Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] down [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new regulatory body for the direct sales channel should cut down on the risks involved in buying a computer direct |
| 2 | , ’ If the quotation is a common one you could acknowledge this fact but turn it into a plus , ‘ We all know the lovely poem by John Masefield , which you can never tire of hearing , ( Pause ) ‘ I must go down to the seas |
| 3 | Instead of being critical , adversarial or even sceptical , the media should bow down to the needs of the country so as to encourage development across all sectors . |
| 4 | And he would go away , he would n't say , Come on we 'll go down to the cleaners and tell them , he would go away himself you see . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll take Lady Lassiter home , men , and then I 'll come down to the buildings . |
| 6 | Really , well I , I think I might pop down on the roses next year . |
| 7 | From where he stood , high up , he could look down on the roofs of the houses . |
| 8 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 9 | Every time I heard the wind rustling in the bushes or rattling the slates I 'd duck down under the covers , thinking of hooded ghosts stomping through the garden — or through the wall . |
| 10 | Even by the standards of ships that could set down upon the surfaces of worlds , the Tormentum Malorum was singularly sleek and streamlined for rapid departure or arrival through atmosphere . |
| 11 | We used to some of us other boys we 'd go down to the banks and the Winter time . |
| 12 | When there were , the engine driver would stop the train and get out of his cab and shoo them off , and sometimes he 'd wait so that everyone could get down from the carriages and stretch their legs and pick blackberries before they set off again . |
| 13 | I 'd hunch down under the covers with just an air-hole to breath through , and shelter there . |
| 14 | The longer this persisted , the hotter the planet got , because energy from the Sun could penetrate down through the clouds but was incapable of escaping back out through them ( the famous ‘ greenhouse effect ’ ) . |
| 15 | Australian Greg Norman may go down in the record-books as the unluckiest player in the major championships . |
| 16 | Well let's go down for the jars and then they can , see |
| 17 | Soon she would lie down in the arms of a stronger lover than Tom would ever be and fall asleep . |
| 18 | You must have got the message by now , so let's get down to the details . |
| 19 | How do you stop it getting into the environment , because if you hose it down it will wash down into the drains wo n't it ? |
| 20 | this match will go down in the records as a runaway victory for United but all the goals came in the last ten minutes … |
| 21 | I still believe that one day humanity will bow down before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed , and non-violent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land . |
| 22 | We can whip down to the Bricklayers for a pint . ’ |
| 23 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 24 | ‘ He is being given rations of hay which will slowly be increased and hopefully we can cut down on the drugs . |
| 25 | When you have made your list , try to decide — with the help of someone close and understanding if need be — how you can cut down on the pressures , or alter the circumstances , in order to relieve excess stress . |
| 26 | But the thing that I reflected on was here we were , into our third bombing year , and the mighty Eighth Air Force had come to our aid over thousands of miles of land and 2,000 miles plus of sea ; and they can come down through the clouds and land almost within sight of the place they were making for , with no navigation aids at all . |
| 27 | Well this you can sit down in the seats , you can look at the you can touch the tables , there 's not a lot of stuff but if if you got any sense of history you can get the feel of the place you know . |