bell , and across their front to empty itself into the Till . |
| 27 | A long and inconclusive stand-off in the Middle East , when oil prices could probably edge down from their recent $28-odd a barrel , would string out the recession but not deepen it greatly . |
| 28 | Mr Morton needs to bring the contractors down from their revised cost forecast of £7.5bn . |
| 29 | Already , both the top Republican contenders have backed down from their original pledge to rescind Mr Florio 's tax increases the minute they take office . |
| 30 | He had no time for the ritual marriage with the Everqueen since the legions of Nagarythe had swept down from their grim realm , bearing the banner of Malekith before them . |