Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] down the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they 're becoming as disabled as you think they are , they wo n't be allowed just to go down the way to the shops will they if the nearest shops are twenty miles down the road ! |
| 2 | Independent radio group , GWR , which joined the USM in March and recently merged with Consolidated Radio Holdings , has warned the media sector not to talk down the buoyancy of the industry . |
| 3 | Independent radio group , GWR , which joined the USM in March and recently merged with Consolidated Radio Holdings , has warned the media sector not to talk down the buoyancy of the industry . |
| 4 | THE White House is still trying desperately to live down the story of US President Bill Clinton 's 200 dollar haircut — almost a week after the trim aboard Air Force One closed down part of Los Angeles airport . |
| 5 | The Magyars were a nomad people of the steppes , claiming kinship with those Huns who briefly occupied the Danubian basin in the fifth century and who helped finally to bring down the edifice of Roman power in the West . |
| 6 | In practice , ethnographers tend rather to play down the question of whether their particular group is typical of others , but the reader must recognize that the choice of group is a kind of sampling , and the question of representativeness must arise . |
| 7 | Benjamin asked , turning his chair slightly to look down the table at Dacourt . |
| 8 | He stood back to look down the line of her figure under the flimsy nightgown , his eyes caressing her as blatantly as if she had been naked . |
| 9 | There are almost as many cattle as before the drought , and the 100 000 tonnes of food aid a year goes mainly to keep down the price of food in the cities . |
| 10 | However , if his quest was originally to break down the stranglehold of the rock system , would he have settled for such a four-square format ? |
| 11 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 12 | Instead , the alcohol acts chemically to slow down the digestion of the food . |
| 13 | She kicked off her shoes on the carpet , and slid back silently to listen down the well of the staircase ; and picking up from this level only minor and ambiguous sounds , she went quickly down again one floor , to where she could lean cautiously over the glossy black banister , and train both eyes and ears upon any activity in the hall below . |
| 14 | At last , just as Hazel was about to run down the slope to Blackberry 's burrow , he saw him come out of his hole , followed by no less than three rabbits . |
| 15 | Indeed , it was found to be difficult sometimes to keep down the number of journals to a manageable size . |
| 16 | What the MLC is doing is trying to keep the meat-eating habit going ; to expand — or at least to slow down the contraction of — the overall market . |
| 17 | Rober Mazur can reasonably claim to have done more than anyone else to bring down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |