Example sentences of "down the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He put down the pair of pliers he was holding and picked up a heavy adjustable spanner . |
| 2 | Five people were arrested and two were being sought after police in Erfurt , capital of east Germany 's Thuringia state , tracked down the works by Lucas Cranach the Elder and associates . |
| 3 | Finally , materials stockpiling was encouraged by the Japanese government in 1972–3 in an attempt to hold down the yen exchange rate . |
| 4 | From the moment he hit the track head-first and rolled down the 50ft high cambered banking , he had to fight for his life . |
| 5 | John Hodgson and friends Gary and Robert Sowerby abseiled down the 70ft Devil 's Hole near Great Ayton , North Yorkshire , on Sunday . |
| 6 | The news sent shivers through financial markets which marked down the lira to five-month lows around 960 to the mark while bonds also lost ground . |
| 7 | He also sowed clusters of caltraps , spikes projecting upwards to bring down the cavalry . |
| 8 | Waving his men into a pincer formation , Mortimer surprised the small group of machete-wielding rebels who were trying to wear down the staff of the building . |
| 9 | Just like Sir Anthony Hopkins can afford to turn down the £1 million reputedly offered to make a sequel to Silence of The Lambs . |
| 10 | Yet as he developed this , the government emerged as the Pharisees , weighing down the people with unjust laws , and the right claimed by Jesus to satisfy his disciples ' hunger became the right of East Germans to satisfy their hunger for truth . |
| 11 | He pulled down the people on both sides of him . |
| 12 | Aye , I 'd like to speak on this er , outrageous proposal to sa , you know , screw down the people on benefit . |
| 13 | He said he was getting three different sets of advice ; to stay and " tough it out " to retire to a naval base and let the Army put down the people in his absence , or to leave . |
| 14 | It had taken her precious time to track down the people Lori had stayed with , only to discover , when she arrived , that Lori had flown off to Caracas . |
| 15 | At the time he expected to touch down the aircraft suddenly ‘ pulled down to his left ’ , he felt the back of the aircraft buckle and was aware of debris coming through the canopy . |
| 16 | Cooler water slows down the fish 's metabolism . |
| 17 | Charles put down the fish and chips and poured a large Scotch . |
| 18 | ‘ It was a storm like that , was n't it , that sent down the Bison ? ’ |
| 19 | Their world is being turned upside down by the cable revolution and the string of multimedia technologies coming down the pike , but US telephone companies — both local and long-distance — will maintain strong credit quality throughout the 1990s despite major competitive , regulatory and technological challenges , Moody 's Investors Service Inc concludes in its annual report on the industry . |
| 20 | In June residents of Sacramento , California , voted to shut down the $342,000,000 Rancho Seco nuclear plant , and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District , which had agreed to abide by the vote , immediately began to implement its closure . |