Example sentences of "down [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned herself over in her bed , and snuggled down for an extra , self-indulgent and rare hour of sleep . |
| 2 | Then , by pure chance — but seeing it as an act of providence — she had heard Lin Foh call down for an early supper , for him and his CI5 guardian . |
| 3 | Wharton has a big-money fight with Sheffield 's Fidel Castro , formerly Slugger O'Toole , with his title and Castro 's British title on the line , after producing awesome punching that cut Carr , put him down for an eight count and forced referee Dave Parris step in after 2min 7sec . |
| 4 | He plunged down for an interminable second , arms and legs splayed out in abandon , forgotten , tumbling anyhow , and crashed onto the stage on his back , lying across Bothwell , whose cloak was the colour of blood . |
| 5 | One hundred and fifty staff , directors and partners sat down for an excellent meal at the venue followed by an equally good disco . |
| 6 | Write it down as an odd . |
| 7 | ‘ We believe we have done just that , and this team will go down as an outstanding one in any era . |
| 8 | But seconds later both the England striker and his team recovered their self respect when he netted a Samways cross — although it finally went down as an own goal by Higgins . |
| 9 | It was certainly correct to put Jim Prior , Peter Walker and Ian Gilmour firmly in the ‘ wet ’ camp and Keith Joseph would go down as an undoubted ‘ dry ’ , but for most of the rest of us our opinion depended upon the issue . |
| 10 | Their first set move broke down through an elementary forward pass , and throughout the first half they were plagued by basic errors . |
| 11 | The oriental had released them from their cells a short time before , and ordered them to precede him down through an open trapdoor into a secret escape tunnel . |
| 12 | The promising centre touched down after an 80-yard gallop . |
| 13 | The promising centre touched down after an 80-yard gallop . |
| 14 | Continuing anti-US feeling in Iran and the associated strength of the radical Islamic political forces resulted from the US refusal to make a more comprehensive effort to compensate Iran for the shooting down of an Iranian airbus in the Gulf by the USS Vincennes warship in July 1988 [ see pp. 36169-70 ] , and from the fact that it continued to hold , according to official Iranian estimates , some $12,000 million in assets frozen since the 1979 Iranian revolution [ for agreement in November 1989 to release assets see p. 37053 ] . |
| 15 | ( One widely held theory was that Iran had paid Jabril US$1,000,000 to blow up PA 103 in retaliation for the July 1988 shooting down of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes [ see pp. 36169-70 ] ] ) . |
| 16 | The Government gave the go-ahead despite last week 's shooting down of an Italian relief plane . |
| 17 | Professor Ivan Smith was prompted to make his accident findings public after the recent shooting down of an Italian plane over Bosnia . |
| 18 | It came down like an oily green avalanche , piling up into a mountain of folds , but no one bothered about it because the sun shone through the dusty , cobwebbed windows and made Jekub glow . |
| 19 | At last she wound down like an old-fashioned gramophone and rolled onto her back on the grass feeling exhausted . |
| 20 | his great jaw hanging down like an open hatch . |
| 21 | She stood and looked at Mrs Mantini , and gradually Mrs Mantini broke down like an overheated fire . |
| 22 | An eagle diving to the hand from 500 feet whistling down like an express train is a sight not often forgotten . |
| 23 | It says … , ’ he held the fluttering sheet of foolscap firmly to the table , … we have to lie down against an inner wall — under the table if possible . |
| 24 | These priorities are also reflected in the prescriptions for teacher education laid down with an increasing degree of firmness from the centre . |
| 25 | After a wait Toby came along the upstairs corridor and sent Pickerage down with an encouraging pat on the shoulder . |
| 26 | These are visible by phase-contrast and polarization microscopy and occur in many Pterygote insects ; such layers are not found in Apterygotes and are laid down with an irregular rhythm in the Coleoptera . |
| 27 | A week later , however , Charlie Allen of the CIA sat down with an undercover agent in North 's office to hear North read from his notebook |
| 28 | He stares out at us with steely blue eyes , his hair neatly twisted into one dark curl on his forehead ; he 's sporting a smart black frock-coat with a neatly-buttoned waistcoat and a full cravat anchored down with an ornate jewelled pin and chain . |
| 29 | In the hall of the castle Sir John was reasoning with a group of servants while Lady Charlotte had hysterics under the portrait of a clan chief of the sixteenth century — an armoured and bearded warrior who looked down with an imperious black stare . |
| 30 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |