Example sentences of "it [vb past] down the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 2 | fix your diary , a lot of you were n't here last week , oh by the way P C is er coming along with a film , it broke down the other week , you all enjoyed the talk so I do hope you come along to see the film , it only takes about twenty minutes and it 's on er security , you know , it 's for your own benefit |
| 3 | There was no roof and the rain that had fallen in the night left dark stripes where it trickled down the greasy surface of the cows ' rumps . |
| 4 | For instance , it kept down the direct cost of media to the consumer . |
| 5 | This regime , however , did not always guarantee a satisfactory result , as in the case of the tower he added to Wroxton church , Oxfordshire ( 1747–8 ) , the top stage of which rapidly collapsed — as Walpole pointedly reported : ‘ Mr Miller … unluckily once in his life happened to think rather of beauty than of the water-tables , and so it fell down the first winter ’ — but that does not seem to have affected his popularity . |
| 6 | Handing him one of the cans , she drank from her own , and coughed as it went down the wrong way . |