Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 2 | It was something to do with homing in more precisely on what had really happened , seeing if it was ever possible to pin down the truth . |
| 3 | In a Plinian eruption , it 's usually impossible to pin down the site of the vent exactly , since it stands a high chance of being obliterated or destroyed by the eruption itself . |
| 4 | Marlow is understandably keen to play down the word fungus , preferring to describe it as myco-protein and stress its undeniable virtues such as its high fibre and protein content , coupled with low fat and non-existent cholesterol . |
| 5 | The government saw it as essential to slim down the coal industry [ see p. 38781 ] in preparation for the eventual privatization of British Coal itself . |
| 6 | By having the individual numbers logged at a central computer , it is then possible to track down the dog 's owner without difficulty . |
| 7 | And at that stage it was too late to go down the rope so it was just instinct more than anything else that we just jumped over the side from where we were then . |
| 8 | Amidst such confusion as this , however , the press was more commonly inclined to shout down the leniency of magistrates , or ‘ this appalling apathy on the part of the police ’ , because if in some quarters the press were accused of bulling up the Hooligan affair , elsewhere the police were said to be playing it down . |