Example sentences of "down a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listen to talks — read articles — then jot down a few headings on what message is being conveyed . |
| 2 | Loosen the holes slightly by moving arms and legs up and down a few times . |
| 3 | They swing to the top of the backswing and then practise with the left arm bouncing the club up and down a few times so that there is a feeling of taking control of the downswing and the right shoulder not wanting to push . |
| 4 | When the temperature cooled down a few minutes later Gallacher headed to the referee 's dressing room to apologise . |
| 5 | Okay , so she 's gone down a few orifices in her time , but if anyone calls her a hookworm I 'll burst their intestines . |
| 6 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 25 times . |
| 7 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 25 times , holding each raise for 1 second . |
| 8 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 30 times , holding each raise for 1 second . |
| 9 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 30 times , holding each raise for 1 second . |
| 10 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 35 times , holding each raise for 1 second . |
| 11 | Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 35 times . |
| 12 | The decorations shone on the walls and I loosened the buttons of my tunic and slipped my tie down a few inches . |
| 13 | At first the simple machines available could only detect down a few inches , and — amongst other operating difficulties — encounters with tufts of grass caused them to constantly give off false signals . |
| 14 | If you ca n't get more heat up there , let us move the games room down a few floors . " |
| 15 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
| 16 | I think I settled down a few years back . |
| 17 | The new methods of mass production , were unsuccessful and was closed down a few years later . |
| 18 | I think they closed it down a few years later . |
| 19 | For now , let's begin by jotting down a few ideas for sequences to make a Christmas movie . |
| 20 | Sitting down with a slip of graph paper and jotting down a few ideas will help , you make sense of your thoughts . |
| 21 | If you could just jot down a few ideas that . |
| 22 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 23 | Jess said , climbing down a few rungs . |
| 24 | She eased herself down a few rungs , praying it would n't collapse under her . |
| 25 | She had to take a walk down a short corridor from the main hallway , go down a few steps to the kitchen . |
| 26 | Beach lovers rarely fault the International as it backs directly , down a few steps , onto the sands and sea . |
| 27 | The ISV programme supposedly kicked off last week despite a quiet little ruling handed down a few days before by MIPS ' new parent , Silicon Graphics Inc , that says RiscOS 5.1 , due in the fall , is the end of the line . |
| 28 | So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at |
| 29 | ‘ I 've jotted down a few details , numbers and so on . |
| 30 | And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago . |