Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] down the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chilled though she was by the bleakness of his voice , it was not enough to damp down the new life in her head . |
| 2 | Whether Rainbow remembers or not , history will never know , because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way . |
| 3 | And he he more or less laid down the whole theory of probability , in a few days , Pascal |
| 4 | It seems that many people , perhaps without even thinking about it , would rather do down the other player than cooperate with the other player to do down the banker . |
| 5 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 6 | The Captain 's men were already clattering down the broad stone staircase , ignoring the slow old li– . |
| 7 | Readers from last month will be glad to know that I finally tracked down the elusive Tequila based Marguerita in a Tex-Mex cafe in Covent Garden . |
| 8 | Is that significantly different from zero right , well you just go down the right hand column in degrees of freedom until we reach thirty . |
| 9 | The Balkans underwent successive crises of competing nationalisms , one of which finally brought down the pre-1914 structure of European power . |
| 10 | If you do n't find that plausible for some particular example that you have imagined , just turn down the imaginary light a bit , or move a bit further away from the imaginary object ! |
| 11 | Athelstan hid a smile , looking at the sweat still pouring down the fat coroner 's face , the great , stout stomach wobbling with a mixture of pride and anger . |
| 12 | Donna rarely ventured down the wooden ladder into it ; it was not well lit and , despite Ward–s attempts to convince her otherwise , she was certain that the entire cellar was seething with spiders , creatures she was frightened of . |
| 13 | It also laid down the constitutional right for anyone who passed the Abitur — the German equivalent of A levels — to study at university . |
| 14 | For a time it was popular to suggest that reversals in the earth 's magnetic field , which we know to have been sudden , may have temporarily broken down the protective shield provided by the van Allen Belt against cosmic rays and so stimulated evolution by way of genetic mutation . |
| 15 | Double-digit inflation has also pushed down the average soldier 's standard of living . |
| 16 | Indeed , by channelling the perceptual cycle and , in so doing also slowing down the looking process , grid technique extends the period of appraisal in a way that counters those rapid and dismissive habits associated with functional looking . |
| 17 | It probably slowed down the whole process a bit , but it made it all much safer . ’ |
| 18 | Cats have been known to laze , apparently half-asleep , for up to an hour beside a mouse hole , yet instantly to cut down the unwary prey that , even momentarily , shows itself . |
| 19 | In the same memorandum of April 1986 that eventually brought down the whole house of cards — the memorandum that mentioned the diversion of funds to the contras — an extraordinary phrase appeared : ‘ The Iranians have been told that our presence in Iran is ‘ a holy commitment ’ . ’ |
| 20 | But Gloucester also insisted throughout that he stood for the continuance of Edward IV 's regime , an emphasis which inevitably played down the political significance of the ‘ outs ’ . |
| 21 | But Gloucester also insisted throughout that he stood for the continuance of Edward IV 's regime , an emphasis which inevitably played down the political significance of the ‘ outs ’ . |
| 22 | If we can now move down the clinical axis to level 5 — that of the individual patient — there have been various trials in techniques of patient costing ; designed by definition , to calculate the cost of treating each patient . |
| 23 | The man now walked down the central aisle and halted beside the projector , where he turned and spoke . |
| 24 | And now the child watched Ben slowly lay down the half-eaten trotter and hold up both hands before his large face . |
| 25 | For more than two weeks prior to Oct. 29 , the Central Bank had been selling an estimated US$50,000,000 in gold each day , in efforts to keep down the gold price ( and thereby to hold down the black-market dollar rate , whose divergence from the official rate provided a barometer of business confidence ) . |
| 26 | Peter usually wore the number 11 shirt but frequently operated down the right flank . |
| 27 | But the European Commission has so far shown no signs of stopping or even slowing down the HDMAC development programme . |
| 28 | Well ran down the bottom bit ! |
| 29 | Better sacks have bound seams which do at least slow down the leaking process . |
| 30 | They leered at each other , then tittupped down the polished wood of the stairs , clutching the banisters . |