Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days . |
| 2 | ‘ None of us would want to drop down a division , so we would have to close down the shop and go back to our day jobs . ’ |
| 3 | Was not the reason why the House thought it not plain that their lordships believed that Parliament did not have this situation in mind and would have cut down the wording if it had ? |
| 4 | An egoist who tries to ground his ethic in ‘ Be aware ’ would have to break down the analogy between personal and other viewpoints ; and to do so he could not appeal to the most obvious difference , that while ‘ here ’ and ‘ there ’ are exchanged by the agent 's movements , and ‘ now ’ is continuously changing into ‘ then ’ , he remains to himself unalterably ‘ I ’ . |
| 5 | Reactor operation could be manipulated , though for a PWR this would involve shutting down the reactor more frequently than usual . |