Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] down [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stewart plays down crowd 's stone attack |
| 2 | ON THE BAWL : David Kelly shouts down Steve Walsh |
| 3 | Killer bug shuts down baby ward |
| 4 | Labour turns down move towards electoral reform |
| 5 | Nigel Tinkler sends down Bank View to carry top weight and this Yorkshire trainer has a good record with his southern . |
| 6 | Russia plays down scale of Tomsk-7 blast |
| 7 | A British gunner shoots down enemy aircraft attacking his post … |
| 8 | The LIVER breaks down poisons and keeps the blood balanced . |
| 9 | Well she is like mine but just the one window opens down side , you know . |
| 10 | Under the SGA 1979 , s 17 property in the goods under a contract of sale generally passes when the parties intend it to pass ( although s 18 of the SGA lays down rules which apply if the intention of the parties can not be ascertained ) . |
| 11 | However , the injured party does not always have a free choice as the law lays down rules determining and limiting the scope of remedies . |
| 12 | The new law lays down penalties ranging from a £2,000 fine to five years imprisonment , with the heaviest penalties for those who actually cause pollution . |
| 13 | The Act lays down criteria , known as ‘ gateways ’ , by which restrictions may be justified . |
| 14 | Elderly residents moved as Board closes down home |
| 15 | Patten turns down Foxley Wood plan for ‘ instant town ’ : The decision to halt a scheme for 4,800 houses signals a shift in government policy , Richard North reports |
| 16 | Another feature of the next few years may be that the stronger venture capital firms will get stronger as the industry levels off and greater competition for business drives down returns . |
| 17 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 18 | Some 23 per cent believe that smoking keeps down weight . |
| 19 | The taxi goes down Paseo Escalon . |
| 20 | PHONEY TV SOAP GOES DOWN DRAIN |
| 21 | O'Connell shoots down Magpies |
| 22 | City lights Rowan Moore looks into the future metropolis ; Douglas Kennedy travels down Broadway with Nik Cohn |
| 23 | But when Nik Cohn walks down Broadway he writes 363 pages about it . |
| 24 | A useful image of cell diversification is of an undulating landscape in which a ball rolls down pathways that branch , an image that the British embryologist Conrad Waddington , writing in 1940 , called the epigenetic landscape . |
| 25 | At the junction of these rock types , springs form and the water runs down ravines to the sea unless diverted into levadas ( drainage channels ) . |
| 26 | A filing mechanism cuts down debtor misbehaviour because the availability of reliable information about the debtor 's property reduces the debtor 's incentive to misbehave by removing the opportunity to do so . |
| 27 | Aragorn puts down Andúril at the gate of the Golden Hall , and declares its name : ‘ The guard stepped back and looked with amazement ’ . |
| 28 | Robins strikes down Blades |
| 29 | There he goes — Who man turns down La 's hot seat |
| 30 | ‘ ( 1 ) Does Community law affect the conditions under which a member state lays down rules for determining which vessels are entitled to register in that state , to fly its flag and carry its nationality ? |