Example sentences of "[verb] down the [adj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 2 | If Unisys Corp 's iAPX-86-with-everything Unix strategy succeeds in building a substantial customer base , particularly among the company 's long-standing mainframe customers , the strategists at AT&T Co , whose NCR Corp is galloping down the same track and has a more extensive Intel Corp-based product line , will have to start weighing up whether a bid for Unisys could be made to make sense : AT&T would likely want a recommended offer , coupled with arrangements for a management buyout of at least one of the conflicting mainframe lines . |
| 3 | His eyes watered so fiercely that tears ran down his cheeks , but he fought down the choking sensation and his self-esteem soared . |
| 4 | If the Minister is saying that the proposal is liable to bog down the entire system and cause administrative chaos , he may be right as regards some of the effects . |
| 5 | ( If the proverb is not understood first time , the PP writes down the key word and then repeats the whole proverb up-to-time . ) |
| 6 | She remembered looking down the sunny garden and feeling content . |
| 7 | LABOUR MP Dennis Skinner believes three things will bring down the Royal Family and turn Britain into a republic — tax , television and history . |
| 8 | I gulp down the orange drink and order another one . |
| 9 | As I strolled down the next fairway and skirted a mass of heather which cut into the fairway on the angle of the dogleg , I wondered how my boss , Jack Mason , would fare in the tournament . |
| 10 | We run down the other end and have a go at Sunderland fans … and like against Villa when they all got pushed onto the pitch … we 're all in there … |
| 11 | I run down the spiral staircase and along the empty corridor . |
| 12 | After years of frustrated attempts to regain control of the site , Hindu extremists brought the issue to an explosive head this year by threatening to tear down the crumbling mosque and build a temple devoted to Lord Rama . |
| 13 | Firefighters spent more than eight hours at the scene , damping down the smouldering straw and attempting to discover how the blaze started . |
| 14 | We climbed down the notched-pole ladder and picked our way through the muddy ground towards the back path , passing the neatly stacked woodpile and the growing heap of freshly gathered pine-needles . |
| 15 | Stand some four yards or so behind the ball , look down the ball-to-target line and try to see the ideal shot in your mind . |
| 16 | The man now walked down the central aisle and halted beside the projector , where he turned and spoke . |
| 17 | I mean , the only way you could do that would be if you had a till at one end and people bought whatever they wanted and were given a voucher and you walked down the other end and exchanged |
| 18 | Liessa swings down the mounting ladder and lands with her legs locked around Laolith 's leathery neck . |
| 19 | Furthermore , eligibility for statutory payments declined down the occupational ladder and those eligible for payment earned more than those ineligible — findings particularly significant for women . |
| 20 | The brief silence seemed to stretch down the long room and hold fast by the pillars of the door , and every eye in the hall fixed greedily on the three at the high table . |
| 21 | They commissioned William White to build the church in 1871 , built a school and new cottages , pulled down the old manor and the cottages surrounding it and erected a large Victorian house . |
| 22 | At the height of the heatwave , with Hurley in Washington , Coleman finally had to notify the embassy that he was closing down the listening post and moving into the hotel across the street to save the equipment as well as the family from overheating . |
| 23 | With the RAF closing down the adjacent airfield and it going on the market next year , YAM ‘ hope to expand and seek to continue to expand ’ , remarked Ian . |
| 24 | Then followed a cruise round Zeeland and Fünen before passing once more through the Keil Canal , running down the Dutch coast and crossing the North Sea to Harwich . |
| 25 | On twenty minutes Dyer stormed down the left wing and sent in a perfect cross . |
| 26 | The girl 's ordeal lasted 12 hours until police broke down the front door and arrested five people . |
| 27 | He broke down the locked door and escaped , just as the master and his men returned . |
| 28 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 29 | My Bud went down the wrong way and I had a fit of choking . |
| 30 | The man who called himself Hope went down the sleepy cow-crossed and vagrant-strewn main street of Keswick with the speed and determination of the utterly resolved . |