Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [to-vb] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not true that the Government want to divert that money to keep down the poll tax in Wandsworth and Westminster ? |
| 2 | The Regional Health Authority voted this afternoon to shut down the specialist chest and orthopaedic hospital . |
| 3 | I usually park in Newgate Street , but when feeling unwell have occasionally parked on this road to cut down the walking . |
| 4 | It 's the only good thing to come from this threat to cut down the forest . |
| 5 | Bernice said , her archaeologist 's mind ever alert to any opportunity to pin down the Doctor to a specific date . |
| 6 | The united front put up by the other EC leaders was made possible by the West German Chancellor , Dr Helmut Kohl , who abandoned any attempt to slow down the decision on an inter-governmental conference . |
| 7 | It only takes a current of a few nanoamps to develop enough voltage to break down the insulation and make a hole in the silicon . |
| 8 | You only have to think of the otherwise incomprehensible behaviour of someone who hails a cab with a flailing gesture of the outstretched arm and who , having failed , then feels it necessary to provide an account of what happened by using the same hand to smooth down the hair . |