Example sentences of "down [coord] [verb] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helicopters were used to provide an airborne relay station but if they were shot down or ran out of fuel , soldiers on the ground often had to resort to the GPO telephone system . |
| 2 | It might be as straightforward as writing down or calling out an answer , pressing a button , etc. or it may be a task that requires manipulative skills such as wiring an electrical component or threading a needle . |
| 3 | Back down or get out , Major warns Delors |
| 4 | Other studies too have described how mothers regularly cut down or miss out on meals in order to provide a better diet for their children . |
| 5 | The links between the mind and health are not yet fully understood but there is sufficient evidence to suggest that physical illness is not a straightforward matter of bodily components breaking down or wearing out . |
| 6 | In the unique structure of the rainforest , creepers interweave between branches and can either tear a neighbouring tree down or rip out branches , leaving it vulnerable to disease . |
| 7 | She put the phone down and got out of bed . |
| 8 | Anyway , if you 're goin' to tea with the toffs you 'd better get scrubbed down and pick out some decent clothes . ’ |
| 9 | As they float through the water their long , almost invisible tentacles hang down and spread out far from the visible central part of the body . |
| 10 | Simon looked down and laughed out loud . |
| 11 | But nomes hear sounds slowed down and stretched out and deeper , like a record player in a power cut . |
| 12 | Turn off the water , drain down and bale out the cistern to give it a good clean . |
| 13 | The rider bent down and reached out a hand to shake that of Markby and of Pringle . |
| 14 | Pamela put the phone down and strode out to the bus-stop . |
| 15 | ‘ He came in yesterday morning and put his things down and went out . |
| 16 | She sent Jimmy off on an errand as soon as she got in , then sat down and wrote out her notice . |
| 17 | I 'm supposed to keep my head down and stay out of sight . |
| 18 | As she sat down and took out her notebook , she noticed the grey-haired woman , Gladys whatever-it-was , enter the hall and look around uncertainly . |
| 19 | Hari put her basket down and took out her paper patterns . |
| 20 | So he took me back to his place and pulled his pants down and took out this big bundle with the works in it , like . |
| 21 | But I think he just walked straight down and walked out like , but , it was just an accident . |
| 22 | Not for Fergie creeping to her seat with her escort after the lights had gone down and slipping out again just before the final curtain . |
| 23 | In 1976 BR told the government : ‘ Current levels of investment are quite inadequate to keep pace with the rate at which the system and its assets are running down and wearing out … to maintain the present investment ceilings would entail the progressive decline and eventual closure of a substantial proportion of the system and its services . ’ |
| 24 | Second , because I have to go down and sort out Deptford . |
| 25 | She jumped down and ran out of the kitchen , shutting the door carefully behind her . |
| 26 | The redundancies were , the company says , incurred largely by its manufacturing operations , which it is currently scaling down and moving out to a smaller site in Alabama . |
| 27 | He bent down and yanked out the flex that connected a standard lamp to the mains . |
| 28 | ‘ Let me down and find out . ’ |
| 29 | The first afternoon of the course , we did nothing , as the participants all had to buckle down and clean out the premises , including the lavatories and the windows . |
| 30 | Turn the rectangle upside down and carve out a hollow from the centre , leaving a frame of at least 1cm ( ½inch ) and a depth of about half the cake . |