Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] down a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WREXHAM Maelor Borough Council last night again refused to say Yes or No to a bid to knock down a former hospital despite being warned it could face legal action . |
| 2 | I remember once when she was climbing into bed in her Waaf-issue blue striped pyjamas , a cheeky little field mouse popped up from between her sheets where it had evidently been nesting , and streaked across the hut to disappear down a convenient crack in the wooden wall . |
| 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 | Periodically the Fists would assist a planetary governor to put down a troublesome insurrection . |
| 5 | By the early 1970s the increasing demand for higher education forced the government to lay down a new structure for higher education , embodied in the Hochschulrahrnengesetz . |
| 6 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |