Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] down [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | At first the simple machines available could only detect down a few inches , and — amongst other operating difficulties — encounters with tufts of grass caused them to constantly give off false signals . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And he he more or less laid down the whole theory of probability , in a few days , Pascal |
| 5 | But the suspect must have noticed him , because he suddenly waved down a passing taxi and drove off . |
| 6 | Further uprisings occurred until 1649 when Oliver Cromwell , fresh from his victory in the English Civil War , brutally put down the recalcitrant Gaels . |
| 7 | Slugs can be a menace in the greenhouse in winter so put down a few slug pellets . |
| 8 | It 's hard enough to break down the old prejudices — I know that from experience . |
| 9 | So write down A three A. |
| 10 | He impulsively ran down the last flight of stairs . |
| 11 | During the 1930s , however , it was the Conservatives who capitalized most effectively on the larger consequences of the Wall Street Crash , using them not only to bring down a Labour Government and introduce tariffs aimed at imperial consolidation , but also to promote among the masses the spirit of patriotic self-congratulation so eloquently projected by Stanley Baldwin : |
| 12 | Despite the party leadership 's opposition to aspects of Mr Nemeth 's austerity measures , the budget is expected to be approved today , after parliament successfully watered down the controversial changes in housing policy which entailed steep rent rises and a sharp increase in mortgage payments . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 15 | Lobbying by pharmaceutical companies has already watered down a proposed directive which at first suggested forcing them to include detailed information on dosage and usage on advertisements . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The former England captain could not break down a determined Arsenal side who were playing for their places in the forthcoming FA Cup semi final against Tottenham . |
| 18 | They had slightly the better of the first half but a poor pass to Sleightholme lost one chance and then Sleightholme could not touch down a useful kick by Maynard , Stabler getting there first . |
| 19 | The Captain 's men were already clattering down the broad stone staircase , ignoring the slow old li– . |
| 20 | If you could just jot down a few ideas that . |
| 21 | The court in the Reference did not lay down a closed list : the public interest was the governing consideration . |
| 22 | The sociologist of religion ( usually ) does not just plonk down a whole lot of data and let the reader make what he or she will of it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Just coming down a little bit . |
| 25 | Why can we not go down the same road ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Is that significantly different from zero right , well you just go down the right hand column in degrees of freedom until we reach thirty . |
| 28 | The Balkans underwent successive crises of competing nationalisms , one of which finally brought down the pre-1914 structure of European power . |
| 29 | 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 ! |
| 30 | And a man to whom she had just thrown down a deliberate challenge . |