Example sentences of "to bring the [noun] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er where the used to bring the slates down from |
| 2 | I want you to bring the nurse down here and let her tell you what she told me . |
| 3 | Even the threat of these reforms may be enough to bring the government down . |
| 4 | The miners have also failed to win the kind of support from other workers necessary to bring the government down . |
| 5 | To bring the price down , Toyota has dropped the electric sunroof , radio-cassette player , anti-theft system and ‘ some ’ seat adjustment . |
| 6 | Buyers on their part will make similar calculations ; and if at any time the price should rise considerably above 36s. they will argue that the supply will be much greater than the demand at that price : therefore even those of them who would rather pay that price than go unserved , wait ; and by waiting they help to bring the price down . |
| 7 | We thought we should force them to bring the price down . |
| 8 | Mr Waigel is too optimistic about growth , they say , and relies too heavily on tax increases to bring the deficit down . |
| 9 | He told himself that he should go right now and plant the explosives to bring the tunnel down , but the Doctor 's curiosity was one of his strongest features . |
| 10 | At the at the Gorbels and after I was married During the war there was a terrific fire and he was burned to death in the lift going up to bring the girls down . |
| 11 | Mr Morton needs to bring the contractors down from their revised cost forecast of £7.5bn . |
| 12 | If not , does he have the firepower to bring the curtain down on the champ shortly after the fight 's sundown beginnings ? |
| 13 | Taylor wishes that in Sweden he had substituted the frustrated Gary Lineker with the pace of Tony Daley in the second match against France , rather than wait for the third and final game against Sweden to bring the curtain down on his captain 's international career . |
| 14 | I knew it was a deliberate attempt from the word go to bring the band down . |
| 15 | It was Eric 's turn next : his presenter appeared in jogging track suit , and false beard , and needed to do little more than puff heavily round the stage several times intoning ‘ no , not on the roof , no , not on the roof , to bring the house down , rousing laughter even from those who did not know that these were the mysterious words that the Warden had uttered in a loud cry when abruptly roused from slumber during a session of group therapy . |
| 16 | If the Tories ' supporters in 1970 had liked the sound of anti-union radicalism , a significant number had decided by 1974 that it threatened to bring the house down around their ears . |
| 17 | Evans made the saving tackle , just as he did when Tony Stanger , having barn-stormed out of Wayne Proctor 's tackle , threatened to bring the house down in a move created by Craig Chalmers ' adroit collection of Mike Rayer 's kick , the irrepressible Armstrong arcing out of harm 's way on a touchline blast and the thumping support of Cronin and Kenny Milne ( one tighthead to the good ) . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's going to bring the plane down on the swamp ! ’ cried Brown Owl sharply and suddenly . |
| 19 | It was a simple attempt to bring the plane down , but one that required sound engineering knowledge . |
| 20 | But if you widen the pavements and you differentiate the pavements from the roadway , and you use continental traffic calming measures which are not great big humps but which are perhaps little stretches of cobbles and things like that , then you should be able to bring the speed down to twenty miles an hour . |
| 21 | The activated silica is prepared by the addition to a solution containing 1.5–1.8% sodium silicate of an acid to bring the pH down to 5 . |
| 22 | After a few attempts , which often result in catching the ball off the toe , the player begins to feel how necessary it is to turn away fully in the backswing and to bring the club down on the correct path . |
| 23 | Archie , my eldest boy who lived at Belton , used to bring the groceries down to the cart-shod at the other side of the river . |
| 24 | and he was fobbed off with an under-secretaryship ; in 1922 he worked actively to bring the coalition down . |
| 25 | The likely aim , to bring the bridge down onto the track . |