Example sentences of "[verb] down the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Track down the following books through the index . |
| 2 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
| 3 | Then , bracing herself , she strode to the top of the staircase and stood gazing down the wide , sweeping curve of it to the imposing hallway and the big front door . |
| 4 | The sheer fury of Southend 's running kept Spurs under pressure and in the 41st minute Gary Mabbutt , newly cautioned for bringing down the impressive David Crown , gave the ball to him . |
| 5 | God would reward good ; his judgements in battle would be just ; he would favour the humble who honoured him and recognised his strength by bringing down the proud . |
| 6 | He was responding to Monday 's claim in the Belfast Irish News that at least three dozen officers were members of a secret ‘ inner circle ’ which had the objects of ‘ removing ’ republican suspects and bringing down the Anglo-Irish agreement . |
| 7 | Partnerships could henceforth be established between consenting adults so that ‘ two men could live permanently together without fearing prattling informers bringing down the criminal law upon them ’ . |
| 8 | Heseltine faced the tactical dilemma that were he to campaign openly and be seen to be instrumental in splitting the party and bringing down the Prime Minister , he would be criticised as divisive and disloyal . |
| 9 | Obviously , the short lives of all those babies and children will have a great effect in bringing down the average figure as even the least mathematical of us will be able to understand . |
| 10 | The terrorists know that by hitting commercial buildings and their insurers they are also hitting at a British Government faced with potentially huge underwriting costs even as it is desperate to find ways of bringing down the public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 11 | In 51 minutes Ian Ferguson crashed in a fierce 20 yarder which flew wide and Rangers missed a great chance to go ahead when Murdoch saved a Hateley penalty kick , after the keeper had been penalised for bringing down the big attacker . |
| 12 | An elderly Indian woman in a sari is closing up and bringing down the grated gate . |
| 13 | Southend defender Prior played a poor back pass and full-back Powell was booked for bringing down the goal-bound Thompson . |
| 14 | It has no calories of its own , but it does slow down the metabolic rate , making it harder to burn up the calories you do consume . |
| 15 | However , if weight loss is excessive , then muscle tissue rather than fat tissue is lost , and this in turn will slow down the metabolic rate , making it more difficult to lose weight thereafter . |
| 16 | Better sacks have bound seams which do at least slow down the leaking process . |
| 17 | Vitamin E : research shows that it interrupts the free radical chain of destruction and so can slow down the ageing process . |
| 18 | The wind whipped down the narrow side-streets and alleys , whistling in the wide estuaries . |
| 19 | The rising sun , lancing down the Sambre valley , dazzled Sharpe . |
| 20 | A law signed on March 5 ( given in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of May 6 ) laid down the legal foundations of individual and state security and set up a Security Council responsible for this area , chaired ex officio by the Russian President . |
| 21 | His most effective early church planter laid down the great missionary principle of becoming all things to all men that by all means he might win some . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | The 1971 White Paper laid down the following requirements for adult training centres and showed the actual provision in 1969 , as shown overleaf . |
| 24 | Lord Atkin laid down the narrow rule in Donoghue v Stevenson [ 1932 ] AC 562 : A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in an injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 25 | Cornelius laid down the unsipped glass . |
| 26 | The big moment came : she opened her hand and laid down the burdened flower by Maman 's plate . |
| 27 | The statutes laid down the maximum size of peasant land allotments . |
| 28 | It also laid down the constitutional right for anyone who passed the Abitur — the German equivalent of A levels — to study at university . |
| 29 | That year the great Earl of Chatham , formerly the elder Pitt , laid down the basic principles of British naval policy : |
| 30 | In 1986 the Court of Appeal laid down the basic rules on competition by ex-employees in Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler 1986 IRLR 69 . |