Example sentences of "[to-vb] down a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . " |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That 's generally ample time for you to close down a database without panic , and to switch off the computer in an orderly fashion . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ By murdering President Rene Muawad , his assassins chose to strike down a man of dialogue and reconciliation , ’ the secretary-general , Ms Catherine Lalumiere , said . |