Example sentences of "[adv] try [to-vb] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us not constantly try to talk down the coal industry . |
| 2 | Those closest to Camilla yesterday tried to play down the scandal . |
| 3 | Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir , himself Polish-born , had once commented that " Poles suck in anti-Semitism with their mothers ' milk " , and a main purpose of Walesa 's visit was to ease the strains between the two countries centring on enduring Polish anti-Semitism ; Walesa himself was still trying to live down the controversy caused by a statement during his 1990 presidential campaign that he was " clean " because his family had no Jewish blood . |
| 4 | He is now trying to pull down the house about the ears of Winchester 's Tories . |
| 5 | Strikingly , MITI frequently tried to slow down the rate of accumulation to avoid overcapacity , a problem exacerbated by the increasing size of new plants which reduced the number to be built each year . |
| 6 | Read it aloud half a dozen times then try to set down the framework and some key ‘ trigger words ’ on half a dozen index cards . |