Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will be occasions when you want to drain down the cold water system . |
| 2 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 3 | Now that the Commission has turned down the unanimous decision of the Catering Sub-Committee to invite the London food commission to give advice on how healthy and nutritious the food in the Members ' and Strangers ' Cafeterias is , what will the Leader of the House do to improve the situation ? |
| 4 | Full of confidence , Pliny tried to calm down the overwrought Pomponianus , and to demonstrate his own unconcern , went off to freshen up in the local baths , and subsequently sat down to eat a hearty meal . |
| 5 | Gooch , typically , tried to play down the huge blow to England his own illness has been . |
| 6 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 7 | She was blue when they carried her in , but it looks as though the stone has gone down the right way . ’ |
| 8 | He tried to break down the father-role position doctors held , so the patients could feel more relaxed and see him almost as an equal . |
| 9 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 10 | Your trousers , which can carry braiding down the outside seam as decoration , should be supported , however , and by braces . |
| 11 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |
| 12 | The four men looked up as he came scrambling down the steep bank . |
| 13 | The brief silence seemed to stretch down the long room and hold fast by the pillars of the door , and every eye in the hall fixed greedily on the three at the high table . |
| 14 | The man who called himself Hope went down the sleepy cow-crossed and vagrant-strewn main street of Keswick with the speed and determination of the utterly resolved . |
| 15 | He stopped trembling as quickly as he had begun a moment before and seemed to withdraw down the dark passage to the daydream he was locked in when they first arrived . |
| 16 | I made 400 before great arcing beams of light snaked out above the eastern-bounding ridges of the valley and I had to stop as blocks and slates came hurtling down the softening snow . |
| 17 | And then there Further up the glen from me , from our , house there 's a place called Dalnasnecht It 's a little place in the beside the water and beyond it there 's a great piece of ground on the hill and it was called er Argyll 's Reed where Argy Where all Where Argyll 's men stayed when they came to burn down the bonny house early , Forter Castle . |
| 18 | Right now so the tap is to control the speed at which the acid goes in and if there is any gas that 's in there it ca n't escape out of that pipe again it 's got to go down the other pipe . |
| 19 | Mr Toubon has denied the rumour which circulated in Paris after the March General Election that he was going to shut down the trouble-torn Bastille Opera to carry out a complete technical and financial inventory . |
| 20 | SERB Premier Milan Panic yesterday vowed to shut down the Yugoslav torture camps within 30 days . |
| 21 | Note that some types of motorised valve can not be serviced and have to be replaced ( a job that will entail draining down the entire system ) , but on many newer models it is possible to replace the valve motor and free the valve spindle if it is jammed , without having to interfere with the plumbing . |
| 22 | Before Christine or Ann or any of the other girls playing realised what was happening , the pram began to run down the steep bank , gathering speed at every turn of its wheels . |
| 23 | It involves cutting down the main trunk to encourage new growth from the edge of the stump . |
| 24 | ACT decided to go down the object-oriented route for several reasons . |
| 25 | Since unionization levels among white-collar workers are about half those for blue-collar in both countries , this shift worked to pull down the average level of unionization even though more white-collar workers started to join unions . |
| 26 | Of course , you 'd have to track down the right person . ’ |
| 27 | After years of frustrated attempts to regain control of the site , Hindu extremists brought the issue to an explosive head this year by threatening to tear down the crumbling mosque and build a temple devoted to Lord Rama . |
| 28 | On Aug. 17 Lewandowski had said that he would recommend shutting down the entire copper complex , which included the Lubin mines , if the strike continued . |
| 29 | On Aug. 17 Lewandowski had said that he would recommend shutting down the entire copper complex , which included the Lubin mines , if the strike continued . |
| 30 | If the Government decide to run down the nuclear industry , apart from the loss of 120,000 jobs in the north-west , in the area that I represent , would it be possible to meet the Government 's target for reduced carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2005 , let alone by the year 2000 , under the Labour party 's policy ? |