Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] down the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there are plans to scale down the additional pension , this will not affect anyone retiring before 1998 and will only marginally affect those retiring by 2009 . |
| 2 | Brave attempts have been made by certain experts to write down the different miaows , in order to classify and standardize them . |
| 3 | Now British Gas have been forced to scrap plans to pull down the 110-year-old hulk . |
| 4 | The wind whipped down the narrow side-streets and alleys , whistling in the wide estuaries . |
| 5 | When the divers went over the side to swim down the seventy feet to the pipe , however , they immediately discovered how hazardous it really was . |
| 6 | Well , the most serious one , I suppose , is that there were some people in a car driving down the bottom end of Commerical Street and they had their windows broken by stones thrown by Hereford lads . |
| 7 | of cocks sucked down the deep end 's outlet hole , |
| 8 | Scott wandered down the short set of steps to Carol 's door , noticing that there was a pint of milk on the step . |
| 9 | They insist she puts a blanket over her knees to damp down the chief rabbi 's blood pressure . |
| 10 | Recognizing the complexities and psychological dangers of this awesome doctrine , most non-Puritan clergy played down the Calvinist theory of salvation to such an extent that many of their parishioners were able to continue to believe that their conduct could influence their destination after death . |
| 11 | Dundee defender , Steve Pittman , latched on to a defensive error by John Inglis to race down the left flank . |
| 12 | A Feminist Dictionary , compiled by Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler , is not just a nonsexist version of the standard dictionary , but an attempt to break down the monolithic authority of dictionaries in general . |
| 13 | The obverse of Employee Involvement is Participative Management , Ford 's attempt to break down the organizational barriers between management hierarchies . |
| 14 | Christianson and Loftus ( 1987 ) had subjects write down the central detail from each slide and Christianson and Loftus ( 1991 ) had them evaluate the affective quality of each slide , both these studies showed results which appeared to be consistent with Easterbrook 's hypothesis . |
| 15 | At snow falling down the blinded door . |
| 16 | The reasons are all too obvious : children in the camps , when asked to draw a picture about their lives at home , almost invariably produce scenes including helicopters bombing their farms or bodies dripping with blood flowing down the local stream . |
| 17 | Dennis ran down the concrete slope and leapt in as the craft relaunched itself with a loud splash , taking on quite a lot of water . |
| 18 | Crosby is determined to buy this week to halt the Roker slide down the First Division table . |
| 19 | He let his mind wander down the twenty yards of landing and the three stairs to the back bedroom where his sixteen-year-old daughter lay . |
| 20 | And every parent has just been sent a letter — which claims ’ both Labour and the Liberal Demcrats have stated their intention to close down the remaining grammar schools . ’ |
| 21 | Her eyes ran down the black jacket to where the man 's watch was half hidden by a white cuff . |
| 22 | If the drains get blocked , this cover can be removed and drain rods pushed down the rodding point to clear them . |
| 23 | But do n't be fooled by the island 's exotic name or location just off Africa — once the sun goes down the whole place comes alive . |
| 24 | Cornelius laid down the unsipped glass . |
| 25 | At that moment Jack Carter and Dougal Munro came down the main staircase . |
| 26 | With a gasp of despair Ruth slammed down the half-empty glass of champagne and covered her face with her hands . |
| 27 | Fei Yen stood by the window looking down the steep slope towards the terrace and the ornamental lake . |
| 28 | Spellbound , I drove upwards into the bright splendour , staring through the windscreen as though I had never seen it all before ; the bronze of the dead bracken spilling down the grassy Banks of the hills , the dark smudges of trees , the grey farmhouses and the endless pattern of wails creeping to the heather above . |
| 29 | This all reached a peak in 1988 when piss-filled cider bottles rained down the hapless likes of Meatloaf ( who ran away ) and Bonnie Tyler ( who did n't ! ) . |
| 30 | Bacteria and fungi go to work breaking down the dead organisms ' protein into amino acids and converting them into ammonia , a useful source of nutrition . |