Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] down a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he did not dictate , he went at a pace slow enough for the listeners to take down a lot of what he said . |
| 2 | An attempt to burn down a warehouse at Stockport was followed by rumours of secret gatherings , armings and oath taking and there was certainly talk of a general rising . |
| 3 | Ask your child to set down a row of four figures . |
| 4 | One of the machine tenders used a piece of wood to knock down a catch on a door in the base of the copper sheathing around the bottom of the barrel . |
| 5 | The final stage before the body leaves the body shop for the paint shop is normally for the completed welded body to pass down a line of welders and grinders . |
| 6 | ‘ Many very significant aspects of our proposals are being implemented , like the need to set down a number of general principles , and to tighten up syllabuses . ’ |
| 7 | The President would lose the right to put down a motion for the government 's dismissal . |
| 8 | For example , the Bank of England would hardly have hesitated in the old days to close down a bank like BCCI , knowing that few first-rate domestic institutions were prepared to deal with it in quantity . |
| 9 | One of them — an adolescent with the fair , downy looks of a choir boy — reached up with a pole to bring down a clump of unidentifiable silvery speckled birds . |
| 10 | Once Buckthorn disturbed a snake , and leapt into the air as it whipped between his paws to vanish down a hole at the foot of a birch . |
| 11 | One technique involves helping a person to break down a problem into more manageable subproblems and consider the merits of various possible solutions to each part . |
| 12 | The part-time firemen , part of a four-man crew from Mildenhall , had planned to use water from beneath the bridge to damp down a blaze in an isolated copse near Eriswell . |
| 13 | Numbers — Although it 's good fun for three or more people to abseil down a rope at the same time , normally no more than two should be attached to the same descendeur . |
| 14 | However , any task which required the pupil to break down a number into its place value components — hundreds , tens etc. — was more demanding . |
| 15 | Middlesbrough Council is to reconsider its decision to turn down a request for help from the Church of the Holy Trinity , North Ormesby , which faces a £41,000 bill for repairs to its Grade II listed clock tower . |
| 16 | Middlesbrough Council is to reconsider its decision to turn down a request for help from the Church of the Holy Trinity , North Ormesby , which faces a £41,000 bill for repairs to its Grade II listed clock tower . |
| 17 | Use your pistol to dispense with individual guards or your machine gun to mow down a line of enemies . |
| 18 | Bass , for example , requires a tenant to put down a deposit of £1,000 before he can even contemplate arbitration . |