Example sentences of "[to-vb] down a [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gone are the days when you had to slide down a muddy bank and hold an old mercury one at arms length . |
| 2 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 3 | Moran said : ‘ Director Jack Walker 's money has enabled the manager to put down a good foundation and if we can get Roy coming in alongside the likes of Alan Shearer , the club will really be going places . ’ |
| 4 | having to cut down a little bit but I enjoy my look at Dartmoor when I get out there and I 'm busy with the church and |
| 5 | During the 1930s , however , it was the Conservatives who capitalized most effectively on the larger consequences of the Wall Street Crash , using them not only to bring down a Labour Government and introduce tariffs aimed at imperial consolidation , but also to promote among the masses the spirit of patriotic self-congratulation so eloquently projected by Stanley Baldwin : |