Example sentences of "[verb] down [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite so it 's about feeling you 're going to make a fool of yourself , I mean what 's the feeling when you come in and you sit down first thing in the morning you look all round at the other eleven people |
| 2 | Sit down old chap |
| 3 | Our BBC experts track down elusive edging and special spades among other queries . |
| 4 | Travelling around the United States to the different venues could become costly but , at present , American Airlines , the competition 's official airline and the company that will fly England , are leading a price war which is bringing down internal flight prices by up to 50 per cent . |
| 5 | A HUGE bomb explosion rocked the centre of the Indian city of Calcutta late last night , bringing down two apartment blocks and killing at least 45 people . |
| 6 | A HUGE bomb rocked the centre of the Indian city of Calcutta last night , bringing down two blocks of flats and killing at least 45 people , police said . |
| 7 | The size of the bomb was exactly right to wreck the Alliance Party headquarters without bringing down additional buildings such as No. 4 in which several families lived in flats . |
| 8 | The whole sequence of events follows a logical pattern which could have started with unusually high flooding of the Nile , bringing down red earth and microcosms which polluted the water . |
| 9 | SENT-OFF Ipswich keeper Craig Forrest pleaded his innocence after bringing down United striker Adrian Littlejohn outside the penalty area after just two minutes . |
| 10 | ‘ You know , for bringing down runaway cows . ’ |
| 11 | Hoult escaped with a caution after bringing down old boy David Kelly on a diagonal run inside the area . |
| 12 | She had , to begin with , colonised the boudoir , rearranging the furniture and bringing down pretty china from the spare bedroom , so as , she planned , to sit there often by herself . |
| 13 | The glowing consumer reports about cycling the peaks and television commercials for aftershave showing hunky men rattling down sheer slopes of scree on bikes made me suspicious . |
| 14 | ‘ However shallow injection is best suited to getting rid of dirty water because the material has to be liquid enough to flow down narrow tubes . ’ |
| 15 | Requests for assistance or consultation lead to a fairly high level of interruption and noise in the office , which may slow down other work and even make holding a telephone conversation difficult . |
| 16 | The survey found that half the people questioned believe that catalytic converters would be the most effective means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions , and another 20 per cent believe that using lead free petrol will slow down global warming . |
| 17 | Second , because of the asymmetrical nature of the economies of Europe , a Single Currency would slow down economic growth in Europe . |
| 18 | Oh erm let me slow down this bit , erm no it 's twen , oh it is twenty six ninety nine anywhere else , I 've seen it but in Argos , Wi , well William looked in the catalogue on Tuesday for me , but he said it was nineteen ninety nine in Argos |
| 19 | Such structural changes are inevitable with the international division of labour but Northern protectionism will , undoubtedly , slow down this process . |
| 20 | He also laid down certain rules fur balance , on the need to bend the knees always as a preparation for any kind of step followed by a stretch , on the vital use of the head and on the need fur the co-ordination of all parts if the desired movements were to be precise and elegant . |
| 21 | Saint-Léon laid down certain rules for the staging of character dance based on the traditional folk dance of a particular country . |
| 22 | To counter this aggression the United States laid down certain rules and conditions which the Japanese blatantly ignored . |
| 23 | For the Roman catholic social teaching of the day laid down certain things as of natural law which anyone who was reasonable and honest was supposed to be able to recognize . |
| 24 | ‘ Jesus laid down moral standards , such as in the Sermon on the Mount . |
| 25 | The government laid down extensive amendments at both the Committee and Third Reading stages of the Bill , such that one MP considered that there had been a ‘ complete rewriting of the whole Bill ’ and another that it ‘ has become virtually a Government Bill ’ |
| 26 | The later programmes laid down clearer guidelines about the objectives and role of Urban Programme funding than was always apparent in the later 1970s . |
| 27 | The right to mine Oakenhill was bought in the early '80s by the Free Miners , who still exercise their mining privileges in the Forest under laws laid down 7 centuries ago . |
| 28 | In the Nutricia case the court laid down various guidelines . |
| 29 | Lennox-Boyd then laid down that independence would only be granted if wanted by ‘ a substantial majority of the people ’ ; if Bourne 's proposals were accepted by NLM as well as CPP then they could go ahead : ‘ If he failed then there appeared to be no alternative but to call a general election ’ ( p.245 ) . |
| 30 | Or rather , they laid down specific principles that were to be more or less taken for granted by subsequent positivists . |