Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] down [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assiduous Cyril Cooper has stepped down as General Secretary to become vice-chairman and was recently honoured at a special lunch at Lord 's . |
| 2 | CalMac 's managing director , Colin Paterson , points out that his is possibly the only nationalised industry whose grant has gone down in real terms . |
| 3 | Abraham has gone down in Christian tradition as one of the great men of faith . |
| 4 | The government has backed down on performance-related contracts : doctors in inner-city areas will have to meet lower targets to win their bonuses . |
| 5 | If the purpose of these ivory carvings remains a matter for discussion , it is evident that Upper Palaeolithic man began the custom of using ivory as a medium for animal and human sculpture which has lasted down to modern times . |
| 6 | US prepares to clamp down on wild bird trade |
| 7 | In this area a seif-like dune forms , but away from the shelter of the cliff the influence of the prevalent wind is again felt and the seif-like dune tends to break down to isolated mounds and finally to barchans . |
| 8 | Voting was 169 to 114 , as Liberal Democrat and Labour peers joined rebel Tories to support the change to the controversial Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill which aims to clamp down on bogus asylum claims and speed genuine applications . |
| 9 | You may decide to ponder on why sometimes you are the centre of attention and why at others you are an outsider , or how alliances are formed , or why a group works well in one situation and becomes bogged down in other circumstances ' ? |
| 10 | But it does rot down as fine compost , solving the heavyweight problem of what to do with old phone books . |
| 11 | I mean , ranking of the countries descending as business in the way it changes , and Japan comes first , Germany 's gone down in recent years because of that trouble , but America has consistently been the major investor in this country . |