Example sentences of "down [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took them until the 100th minute of an enthralling Rumbelows Cup semi-final second leg to finally break down Spurs ' gallant resistance as former Cobh Ramblers player Keane met Gary Crosby 's corner to beat Erik Thorstvedt with a thumping header . |
| 2 | Chapter 11 works by allowing top management to get the firm out of trouble by drawing up a rescue plan that can involve restructuring the firm and writing down creditors ' claims on its assets . |
| 3 | George the 4ft-long grouper spends his days peering down visitors ' cleavages at Blackpool , but ignores men . |
| 4 | Now let it rub off on greedy directors of other companies , especially those recently privatised , who have been giving themselves huge rises while keeping down workers ' pay . |
| 5 | Soccer fans burned down rivals ' stand |
| 6 | So a doctor writes down his patient 's symptoms , an architect writes down his client 's requirements , Hansard records the proceedings of the British Parliament , we write down friends ' addresses , telephone numbers , recipes , knitting patterns , and so on . |
| 7 | R. R. Dale 's ( 1969 , 1971 , 1974 ) three-volume study focuses mainly on the social advantages , and it is possible in any case to challenge the nature of the superior social development of girls which is argued to accompany mixed rather than single-sex schooling , since one of the things it may involve is breaking down girls ' resistance to the imposition of various stereotypes of femininity to a greater extent than is found in single-sex schools . |
| 8 | The proliferation of glossy reports , brochures and prospectuses may be good for the designers and a printing company or two , but our impression is that this is more about the marketing of the British government than about marketing West Belfast , and we wonder what it achieves in terms of breaking down outsiders ' negative stereotypes of the area and of the people who live here . |
| 9 | The last hard-left council , Lambeth , now close to organisational and political collapse , still sends shivers down voters ' spines across the capital . |
| 10 | Thus at any particular point in that debate ministers will have to weigh the merits of cutting the hospital building programme or holding down nurses ' salaries against raising the prescription charge , or of reducing the number of home students against charging a higher fee to overseas students . |
| 11 | The Institute of Directors said its survey showed that bosses were not lining their own pockets while holding down employees ' pay . |