Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chilled though she was by the bleakness of his voice , it was not enough to damp down the new life in her head . |
| 2 | Whether Rainbow remembers or not , history will never know , because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way . |
| 3 | And he he more or less laid down the whole theory of probability , in a few days , Pascal |
| 4 | It seems that many people , perhaps without even thinking about it , would rather do down the other player than cooperate with the other player to do down the banker . |
| 5 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 6 | The Captain 's men were already clattering down the broad stone staircase , ignoring the slow old li– . |
| 7 | Readers from last month will be glad to know that I finally tracked down the elusive Tequila based Marguerita in a Tex-Mex cafe in Covent Garden . |
| 8 | He went the long way home , but did not go down the little gang plank to the barge of a friend of his — a woman who kept ten or so cats on board and brewed some awful drink out of peaches . |
| 9 | Is that significantly different from zero right , well you just go down the right hand column in degrees of freedom until we reach thirty . |
| 10 | The Balkans underwent successive crises of competing nationalisms , one of which finally brought down the pre-1914 structure of European power . |
| 11 | If you do n't find that plausible for some particular example that you have imagined , just turn down the imaginary light a bit , or move a bit further away from the imaginary object ! |
| 12 | Athelstan hid a smile , looking at the sweat still pouring down the fat coroner 's face , the great , stout stomach wobbling with a mixture of pride and anger . |
| 13 | Donna rarely ventured down the wooden ladder into it ; it was not well lit and , despite Ward–s attempts to convince her otherwise , she was certain that the entire cellar was seething with spiders , creatures she was frightened of . |
| 14 | It also laid down the constitutional right for anyone who passed the Abitur — the German equivalent of A levels — to study at university . |
| 15 | For a time it was popular to suggest that reversals in the earth 's magnetic field , which we know to have been sudden , may have temporarily broken down the protective shield provided by the van Allen Belt against cosmic rays and so stimulated evolution by way of genetic mutation . |
| 16 | A special unit set up to track down the missing money has now traced around three hundred million pounds — but there could still be a long legal battle to get some of it returned . |
| 17 | Double-digit inflation has also pushed down the average soldier 's standard of living . |
| 18 | Indeed , by channelling the perceptual cycle and , in so doing also slowing down the looking process , grid technique extends the period of appraisal in a way that counters those rapid and dismissive habits associated with functional looking . |
| 19 | It probably slowed down the whole process a bit , but it made it all much safer . ’ |
| 20 | Cats have been known to laze , apparently half-asleep , for up to an hour beside a mouse hole , yet instantly to cut down the unwary prey that , even momentarily , shows itself . |
| 21 | In the same memorandum of April 1986 that eventually brought down the whole house of cards — the memorandum that mentioned the diversion of funds to the contras — an extraordinary phrase appeared : ‘ The Iranians have been told that our presence in Iran is ‘ a holy commitment ’ . ’ |
| 22 | But Gloucester also insisted throughout that he stood for the continuance of Edward IV 's regime , an emphasis which inevitably played down the political significance of the ‘ outs ’ . |
| 23 | But Gloucester also insisted throughout that he stood for the continuance of Edward IV 's regime , an emphasis which inevitably played down the political significance of the ‘ outs ’ . |
| 24 | If we can now move down the clinical axis to level 5 — that of the individual patient — there have been various trials in techniques of patient costing ; designed by definition , to calculate the cost of treating each patient . |
| 25 | The man now walked down the central aisle and halted beside the projector , where he turned and spoke . |
| 26 | And now the child watched Ben slowly lay down the half-eaten trotter and hold up both hands before his large face . |
| 27 | For more than two weeks prior to Oct. 29 , the Central Bank had been selling an estimated US$50,000,000 in gold each day , in efforts to keep down the gold price ( and thereby to hold down the black-market dollar rate , whose divergence from the official rate provided a barometer of business confidence ) . |
| 28 | Peter usually wore the number 11 shirt but frequently operated down the right flank . |
| 29 | they 've got a girl that works there right and her name her name is Linda and they run this big machine and it 's really long and he said if she 's at the top machine he ca n't see down the other end of the machine cos her boobs are in the way and he 's got I said you do n't ask her can sh he said yeah well he said I 've got ta ask her can she move out the way , he said if she sits on the table her boobs are resting on the table , I said oh I 'd crack up . |
| 30 | But the European Commission has so far shown no signs of stopping or even slowing down the HDMAC development programme . |