Example sentences of "down that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And stock will graze down that tough grass and sweeten it again . ’ |
| 2 | Just less than half the money created went down that drain . |
| 3 | From early on the government underpinned this advantage by laying down that certain ‘ national ’ events could not be contractually monopolized by either side . |
| 4 | The stone had been raised high just as Wexford was raising it now but brought down that time on the back of Hatton 's skull . |
| 5 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 6 | When President Reagan went to West Berlin and declared before the Brandenburg Gate , ‘ Mr Gorbachev , tear down that Wall ! ’ , a number of familiar factors were in play . |
| 7 | But Mr Patten , who has been at the Home Office as Minister of State for four years , has clearly harboured doubts about his decision to turn down that Arts job . |
| 8 | They were so run down that passenger trains were rarely entrusted to them if anything else could be found , and they were to be seen hauling coal trains as on this occasion when No. 46156 ‘ The South Wales Borderers ’ passed Holmewood heading south in 1964 . |
| 9 | ‘ So , the fact of it is that you last went down that stretch of lane at four o'clock . ’ |
| 10 | It lays down that loyalty to the nation — and in established States , the State — ought to take priority over all other loyalties , including that to the family , and that the crime of disloyalty is treason , the punishment for which is frequently death ( that is , the nation has the power of life and death over its members ) . |
| 11 | there is a better chance now than ever before to break down that prejudice which prompted the Irish people to confound in one common hatred the oppressed classes of England with the oppressors of both countries . |
| 12 | But there is at least a hint in the Bill that in certain circumstances opted-out schools ( to be referred to as grant-maintained schools ) might receive extra funds from the DES : although in general such schools are to receive funding equivalent to that which they would have received from the LEA , Clause 67 ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) lay down that for certain ‘ special purposes ’ extra non-recurrent or recurrent grants may be forthcoming . |
| 13 | ‘ A cold compress might take down that swellin' … ’ |
| 14 | The sheer volume of the many assessments externally required by the Act and now under design by SEAC runs the danger of forcing the less confident teachers — indeed all of them in the first instance , as they ascend the steep learning curve — into ‘ rote teaching ’ , a much more dangerous activity than rote learning because it tends to shut down that sense of intellectual curiosity without which children are not really being taught . |
| 15 | They have also put members in 7 of Germany 's 11 regional governments , and brought down that of Hamburg . |
| 16 | Head in the air — they would n't dare call me ‘ show-off ’ at a moment like this — I launched myself down that gaping passage-way and marched in to Dinwiddie 's room . |
| 17 | I 'd write down last night 's dream , and then I 'd write down that recurring one , the one about the cave with the echoing voices . |
| 18 | You ca n't see down that part of the cloister leading off from the chapel into the convent . |
| 19 | It was obvious to everyone from the moment they sat down that Zach was bursting to tell them something . |
| 20 | These recently acquired spoils of war , added to the Trees ' well-documented generosity of girth and a general world-weariness alarming for men only in their mid-20s , lend the impression that a lifetime 's shift down that proverbial coal mine would be a less gruelling occupation . |
| 21 | End up later on square 46 denoting Andrew and Fergie 's separation and down that snake you go . |
| 22 | But if it goes down that route , it will face some criticism from its members . |
| 23 | At the time , I was far from alone in wondering if he had not wandered further down that path than he knew , whether the playboy and gilded youth had not taken over from the redoubtable fighter . |
| 24 | The issue erupted again when asbestos spilled in the factory over the first weekend in June and Raybestos management announced it had closed down that section of the factory . |
| 25 | The regulars , as she put it , had mostly departed and she and her husband were soon going to close down that side of the business for the winter . |
| 26 | ‘ Because it gives us time to stall them , ’ Roquelaure came back sharply , ‘ until we track down that Arab cartel or locate the missing arms shipment . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Maybe a crafty old head would say , ‘ I 'm not going down that wing again ’ , but not Lee . |
| 28 | ‘ At the end of the season , if we go down that could cost me my job , ’ said Atkins , whose side are deep in relegation trouble . |
| 29 | When he got his breath back he told Sutton it was imperative they sat down that night , the next night , the night after — however long it would take to thrash out a plan for the paper . |
| 30 | For a third , d'Arquebus would look down that slim , ruby-ringed nose of his . |