Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] down [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helped to break down isolation ( a particular problem in school meals where there are many small workplaces ) and to create feelings of solidarity and shared class interest . |
| 2 | It may be designed to cut down heat loss from the plant at night . |
| 3 | Sun is looking to shoot down Silicon Graphics Inc with Freedom , admitting that its graphics specialist neighbour in Mountain View , California , has been ‘ a major irritation to us over the last few years . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd like to go down daddy . |
| 5 | ca n't do it any other way , so I said oh I 'll go and have a look , I 've got to go down town and |
| 6 | The riots were put down by the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , with support from Serbia , in an apparent rebuttal of the Croatian authorities ; observers noted that this was the first time that the JNA , whose officer corps was dominated by ethnic Serbs , had been used to put down violence outside Serbia itself . |
| 7 | Attempting to run down RoboCop in a disused factory , Emil is immersed in toxic waste and emerges with his flesh dripping off . |
| 8 | Many say they have had to turn down surgery , for instance , because they could not find alternative care for their dependants when a bed became available . |
| 9 | In the longer term , however , we know that the UFC intends to force down unit costs as part of the expansion process and that if we do not expand we will have funding removed to bring us down to the unit of resource of those who have . |
| 10 | Erm , that neither of them can be here , they 're both attending the same meeting , 'cos I think it 's going to slow down progress , if that 's the case . |
| 11 | • Algae magnets can be used to hold down lettuce leaves for herbivorous fish . |
| 12 | I think they 're going to move down south . |
| 13 | In a scouting role they can be used to pin down enemy troops by getting within 8″ of them and thus preventing march moves . |
| 14 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 15 | In the first month of the new junta , 131 workers were reported killed as the military hardliners in government sought to clamp down op the unions . |
| 16 | Isabel Lavender began to smooth down finger after finger of her gardening gloves , intent upon maintaining appearances , even through domestic tasks . |
| 17 | It will mean constant uncertainty in the new parliament over which policies can be pushed through the House of Commons , and a constant pre-occupation with which minor parties might decide to vote down legislation , and when . |
| 18 | It 's easy to romanticize this basically squalid lifestyle and the repression is bound to slow down development . |
| 19 | There are believed to be anywhere between 50,000 and 100,000 migrant labourers from the Philippines , Indonesia and Thailand working illegally in Taiwan and helping to keep down wage levels . |
| 20 | Well it 's other people as well I think , but , I believe you do n't have to sit down conversation on your on do you ? . |
| 21 | This gave the ‘ Maranyl ’ business the tool it needed to drive down batch/run size . |
| 22 | Operators decided to clean down equipment regularly , not just superficially , but by taking it to pieces . |
| 23 | What are you having to put down dear ? |
| 24 | So they kept changing the man on the next machine , and until he could talk him into using the System , William 's grandad would have to lurch down machine alley every few minutes , heaving his stiff leg behind him like Long John Silver and cursing like his parrot . |
| 25 | He had already committed himself to more work than he could handle because he was inexperienced at making deals and having to turn down work . |
| 26 | This enabled the humblest of tradesmen to furnish all varieties of funeral , rather than having to turn down trade owing to the paucity of his stock . |
| 27 | Accused of a conflict of interest between its headhunting business and other functions , Peat 's were subjected to investigation by the American governing body for accountants , with the result that they decided to turn down headhunting work for their existing accounting clients . |
| 28 | The new government , she said , would have to bring down interest rates . |
| 29 | After the race , the track was redesigned to slow down traffic at the corners . |
| 30 | Unlike Britain , Japan has full employment and a high level of savings which facilitates investment and helps to keep down interest rates and inflation . |