Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [verb] [to-vb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew Lees , campaigns director of FoE , said : " While the public has a right to know about what companies are allowed to put down the sewers , the details of their actual discharges are kept secret " . |
| 2 | Sometimes chemicals known as buffers are added to slow down the reaction rate thereby reducing corrosiveness . |
| 3 | The Podkrepa Trade Union Federation remained on strike alert from July 20 , but rejected the UDF accusation that its actions were intended to bring down the government . |
| 4 | Patients were asked to write down the highest of three blows for the paper and pencil diary and to enter the values of all three blows into the computer . |
| 5 | Four men were needed to hold down the steering oars , which bucked in their harnesses like panicked elephants . |
| 6 | Marshals had gone over to the rioters , and Yggdrasil had had to override their control of the andrews being used to put down the insurrections . |