Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | ( For details on how to drain down the central heating system , see Chapter 13 . ) |
| 6 | One girl stopped the others to ask advice about how to write down the ghostly sound of a door opening . |