Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] down a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because there is so little drag on crossing two stitches every four rows this is one time when you will not need to take down a stitch to either side of the cable . |
| 2 | After all this time of wondering , when her instincts told her that he was in love with her yet he seemed to draw down a shutter between them so often , it seemed almost too good to be true . |
| 3 | To get them through the Christmas crisis , staff in London were instructed to send down a variety of commercial patterns and magazines which Laura adapted herself . |
| 4 | If someone could wave a magic wand , and I could change something , I think I 'd like to go down a couple of cup sizes . |
| 5 | ‘ The fire has been lit and allowed to die down a couple of times — and I once smelt the stuff . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ We do n't have too many large office blocks in the North-East so I 'd have to knock down a number of housing schemes . |
| 8 | The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him . |
| 9 | I have never been known to turn down a volunteer for any project . |
| 10 | He also objected to having to tone down a description of the 1937 Rape of Nanking , when Japanese troops went on the rampage , killing tens of thousands of Chinese civilians and prisoners . |
| 11 | We would have to cut down a lot of woodland , we would have to alter our environment substantially , and that is something that people have to bear in mind when advocating free-range . |
| 12 | She managed to hold down a job as a journalist with a local newspaper , but was finding it increasingly difficult to produce a reasonable standard of work when suffering from PMS , which was sometimes debilitating . |
| 13 | ‘ By murdering President Rene Muawad , his assassins chose to strike down a man of dialogue and reconciliation , ’ the secretary-general , Ms Catherine Lalumiere , said . |
| 14 | RPR leader Chirac also had to contend with an unprecedented growth of new " currents " within the Gaullist movement and on July 11 , 1991 , was forced to lay down a code of good conduct to guide them . |
| 15 | BOSNIA 'S UN commander General Philippe Morillon hoped to nail down a cease-fire between Serb , Moslem and Croat military chiefs today . |
| 16 | However , quite apart from the fact that such a statement does not accommodate cases of emergency — cases where the defendant 's unlawful conduct could , unless restrained , cause serious and irreparable harm before trial , as for example where the defendant threatens to cut down a tree in breach of a tree preservation order — in other cases it is usually not so much the flagrancy of the breach as the fact that the defendant intends to persist in offending unless restrained by an injunction , which justifies the invocation of that form of relief : see City of London Corporation v. Bovis Construction Ltd . |
| 17 | Once she had written , another decision would have been taken , and he would tell them in the office that they were having a stab at Italy this year , he 'd managed to track down a villa in Tuscany . |