Example sentences of "[v-ing] down the [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terrorists know that by hitting commercial buildings and their insurers they are also hitting at a British Government faced with potentially huge underwriting costs even as it is desperate to find ways of bringing down the public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 2 | Next morning I was driving down the single village street when I saw Mrs Bailes coming out of the shop . |
| 3 | If his vigilance fails , he faces the wrath of ordinary people : depositors whose savings are at risk and taxpayers whose money is used to stop one bank collapse from knocking down the entire banking system . |
| 4 | The Captain 's men were already clattering down the broad stone staircase , ignoring the slow old li– . |
| 5 | Hewlett-Packard Co is racing down the object-oriented programming road and last week it inaugurated a distributed-object-computing programme that it says will accelerate its efforts to develop and deliver a distributed object computing environment for heterogeneous networked systems . |
| 6 | More designers are going down the locking tuner route and it 's something which I personally welcome ; it does away with that lumpiness at the nut end of the fingerboard and offers up a more traditional look into the bargain . |
| 7 | Growing companies are among those most at risk , she claims , when going down the old-fashioned selection route . |
| 8 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 9 | These days , Bilardo is constrained to do his team coaching down the transatlantic telephone line , since half his squad play in Italy , France or Spain . |
| 10 | These days , Bilardo is constrained to do his team coaching down the transatlantic telephone line , since half his squad play in Italy , France or Spain . |
| 11 | Now use the four-arrow icon by holding down the left mouse button on the left pointing arrow , so as to make sure that you are as far to the left as possible . |
| 12 | Looking our of the aircraft window , we were flying down the Red Seat coast , the water aquamarine , coral reefs pale and shimmering beneath the water surface . |
| 13 | singing We are happy , on Wednesday fourteenth of July , nineteen ninety three , on Trent F M and skipping down the yellow brick road of life with Deanna Carol and her Special kind of love . |
| 14 | If BL , with its strong union presence , is prepared to negotiate changes in the work organisation of maintenance when microelectronics-controlled machinery is first installed , and management makes some headway in breaking down the traditional craft structure , then presumably substantial changes are on their way in other companies . |
| 15 | But the European Commission has so far shown no signs of stopping or even slowing down the HDMAC development programme . |
| 16 | These figures suggest that interviewing by telephone is not a particularly good way of cutting down the high refusal rate customary in sociolinguistic surveys ; but interestingly , Nordberg ( 1980 ) reports a very much lower refusal rate in Sweden . |
| 17 | For a second Chrissie just stood by the grill , half watching the toast , half frowning , glancing along the hallway to where Linda was standing , staring down the front garden path . |
| 18 | On Aug. 17 Lewandowski had said that he would recommend shutting down the entire copper complex , which included the Lubin mines , if the strike continued . |
| 19 | On Aug. 17 Lewandowski had said that he would recommend shutting down the entire copper complex , which included the Lubin mines , if the strike continued . |
| 20 | In imagination Mrs. Pridmore followed her daughter as she pedalled vigorously on her way ; bumping down the rough farm track between Mr. Bowlem 's flat fields to Tenpenny Road , past old Mrs. Button 's cottage where , as a child , she had been given rice-cake and home-made lemonade , by Tenpenny Dyke where she still picked cowslips in summer , then a right turn into Chevisham Road and the straight two miles skirting Captain Massey 's land and into Chevisham village . |
| 21 | The system is very smooth , with actions selected either by moving the cursor to the top of the screen , or by clicking down the other mouse button which scrolls through the actions . |
| 22 | When a popular war hero emerged , like Lt William Leefe Robinson , awarded the VC in 1916 for shooting down the first enemy airship over British soil , the jobbing printers , metal benders and celluloid crimpers worked overtime . |
| 23 | With Boro plummeting down the Premier League table , Lawrence warned : ‘ One or two will have to go , and new players will have to come in . ’ |