Example sentences of "[verb] down their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | West German attention remained centred on the affairs of Central Europe — nor had the Germans either completely liberated themselves from or lived down their own past . |
| 2 | Further doubts have been raised about the future of the THORP reprocessing plant at Sellafield by the Japanese authorities ' decision to abandon plutonium transports by sea [ see above ] and to scale down their nuclear-energy programme . |
| 3 | He appeared to speak on behalf of others in his platoon , young men who had just left boyhood behind , as they crouched hunched over cleaning rags and oil , stripping down their SA-80 rifles and machine guns in the cramped confines of their bunk room . |
| 4 | Passes played into space there created a two-goal , first-half deficit , which the patient patterns Everton built down their right flank ultimately merited to cancel : a team , in fact , of two halves . |
| 5 | They let down their defensive guard and allowed Maskell and Mitchell to do their double act for goal number 3 . |
| 6 | By writing down their key words , taken from headings within the chapter , you can have in front of you parallel but different patterns of the same subject . |
| 7 | This was a real lady The girls were suddenly self-conscious , smoothing down their tattered skirts and tucking their dirty feet out of sight . |
| 8 | The England international has been mobbed by Lazio fans this week , all beseeching him to shoot down their hated rivals , but he has kept his cool . |
| 9 | A GANG of football fans burned down their arch rivals ' ground after watching their team lose , a court was told yesterday . |
| 10 | Using the movements of visible things to track down their invisible causes has a healthy set of precedents . |
| 11 | We later managed to track down their elusive boss , Halim , a fragile , sharp-eyed father of twelve , in the back of his porcelain shop on the waterfront . |
| 12 | They included this year 's Dubai Cup winners at Hickstead , Robert Smith and Brook Street Boysie , who threw down their usual serious challenge only to be bettered by 1.05sec . |
| 13 | Legions of lost souls have taken to congregating at a popular local hostelry , the Throat and Razor , repeating those very words over and over again , till the tears run down their sunburned legs . |
| 14 | Okay , they 're poor paid , but at least they would have the pride of saying that they 've got a job whereas the elderly are having to just sit at home and turning down their fires and turning down their central heating in case they ca n't afford their bills ! |
| 15 | The police harass them , and have closed down their weekly flea-markets and their all-night parties . |
| 16 | Should they then turn around to bite the hand that takes down their volunteered confessions , they will fail . |
| 17 | An alternative to the questionnaire-type of worksheet , is the field booklet or pamphlet with pre-selected headings and blank spaces where the pupils can jot down their own notes on particular features , or make plans and annotated sketches . |
| 18 | Many of the great killers were mastered , either by reducing their prevalence or by cutting down their case-fatality rates . |
| 19 | In the health-conscious nineties , companies such as ICI , Shell , National Westminster Bank and Gestetner are closing down their in-house bars and applying a no-alcohol policy across the board , apparently with little resistance from staff . |
| 20 | But most authorities have been closing down their residential establishments in recent years . |
| 21 | So convinced were they of this ultimate victory , that ever since Christians have laid down their own lives on the line rather than renounce this hard-won faith . |
| 22 | It is using its applications engineering resources by offering " a total engine package " to those of its customers whom recession has forced to run down their own development activities . |
| 23 | Grinding down their much-bigger crystals for suspension in the fluid can take months . |
| 24 | If the demand for cash , in the form of notes issued by the Bank of England , rises , the clearing banks meet the rise in demand by obtaining notes from the Bank , at the same time running down their operational balances with it . |
| 25 | In recent months the fanatics had scaled down their 20-year campaign against English-owned property , but last week launched attacks on five homes . |
| 26 | Several other countries have either scaled down their original expansion plans for nuclear power , delayed the continuation of their nuclear power expansion or begun to look seriously at the phasing out of existing nuclear power stations . |
| 27 | According to some theorists , that 's the only way men can let down their macho defences : in blood-letting , catastrophe , a suicidal willingness to put your life on the line . |
| 28 | This will drive up the price of securities and hence will drive down their current market rate of interest . |
| 29 | Chauffeurs peel themselves off the walls , put down their fifth or sixth freebie rock'n'roll drink , and take us all in convoy to a club somewhere in Kansas City . |
| 30 | Write down their good points and where they could improve . |