Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 2 | Everything here is dynamic and very competitive ; hotels , restaurants , theatres , which beach you go to , and that drives down the prices and car prices unfortunately . |
| 3 | That hungers down the blood-smell even to a leak of its own |
| 4 | 2 Push down the clutch plate ( a ) and draw back the piston rod ( b ) |
| 5 | If you 're willing to go down the route to drag hunting I am willing to support any hunt that wants to go down that route and I am sure this authority would . |
| 6 | This slows down the towplane , leaving it at low speed below the glider and having its tail pulled up out of control . |
| 7 | This cuts down the risk of a photographer becoming stale and running out of ideas about how to present the material . |
| 8 | Amongst those who did not do duty in this year 's championship are Phil Davies ( standing down as Llanelli skipper after a highly successful five year run ; reverting to the second row and declaring his intention to challenge for a place in the Lions party in that position — remember the trouble he gave Paul Ackford when Wales last beat England in 1989 ) ; David Bryant ( controversially appointed a youthful pack leader in his first season in international rugby under the John Ryan regime , now recovered from a debilitating period of illness ) ; Andy Allen ( the front jumper was capped out of Newbridge in 1990 , subsequently becoming yet another moving down the valley to Newport ) ; Aled Williams ( one cap as a replacement wing in Namibia in 1990 , when a Bridgend player , but increasingly favoured by many to join Robert Jones in forming a club halfback partnership ) . |
| 9 | I walked the 30 paces down the narrow alley to the very spot where the paper girl first heard the running steps of her assailant before she was knocked senseless . |
| 10 | Thessy arrived first , tired after an uncomfortable night on the ferry , and five minutes later Bellybutton half danced and half shuffled down the pontoon with a can of paint and a pocketful of rags and brushes . |
| 11 | When the chicks are reared , some go down the west coast of the Americas all the way to Patagonia . |
| 12 | Then they half slithered , half rolled down the wide oaken stairway and found themselves shivering with fright in the moonlit hall ; or rather Sam and Rose found each other . |
| 13 | And then this went down the barrel and you know , hit whatever it wanted to hit and each shot cost a thousand pounds ! |
| 14 | He felt the contact was so invaluable that he was prepared to turn down the job at the head of one of the UK 's premier blue-chip companies if it meant making such a sacrifice . |
| 15 | Their spokesman said that the men were prepared to close down the generating plant immediately , but it would mean that the grid would go and that factories and hospitals would be without power for an indefinite time . |
| 16 | 2 Write down the words from the same dictionary page which are missing in these sentences . |
| 17 | The ideal working dress would , therefore , be one in which you could reach up high to bring down the best china , bend down low to pick up the dropped toy , feel comfortable in for walking around the park and pushing a pram or playing ball , not worry about if baby food was deposited on it , move around in easily with a baby on your hip and cover up totally for rolling out pastry or helping with painting . |
| 18 | By having the individual numbers logged at a central computer , it is then possible to track down the dog 's owner without difficulty . |
| 19 | Grim prospects do hang over the heads of black school leavers and the research of Gloria Lee and John Wrench does much to nail down the specific ways in which employment opportunities are much narrower for the black kid seeking apprenticeships in industry ( 1981 ) . |
| 20 | As a result , I believe it is appropriate to write down the value of our assets by a substantial amount . |
| 21 | It was impossible to get any sort of recent financial statement from the company , and it was equally impossible to track down the principal debtors , who were ducking a host of other creditors as well . |
| 22 | An understanding of this can do much to damp down the fires of impatience , and kindle those of tolerance in younger people , for ‘ Granny 's old stories ’ . |
| 23 | The Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 came down the day after the fourth anniversary of the Lockerbie bomb — allegedly planted by two Libyans — which killed 270 . |
| 24 | A spokesman at Number 10 played down the snub . |
| 25 | On lap 21 , it seemed it might have a niggling problem with its drivers as Patrese made a serious lunge down the inside and Mansell made an equally serious attempt to stop him . |
| 26 | He did much to break down the cultural barriers inherent in Bobby 's background , replacing his love of Walt Disney with an interest in French films . |
| 27 | In a Plinian eruption , it 's usually impossible to pin down the site of the vent exactly , since it stands a high chance of being obliterated or destroyed by the eruption itself . |
| 28 | He is perching on the railway , six stops down the line , with a stationmaster he got to know somehow when he was on the town in Petersburg — the Dostoevsky no-home at its most stripped and strange in this novel of aimless movement . |
| 29 | So there 's this enormously long testing period now takes place and that cuts down the risk of their being disasters or catastrophes . |
| 30 | These lay down the marvellously patterned and polished surface characteristic of cowries . |