Example sentences of "[verb] down the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sheer fury of Southend 's running kept Spurs under pressure and in the 41st minute Gary Mabbutt , newly cautioned for bringing down the impressive David Crown , gave the ball to him . |
| 2 | The terrorists know that by hitting commercial buildings and their insurers they are also hitting at a British Government faced with potentially huge underwriting costs even as it is desperate to find ways of bringing down the public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 3 | His most effective early church planter laid down the great missionary principle of becoming all things to all men that by all means he might win some . |
| 4 | Again , this is to drive down the net asset value of the business . |
| 5 | If you ignore the rule which tells you to drive down the left- hand side of the road in Britain you may crash your car . |
| 6 | I suspect part of the reason behind the council buying the ground in 1983 ? was so they could knock down the old rugby league stadium . |
| 7 | Mow , mow down the tender grass Ebalgume ! |
| 8 | If we were minded to go down the new settlement line ? |
| 9 | Mr Biermann , who is visiting his mother at her home in Elton Road , wrote the books to rebuild his life after a stroke in 1989 left him paralysed down the right hand side of his body . |
| 10 | ( For details on how to drain down the central heating system , see Chapter 13 . ) |
| 11 | There will be occasions when you want to drain down the cold water system . |
| 12 | Next morning I was driving down the single village street when I saw Mrs Bailes coming out of the shop . |
| 13 | If his vigilance fails , he faces the wrath of ordinary people : depositors whose savings are at risk and taxpayers whose money is used to stop one bank collapse from knocking down the entire banking system . |
| 14 | After the stale fug in the tiny cabin , she gulped down the clean sea air , the car window wide open . |
| 15 | made it down the right hand side , he 's wearing number eleven but he came down the right hand side on this occasion and er a deep cross , he pulled it back brilliantly and who 'd missed that earlier header was there and could n't really miss on this occasion , but it was a fine header by him . |
| 16 | I clasp the mahogany handle just as the door shivers its infection and walk down the crazy paving path as each stone vaporises one step behind me . |
| 17 | Armed with this information , the genealogist should be able to track down the relevant baptism entry in a parish or nonconformist register in the years before civil registration began . |
| 18 | The Captain 's men were already clattering down the broad stone staircase , ignoring the slow old li– . |
| 19 | Hewlett-Packard Co is racing down the object-oriented programming road and last week it inaugurated a distributed-object-computing programme that it says will accelerate its efforts to develop and deliver a distributed object computing environment for heterogeneous networked systems . |
| 20 | and ski down the green pit stack . |
| 21 | More designers are going down the locking tuner route and it 's something which I personally welcome ; it does away with that lumpiness at the nut end of the fingerboard and offers up a more traditional look into the bargain . |
| 22 | Growing companies are among those most at risk , she claims , when going down the old-fashioned selection route . |
| 23 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 24 | Every few weeks I would get one or two days off duty to catch the ferry to Nanaimo and motor down the scenic Malahat Drive to Victoria . |
| 25 | It was reported on Aug. 1 that the Albanian government had closed down the Albanian State Bank 's foreign exchange department after losses totalling $170,000,000 were disclosed in the department 's foreign exchange trading since 1988 . |
| 26 | But only Motherwell have shown interest and Hauser turned down the Premier League side after failing to agree personal terms . |
| 27 | The barmaid turned down the chintzy bed cover . |
| 28 | Spokesman David Williams is , however , anxious to play down the Red Menace theory . |
| 29 | That will involve , subject to planning permission , pulling down the old Knowles garage and building luxury apartments . |
| 30 | They wink , they pout , they gobble down the complimentary potato salad . |