Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I walked the 30 paces down the narrow alley to the very spot where the paper girl first heard the running steps of her assailant before she was knocked senseless .
2 Their spokesman said that the men were prepared to close down the generating plant immediately , but it would mean that the grid would go and that factories and hospitals would be without power for an indefinite time .
3 But these days it 's hard to track down the old equipment .
4 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 .
5 Although you may not be able to track down the precise cause under such circumstances , it can be possible to devise a means of overcoming the problem in most cases of this type .
6 Although the underlying reasons are not fully understood , it does appear that certain female sex hormones are able to damp down the dominant urge .
7 You end up er collapsed , taking deep breaths , and what that is trying to do is that the deep breaths are circulating oxygen into the body , the oxygen is then able to break down the lactic acid into other substances which are less harmful .
8 If you 're knitting a wide piece of knitting and changing the yarn less than every two rows , it 's advisable to lay down the driving lever .
9 We first write down the new resource column in P1/T1 using the formula ( 6.3 ) for .
10 To catch the offending shrimp , it is often necessary to strip down the entire tank , rock by rock , until it is found .
11 Consequently , degeneracy can not occur and , assuming b i , … , b m are integers , it is only necessary to round down the optimal solution to the perturbed problem to obtain an optimal solution to the original problem .
12 Spokesman David Williams is , however , anxious to play down the Red Menace theory .
13 More urgent was the need to find out why Piper had felt it necessary to shut down the neural net like this .
14 In hot weather some form of shading is necessary to keep down the internal temperature , as well as to shield plants from direct sunlight .
15 When the revolutions of 1989 brought down the eastern bloc dictatorships , they swept away the façade of historical half-truths , distortions and lies on which the ruling élites grounded their legitimacy .
16 As we have said , it 's not always possible to pin down the exact reason for Cystitis attacks , or why some women suffer so repeatedly .
17 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 .
18 Section 24 lays down the basic default rules as to the interests and duties of partners subject to their special agreements : The interests of partners in the partnership property and their rights and duties in relation to the partnership shall be determined , subject to any agreement express or implied between the partners , by the following rules : ( 1 ) All the partners are entitled to share equally in the capital and profits of the business , and must contribute equally towards the losses whether of capital or otherwise sustained by the firm .
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