Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] down [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will be occasions when you want to drain down the cold water system . |
| 2 | If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing . |
| 3 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 4 | Norwich were trailing Grant , who has turned down a new contract , last season and have maintained their interest . |
| 5 | Former West Indies captain Viv Richards has turned down a lucrative offer to play Currie Cup cricket for South Africa 's Western Province . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Gooch , typically , tried to play down the huge blow to England his own illness has been . |
| 9 | The suit seeks injunctive relief and monetary damages and the court has handed down a preliminary injunction forbidding sale of Axil 's Model 230 SparcStation 10 clone and a temporary restraining order on its Model 310 . |
| 10 | I shall return to that point later , but I want to put down a clear marker now . |
| 11 | This means that British Coal has to shut down a large amount of its production capacity , and this they attempted last autumn . |
| 12 | And in 1994 , expect an IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Corp Windows NT port ‘ when NT has settled down a little bit , ’ says Schuster . |
| 13 | And in 1994 , expect an IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Corp Windows NT version ‘ when NT has settled down a little bit , ’ says Schuster . |
| 14 | The issue of whether to legalize abortion has brought down an Italian government , and yet the age of consent is fourteen , and furthermore sexual intercourse below that age is only illegal if the minor concerned brings charges . |
| 15 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 16 | She was blue when they carried her in , but it looks as though the stone has gone down the right way . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Personality development is impaired when an individual has shut down a broad range of feelings and ways of relating , in the belief , unconsciously arrived at , that it is unsafe to do otherwise . |
| 19 | There are clinics attached to all the university and large municipal hospitals , but the government has shut down the local clinics because they deny that there is any problem . |
| 20 | No.9 Johansson scrags his opposite number while his opposite number while Ahlgren , Sweden 's wild and woolly warrior , looks to cut down the Taiwanese options in his side 's 20–12 Sicily Trophy quarter-final defeat . |
| 21 | It was installed to step down the 33,000 volts supply received at Hindhead from the national grid , to 11,000 for local distribution . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Your trousers , which can carry braiding down the outside seam as decoration , should be supported , however , and by braces . |
| 24 | His plane seemed to swoop down a straight slope until an abrupt crackle signalled the moment to pull out . |
| 25 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |
| 26 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be stated , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 27 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be states , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 28 | The four men looked up as he came scrambling down the steep bank . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They 'd gone down a narrow alleyway — up North they 're called ‘ ginnels ’ but do n't ask me why ; I just observe , I do n't translate — which led to another alley at right-angles . |