Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [to-vb] down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craig Brown , the under-21 team manager , has lost three of his current squad — Ferguson , Booth and Wright — to the full squad and has decided to stand down the rest of his Premier Division-based players at a time when league commitments in England have deprived him of Anglos . |
| 2 | By the same token , revisionist work has tended to play down the extent to which the intelligentsia set the goals and moulded the aspirations of peasants and workers . |
| 3 | When he 'd managed to count down the numbers and identify the exact address that she 'd named , he felt something go cold inside him . |
| 4 | It is a sad loss to this House that the right hon. and learned Gentleman should have decided to lay down the burden of representing the electors of Warley , West . |
| 5 | Reports in early March had indicated that the IAEA had sought to play down the significance of a recent report submitted to the UN in which it was claimed that Iraq was offering " better co-operation " to IAEA inspectors . |
| 6 | Just before that vote Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats , the junior coalition partner , had reached agreement on tax reforms which had been the subject of three months of negotiation and which had threatened to bring down the government . |
| 7 | Albert Popple had decided to go down the Lamb and Flag after walking round the block several times . |
| 8 | what , you see , what , what happens you see , I mean all my re all the transactions here are done through banker 's orders you see and the banker 's orders they , they wo n't know who , who ever it is going to be responsible you know , but you 've got to put down the wife and , and yourself , see |
| 9 | No , we 've got to look down the race-card for some attractive , available , acquiescent filly — and the likeliest filly is surely — ’ |
| 10 | As a corollary , AI-workers have tended to play down the importance of neurophysiological knowledge about the brain . |
| 11 | Yesterday , Marchant boss Philip Marchant said : ‘ We have had to batten down the hatches . |
| 12 | In return for the aid , the Bulgarian authorities have agreed to close down the plant 's four 440-megawatt pressurized water reactors , which lack containment facilities to enclose them in case of an accident , as soon as financially possible , perhaps by 1998 . |
| 13 | They have got to pin down the Turks for five-minute periods , which will exaggerate the sense of panic in their back four . |
| 14 | Some countries have tried to slow down the exodus by insisting that players can not leave before a certain age , usually 28 , or until they have completed their national service . |
| 15 | VANDALS have tried to cut down the tree which has become a shrine to rock star Marc Bolan . |
| 16 | Just look at some of the people who have managed to hold down the job over the years : Tommy Docherty , Malcolm Allison , Bobby ‘ Rattling Dentures ’ Robson , most of the 1970–71 Leeds side ( although none of them for very long ) , Alan Ball and various sad , ex-midfield maestros who later became senior sales executives ( North Lincolnshire Region ) for foot-salve manufacturers and double glazing distribution companies . |