Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] down [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing . |
| 2 | Norwich were trailing Grant , who has turned down a new contract , last season and have maintained their interest . |
| 3 | Former West Indies captain Viv Richards has turned down a lucrative offer to play Currie Cup cricket for South Africa 's Western Province . |
| 4 | Now that the Commission has turned down the unanimous decision of the Catering Sub-Committee to invite the London food commission to give advice on how healthy and nutritious the food in the Members ' and Strangers ' Cafeterias is , what will the Leader of the House do to improve the situation ? |
| 5 | The suit seeks injunctive relief and monetary damages and the court has handed down a preliminary injunction forbidding sale of Axil 's Model 230 SparcStation 10 clone and a temporary restraining order on its Model 310 . |
| 6 | This means that British Coal has to shut down a large amount of its production capacity , and this they attempted last autumn . |
| 7 | And in 1994 , expect an IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Corp Windows NT port ‘ when NT has settled down a little bit , ’ says Schuster . |
| 8 | And in 1994 , expect an IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Corp Windows NT version ‘ when NT has settled down a little bit , ’ says Schuster . |
| 9 | The issue of whether to legalize abortion has brought down an Italian government , and yet the age of consent is fourteen , and furthermore sexual intercourse below that age is only illegal if the minor concerned brings charges . |
| 10 | She was blue when they carried her in , but it looks as though the stone has gone down the right way . ’ |
| 11 | Personality development is impaired when an individual has shut down a broad range of feelings and ways of relating , in the belief , unconsciously arrived at , that it is unsafe to do otherwise . |
| 12 | There are clinics attached to all the university and large municipal hospitals , but the government has shut down the local clinics because they deny that there is any problem . |
| 13 | No.9 Johansson scrags his opposite number while his opposite number while Ahlgren , Sweden 's wild and woolly warrior , looks to cut down the Taiwanese options in his side 's 20–12 Sicily Trophy quarter-final defeat . |
| 14 | He lacks social adroitness , or any kind of personal magnetism , as he struggles to hold down a charmless job which depends on the goodwill of others . |
| 15 | It involves cutting down the main trunk to encourage new growth from the edge of the stump . |
| 16 | A green ( yes green ) tinged under-base or moisturiser helps to tone down a ruddy complexion . |
| 17 | This helps to tone down the bodily reactions to mental stress , and can therefore moderate a symptom such as diarrhoea , even though the primary cause of that diarrhoea is a reaction to food . |
| 18 | Now let's keep reminding you about the time situation , sixty five minutes gone , Shrewsbury have another twenty five minutes in which to hang on here , it 's Shrewsbury three , Blackburn Rovers two , it 's gon na be a nervous evening here for the normally placid Shropshire folk at as that ball is headed forward by and here 's , again in field to , clipped forward for Mike , here comes advancing towards the edge of the penalty area , he 's got ta try and get past the brick wall of , and it 's now who tries to release down the right hand side , he 's got ta get past , he does so , he gets the ball across and that one is cleared importantly by only as far as who tries to hook it back in and that the ball would n't reach him and it would n't reach either and it 's gone out for a goal kick to Shrewsbury . |
| 19 | It has no calories of its own , but it does slow down the metabolic rate , making it harder to burn up the calories you do consume . |
| 20 | When a vigorous secondary fermentation begins to die down the soft peg is replaced with a hard one to keep the gas inside the cask , which gives the beer a natural sparkle in the glass . |
| 21 | obviously , but he 's , he 's gone down , I , I can see he 's gone down a little bit |
| 22 | The digestive system of the cat is less successful in this respect and often fails to break down the dangerous elements in ingested substances to make them harmless . |