Example sentences of "[to-vb] down [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's other people as well I think , but , I believe you do n't have to sit down conversation on your on do you ? . |
| 2 | Grip and balance are remarkable for such a heavy car but this is n't one to hustle down country lanes . |
| 3 | Waqar at the other end continued to fling down roundarm yorkers , until tea , when both sides drew breath . |
| 4 | To drive down inflation . |
| 5 | Suspicious of the ‘ two-tier ’ contracts used by some American carriers to drive down pay for all , strikes are threatened over the holiday weekend of May 28th . |
| 6 | This gave the ‘ Maranyl ’ business the tool it needed to drive down batch/run size . |
| 7 | In this extreme case , the velocity of circulation falls as all increases in the money supply are added to ‘ idle ’ balances , and monetary policy is powerless to drive down interest rates and , therefore , is unable to give any stimulus to investment or consumption . |
| 8 | ‘ What I do intend is for you to drive down town with me right now , come into the notary 's office and sign away any rights you imagine you might have . |
| 9 | Yeah I can get her to wait down sort of at the other end . |
| 10 | I 'd like to go down daddy . |
| 11 | Now them they have to go down sauce up here you 've got no tinned stuff , no ? |
| 12 | I used to come home , I used to go down there about , I used to start out away from the shop about er ten o'clock , half past ten , you see , in the morning and go down the Fen , call at then comes well I used to call on the first houses on the right the way down the Fen there I used to go down farm they used to call it , come back to and then on to you see . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're to go down t'village , to t'stables , ’ George told his father , as he retrieved the reins . |
| 14 | Teacher to go down und-orr ! |
| 15 | ‘ May I borrow your car to go down town ? ’ |
| 16 | Ma , will you write me a letter tomorrow to go down town to look at some clothes |
| 17 | ca n't do it any other way , so I said oh I 'll go and have a look , I 've got to go down town and |
| 18 | Twitch bites have always been a problem , and the best answers have been to scale down tackle and bait to encourage a better bite , or to hover over the rod and attempt to strike and hit the twitch bite . |
| 19 | The government is to scale down food stockpiles for use in the event of war , agriculture minister John Gummer has announced . |
| 20 | The reviews follow the Tomlinson report earlier this year which also concentrated on ways to slim down health services in the capital . |
| 21 | With MainWin , the Windows applications will reportedly run in native mode with no intervening emulation level to bog down performance . |
| 22 | People were literally afraid to come down town . |
| 23 | They used to give us gum and sweets everything and the , they sometimes , the military police they used to come down town and they 'd be after deserters from Lichfield and |
| 24 | Yet again I have to write down passport numbers , visa numbers , when and where issued . |
| 25 | When you 're trying to write down speech , you can see that there are all sorts of problems initially , of how much you write down . |
| 26 | In order to damp down monarchist hopes that it might now be possible to pressure him into resigning , Franco wrote to Don Juan on 2 December 1954 , telling him that power would not be transferred in Franco 's lifetime and that his successor would be bound by the guiding principles of the regime set up in 1939 . |
| 27 | Operators decided to clean down equipment regularly , not just superficially , but by taking it to pieces . |
| 28 | Sun is looking to shoot down Silicon Graphics Inc with Freedom , admitting that its graphics specialist neighbour in Mountain View , California , has been ‘ a major irritation to us over the last few years . ’ |
| 29 | As the heavens continued to pour down water , Hermon and Martin Bond , owners of the championship St Mellion course near Saltash , Cornwall , were fined £150 each for taking water without a licence . |
| 30 | Isabel Lavender began to smooth down finger after finger of her gardening gloves , intent upon maintaining appearances , even through domestic tasks . |