Example sentences of "[to-vb] down a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use your pistol to dispense with individual guards or your machine gun to mow down a line of enemies . |
| 2 | BOSNIA 'S UN commander General Philippe Morillon hoped to nail down a cease-fire between Serb , Moslem and Croat military chiefs today . |
| 3 | If someone could wave a magic wand , and I could change something , I think I 'd like to go down a couple of cup sizes . |
| 4 | Some , through failing health or eyesight , were obliged to go down a couple of rungs on the ladder however , and there are an increasing number of cases in the 1940s of former compositors working as copy-holders for lower pay . |
| 5 | We used to work down a row of bricks or tiles . |
| 6 | In such conditions , with clays deep and clinging enough to bog down a regiment of horses , the real issue was not one of scraping versus watering but of radical improvement in methods of building and repair . |
| 7 | They kept slipping away , as her father had already slipped away , with no more than a mumbled excuse , to jot down a line of verse that had presented itself while he stood in some abstraction . |
| 8 | Erm , but you wo n't remember all the things to test , as you forget very quickly , so as you 're building the spreadsheet , you ought to write down a list of things you 're going to go back and test . |
| 9 | Now it is possible to write down a sequence of matrices unc Mr ( r is usually n or n + 1 , depending on the variant employed ) which when used as a chain to premultiply A , condense it to the unit matrix , so that unc which evidently implies unc The numerical procedure is to operate successively on 91 ) ; given A we can write down M1 and we evaluate unc so that ( 1 ) becomes unc Knowing B we can now write down unc and form unc and so on , until R is obtained . |
| 10 | The final stage before the body leaves the body shop for the paint shop is normally for the completed welded body to pass down a line of welders and grinders . |
| 11 | Once she had written , another decision would have been taken , and he would tell them in the office that they were having a stab at Italy this year , he 'd managed to track down a villa in Tuscany . |
| 12 | He was able to track down a lot of detail about the original construction and decoration — so he could keep the design and get it back to what it was , but incorporate new features , like a Great Hall without all those pillars , which is much better from the customers ' point of view . " |
| 13 | Bass , for example , requires a tenant to put down a deposit of £1,000 before he can even contemplate arbitration . |
| 14 | If I regurgitate this , it is simply to put down a vote of censure from this column on ministers , particularly Douglas Hogg of the Foreign Office , who did nothing to prepare for the eventuality of oil slicks . |
| 15 | Middlesbrough Council is to reconsider its decision to turn down a request for help from the Church of the Holy Trinity , North Ormesby , which faces a £41,000 bill for repairs to its Grade II listed clock tower . |
| 16 | Middlesbrough Council is to reconsider its decision to turn down a request for help from the Church of the Holy Trinity , North Ormesby , which faces a £41,000 bill for repairs to its Grade II listed clock tower . |
| 17 | It takes hardly any time at all to swoosh down a can of cola , and neither does this seem to have any effect in satisfying the appetite . |
| 18 | ‘ The fire has been lit and allowed to die down a couple of times — and I once smelt the stuff . ’ |
| 19 | For example , the Bank of England would hardly have hesitated in the old days to close down a bank like BCCI , knowing that few first-rate domestic institutions were prepared to deal with it in quantity . |
| 20 | That 's generally ample time for you to close down a database without panic , and to switch off the computer in an orderly fashion . |
| 21 | However , quite apart from the fact that such a statement does not accommodate cases of emergency — cases where the defendant 's unlawful conduct could , unless restrained , cause serious and irreparable harm before trial , as for example where the defendant threatens to cut down a tree in breach of a tree preservation order — in other cases it is usually not so much the flagrancy of the breach as the fact that the defendant intends to persist in offending unless restrained by an injunction , which justifies the invocation of that form of relief : see City of London Corporation v. Bovis Construction Ltd . |
| 22 | We would have to cut down a lot of woodland , we would have to alter our environment substantially , and that is something that people have to bear in mind when advocating free-range . |
| 23 | An attempt to burn down a warehouse at Stockport was followed by rumours of secret gatherings , armings and oath taking and there was certainly talk of a general rising . |
| 24 | ‘ By murdering President Rene Muawad , his assassins chose to strike down a man of dialogue and reconciliation , ’ the secretary-general , Ms Catherine Lalumiere , said . |