Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] down [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " They claimed that they ought to be [ treated as ] free coloni by birth , and that Deodadus the monk [ responsible for running the Mitry estate ] wanted unjustly to bend them down into an inferior service by force , and to afflict them . " |
| 2 | It would be too easy to put everything down to a typical case of hysteria , but what if there was something else , some underlying cause ? |
| 3 | The oriental had released them from their cells a short time before , and ordered them to precede him down through an open trapdoor into a secret escape tunnel . |
| 4 | They did come in , and it took seven of them to get me down to a single cell . |
| 5 | The two belligerents having accepted this text in principle , Perez de Cuellar 's task , involving a bout of shuttle diplomacy , was now to pin them down to an actual cease-fire on the ground . |
| 6 | Slippery Elm you see you had to tape it down to a fine point and then insert it you see , and if you did n't get the right place well it 'd kill you . |
| 7 | transformer to bring it down to a lower voltage . |