Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [to-vb] down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rangers went ahead when a superb ball from John Brown allowed David Robertson to go down the line on the left , and McCoist was on the spot to whip home the cross . |
| 2 | It needed considerable force of character , whatever the merits of the issue , for the Thomson family to shut down The Times and The Sunday Times for a year and for Murdoch to move the papers to ‘ fortress Wapping ’ later , in his struggles with the unions . |
| 3 | It did , in any event , provide an excuse for the father of the Princess Adelaide to turn down the proposal , although it seems likely that the dubious moral reputation of his putative son-in-law also played a part in the refusal . |
| 4 | IT was hardly a Sellars market as Leeds boss Howard Wilkinson scored brilliantly over Liverpool 's Kenny Dalglish to beat down the price for midfielder Scott Sellars |
| 5 | He gives up a day job to write down the stories — of the Secret Mountain , the Sound that could be Seen , the Slow Children and the Magic Duvet — that he once told for free to a rabble of offspring and other kin and friends . |
| 6 | MOSSLEY — New coach Robert Nelson 's first priority will be to strengthen his defence , following the departure of Craig McCrugan to Lisnagarvey and the decision by stalwart Harry Burns to play down the club . |
| 7 | The decision by the Cambrian News board to close down the company 's newspaper printing operation in Aberystwyth , after 103 years in the town , stems from plans to improve the quality of the paper to meet competition from other newspapers in Ceredigion , Montgomeryshire , Meirionnydd and Dwyfor . |
| 8 | The solvent used tends to be methylene chloride thickened with SCMC to a gel consistency to slow down the evaporation of the solvent and to make the product easy to apply . |
| 9 | The process uses a natural gas flame to break down the effluent into sulphur dioxide . |
| 10 | If this is the case , then you may well want lots of hardy infantry and plenty of missile troops to scythe down the opposition as they advance on your army . |
| 11 | This reddish-brown turmoil of turbid waters is the run-off from the grazing lands of Middle Third , Pitmeadow and Balquhandie , gushing over the clays and old red sandstone of Dunning Glen to swirl down the ford behind my study window . |
| 12 | They ordered the auto firm to haul down the flags , claiming they were ‘ excessive ’ in a residential area . |
| 13 | It does n't take the detective skills of Lord Peter Wimsey to track down the novels of Dorothy L Sayers … she 's made it into the top shelf of crime writers . |
| 14 | Erm fi , finally what I say on , is , that we do need er , some firm indication this evening erm in order to enable Moat Housing Society to draw down the housing association grant for the housing corporation erm and to enable us , obviously to sign a er , the legal agreement with them . |
| 15 | A check was done on the pH and a proprietary acid buffer was added to bring it down to 6.5 Softening resin was added in a box filter to bring down the hardness to 8°DGH . |
| 16 | On one fake astrolabe examined recently the faker had clearly got bored and resorted to an angle grinder to wear down the edges , leaving very characteristic scratches ; unfortunately most fakers are much more painstaking ! |
| 17 | I would be grateful if you can recommend a mastic solution to stick down the blocks . |
| 18 | Sir : As a former student at the then University of Rhodesia , I was appalled at the decision of the Zimbabwe government to close down the university . |
| 19 | After conceding a 1–1 draw in the Principality , Arsene Wenger 's side is relying on the foreign attacking trio of Rui Barros , George Weah and Youssouf Fofana to break down the Feyenoord defence who , as Tottenham found to their cost , have conceded only one goal in seven matches . |