Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] down [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stewart plays down crowd 's stone attack |
| 2 | With MainWin , the Windows applications will reportedly run in native mode with no intervening emulation level to bog down performance . |
| 3 | Killer bug shuts down baby ward |
| 4 | ‘ May I borrow your car to go down town ? ’ |
| 5 | Labour turns down move towards electoral reform |
| 6 | The Great Britain international hooker charged down full-back Garry Jack 's clumsy attempt to kick up field and then pounced over the line , Paul Eastwood adding the two points . |
| 7 | Talent going down drain . |
| 8 | on the Rhone pouring down snow |
| 9 | They used Druze fighters as a colonial militia just as they used members of the minority Muslim Alawite community in Syria to put down Sunni Muslim nationalist revolt . |
| 10 | Provided that all the controls can be locked to prevent them getting damaged by slamming against the stops , parking the aircraft facing down wind will be safest , because then the wing is meeting the airflow at a negative angle . |
| 11 | It had taken some labour to restore : a gang of builders had spent months ripping down hardboard partitions , taking out gas meters , attempting to rescue old parquet flooring , refitting windows , stripping paint from tiles . |
| 12 | Instead of scraping them , a heavy expenditure was incurred on pumps , carts and hired labour to keep down dust levels by watering : " the mud indeed is so very deep all the winter and so fluid after rain , as to render it unsafe to meet horses , owing to their feet throwing the mud not only over an horseman 's clothes but also into his eyes " . |
| 13 | Yesterday traders tracked down show chairman Alistair McCloud to his hotel room in Aylesbury , but he refused to answer the door . |
| 14 | ‘ The deal fell down party because there were a lot of unanswered problems — chiefly whether there was a book at all . ’ |
| 15 | Piers lay down flat on his towel , pulling an old cap over his eyes . |
| 16 | There is no doubting the determination of Alan Greenspan to hold down inflation , but he does not enjoy the same political independence as Germany 's Bundesbank . |
| 17 | Nigel Tinkler sends down Bank View to carry top weight and this Yorkshire trainer has a good record with his southern . |
| 18 | This meant that the District Officers ' opposition to the proposals of wildlife conservationists who wanted Masai land was just as uncompromising as their opposition to settlers ; and , then as now , the appearance of indifference to the interests of picturesque and harmless animals brought down odium on the heads of those presumed guilty of it . |
| 19 | The first was an attempt to break down demarcation between skilled trades doing maintenance work — the moving towards so-called ‘ two-trades maintenance ’ . |
| 20 | Even though the beef industry is taken aback by the sudden jump in prices , the general opinion is that they will stick until at least July — and could harden in the long term if CAP reform and a further round of milk quotas push down breeding numbers . |
| 21 | Russia plays down scale of Tomsk-7 blast |
| 22 | A British gunner shoots down enemy aircraft attacking his post … |
| 23 | Last November the executive committee turned down North Down 's application . |
| 24 | But killers gun down teenager |
| 25 | Well she is like mine but just the one window opens down side , you know . |
| 26 | Topaz walked down Lovat 's drive in a daze . |
| 27 | The rights issue proceeds will be injected into the ICI rump to allow the former parent to pay down debt . |
| 28 | Well , I 've got fre , I 've got bills to pay down town . |
| 29 | Sir John , dismounting , ( sound-effect of six galvanised buckets rolling down flight of concrete steps ) makes his pronouncement . |
| 30 | The Severn had the longest uninterrupted stretch , and its 20- to 80-ton open barges carried down coal from Shropshire and salt from Droitwich , as well as agricultural produce , and brought up iron from the Forest of Dean for the Midlands metal makers , and a whole range of goods and groceries from Bristol . |