Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] down the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose you think I mean I want to walk down the aisle in white with my friends watching , but that 's not it , that 's not what this feeling is to do with . |
| 2 | The fingerboard is ebony , with exquisite maple leaf inlays lacking nothing in detail as they appear to drift down the neck towards the body . |
| 3 | Residential homes , and long stay nursing homes in particular , appear to cut down the use of hospital care during the last year of people 's lives . |
| 4 | At the present time the English tend to play down the significance of affinal relationships but , even so , the statement " she has made a good marriage " is more likely to refer to the social and financial standing of the husband 's immediate kin than to the personal qualities of the husband himself . |
| 5 | But egalitarian feminists tend to play down the value of biological explanations . |
| 6 | Or remain to stare down the reflection of his own fear ? |
| 7 | Residential homes seem to cut down the use of hospital care ; they probably also reduce the need for it , but this is less certain . |
| 8 | They try to ram down the throat of the public what the public quite rightly does not want . |
| 9 | Frankly I think from our colleagues in the conservative party should n't really be wasting our time here with these silly motions , erm what 's needed is if you 're gon na improve the housing situation in the city and in the country as a whole , we need to be allowed to use our capital receipts , all the ones we 've piled up , and we need to also inject money into the national economy to build new homes and incidentally to get the economy moving again and start bringing down the level of unemployment . |
| 10 | I start breaking down the shape of the building into smaller ones as well . |
| 11 | I start breaking down the shape of the building into smaller ones as well . |
| 12 | Start running down the food in your freezer and fridge , so that they can be switched off and cleaned a couple of days before you move . |
| 13 | Do not be aggressive or start laying down the law about your rights . |
| 14 | Erm I 've broken down the costing into each of the sizes we will produce , the thirty three millilitres , the one litre and the two litre sizes . |
| 15 | Now just going on products , off the compost plant for the last six months , I 've gone through , I 've taken I 've noted down the number of samples taken , each month by month . |
| 16 | So , let's assume that we 've gone down the line of saying that , for a maximum value , Z X times Z Y equals Z X squared . |
| 17 | They help to cut down the number of acne bacteria in the blocked-up grease glands and reduce painful inflammation . |
| 18 | The British banks which have written down the value of their loans most aggressively may be attracted by the fund , says Jim Mellon , a director of Tyndall . |
| 19 | Both for different , but similar , reasons have turned down the chance of participating in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona in July . |
| 20 | At a New Alresford Parish Council meeting last week , it was announced that Winchester city planners have turned down the application for change of use on the grounds of noise , odours and increased vehicle movement in a largely residential area . |
| 21 | Press it flat with the seam you have sewn down the back of the head of the puppet . |
| 22 | Both Argyle and Watkins in using the game model have to play down the competitiveness of games , for neither the social interactions of real life nor of drama are necessarily competitive . |
| 23 | In short , revisionist economic historians have played down the significance of the reforms introduced after 1905 , and controverted the liberal belief that it promised to bring social stability to the countryside . |
| 24 | We have nailed down the lid on the recession . |
| 25 | Manpower productivity has continued to rise and we have brought down the price of electricity in real terms since 1958 when the CEGB was established . ’ |
| 26 | Police have scaled down the search for a multiple rapist saying they 've no new leads to follow . |
| 27 | Police have scaled down the search for a man who commited at least two rapes , because they have no other leads to follow . |
| 28 | Fresh from their success they have thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of the Group . |