Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] down the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think to try and break down the barriers that some of the West Indian children have against teachers and academic things … |
| 2 | The council has set up a special investigation team to try and track down the copiers . |
| 3 | In the meantime , the transport ministers also agreed to harmonise standards for air traffic control equipment to try and cut down the delays at EC airports . |
| 4 | They 've come and put down the fairways and greens without regard for existing rights of way . |
| 5 | Their importance to the level of employment at the port was recognised by the journeymen carpenters who in 1792 let it be known that if the slave trade were abolished they would riot and pull down the houses of leading abolitionists . |
| 6 | Many of their posters from the early 1900s through to the 1920s show young women skiing , skating and tobogganing , and women took to the slopes of Grindelwald , St Moritz and those of less fashionable and more affordable resorts , with a zest which matched the mountain air , while their American sisters slid , swooped and glided down the slopes and across the ponds of Vermont or the Rockies . |
| 7 | Will my right hon. Friend tell me how best to reply to a constituent of mine who has recently completed a course of treatment at Broomfield hospital in Chelmsford and who tells me that the nurses and doctors were fantastic , that the treatment was magnificent and that he is fed up to the back teeth with the constant efforts of the Labour party to undermine and talk down the achievements of the health service ? |
| 8 | With us we try and break down the flanks with the full backs . |
| 9 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
| 10 | The filter bed arrangement for reverse-flow is exactly the same as the downflow method , but the direction of water is reversed and pumped down the uplifts and up through the various media . |
| 11 | ‘ All the gold , melting and running down the gutters , ’ said the big one , ignoring him . |
| 12 | But his smile froze as Tristan appeared and set down the tureens before him . |