Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High levels of mercury have been reported from Faroese for some years , and the Health Department there has advised islanders to cut down on the amount of whalemeat they eat . |
| 2 | From year to year they used the same handrails to go down into the past : lifting the cartwheel at the crossroads , the drilling sessions by the river , the first ambush , marching at night between the safe houses , the different characters in the houses , the food , the girls … |
| 3 | Back at Templecombe , now over his shock , Mandeville paced around like an angry cat , hurling abuse at Santerre , telling Lady Beatrice to stop screaming and order servants to go down to the village and bring wise women to attend to Southgate . |
| 4 | Ramblers were often trained as weeping standards , with their stems tied to a vertical pole and then fanned out over a series of hoops to cascade down to the ground . |
| 5 | Generating company managers had merely allowed water levels to run down in the hope that the drought would eventually end ; only in March 1992 did they admit to a disaster , announcing nationwide rationing which was currently believed to be costing the economy an estimated US$330,000 each week . |
| 6 | Allow the flames to die down with the pan off the heat . |
| 7 | It took him twenty minutes to get down to the town centre and turn into the street of tatty terraced houses behind the bus station were Nails lived . |
| 8 | The Home Secretary Michael Howard has announced measures to cut down on the amount of police paperwork and put more officers back onto the streets . |
| 9 | It was tedious , but no longer alarming , and as she contrived most mornings to slip down to the shore for gulps of sea air , though she was careful now never to go beyond the rocks around the headland , she did not chafe at the confinement as once she had . |
| 10 | NEW LAWS to clamp down on the carrying of knives in Scotland were ‘ nodded through ’ without dissent in the Commons yesterday . |
| 11 | There were also some complicated sleeping arrangements to juggle : all Emma 's friends were to stay in the ‘ commun ’ while most of the rest of the young people brought sleeping bags and pillows to put down on the marquee floor . |
| 12 | You 'll have to pass under the gate-towers to get down to the west . |
| 13 | One of the worst incidents involved the shooting on March 11 of 19 Hindu engineers at a textile factory in Harkishanpura which had defied orders by Sikh militants to close down during the state elections in February [ see p. 38762 ] . |