Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] down the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full of confidence , Pliny tried to calm down the overwrought Pomponianus , and to demonstrate his own unconcern , went off to freshen up in the local baths , and subsequently sat down to eat a hearty meal . |
| 2 | Gooch , typically , tried to play down the huge blow to England his own illness has been . |
| 3 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 4 | He tried to break down the father-role position doctors held , so the patients could feel more relaxed and see him almost as an equal . |
| 5 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 6 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |
| 7 | The four men looked up as he came scrambling down the steep bank . |
| 8 | The brief silence seemed to stretch down the long room and hold fast by the pillars of the door , and every eye in the hall fixed greedily on the three at the high table . |
| 9 | He stopped trembling as quickly as he had begun a moment before and seemed to withdraw down the dark passage to the daydream he was locked in when they first arrived . |
| 10 | I made 400 before great arcing beams of light snaked out above the eastern-bounding ridges of the valley and I had to stop as blocks and slates came hurtling down the softening snow . |
| 11 | And then there Further up the glen from me , from our , house there 's a place called Dalnasnecht It 's a little place in the beside the water and beyond it there 's a great piece of ground on the hill and it was called er Argyll 's Reed where Argy Where all Where Argyll 's men stayed when they came to burn down the bonny house early , Forter Castle . |
| 12 | SERB Premier Milan Panic yesterday vowed to shut down the Yugoslav torture camps within 30 days . |
| 13 | The previous Polish government failed to shut down the famous Lenin shipyard in Gdansk . |
| 14 | Before Christine or Ann or any of the other girls playing realised what was happening , the pram began to run down the steep bank , gathering speed at every turn of its wheels . |
| 15 | The defences of Wytschaete were penetrated early in the morning and British troops immediately began to move down the eastern slopes of the ridge . |
| 16 | ACT decided to go down the object-oriented route for several reasons . |
| 17 | Since unionization levels among white-collar workers are about half those for blue-collar in both countries , this shift worked to pull down the average level of unionization even though more white-collar workers started to join unions . |
| 18 | ‘ Thank God , ’ he muttered , as he started to scramble down the last foot or two to seize the halter shank that dangled so near , and yet just out of his reach . |
| 19 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |
| 20 | At one stage , residents offered to lay down the sleeping policemen themselves , but the request was turned down . |
| 21 | Luce struggled to pin down the elusive thought , but it hovered , wraith-like , just out of reach , and in a minute or so was blotted out completely when she found herself being carried into a strange , and clearly masculine , bedroom . |
| 22 | She remembered looking down the sunny garden and feeling content . |
| 23 | The local skateboard club voted to take down the three foot of vert and use the vert sections to make up a flat bottom . |
| 24 | And Joanna had sped down the outer stairway , crying and joyous at once . |
| 25 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 26 | The youngster had fallen down the steep embankment on the Colchester side of the station , injuring her back and legs , and was unable to move . |
| 27 | Within days of the settlement Mass Observation reported widespread shame ‘ that we had let down the whole tradition of England 's pledges for honesty , fair play and resistance to threats . ’ |
| 28 | Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand . |
| 29 | Manager Trevor Francis confirmed yesterday that he had turned down the huge offer from Toulon . |
| 30 | Material things they had in plenty , and though they had moved to cheaper housing she could not actually remember feeling that they had moved down the social ladder at all . |