Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will typically take several hours for the car to go down the line , hundreds of workers will be directly involved in fitting the various bits and pieces , and each will have a cycle time of perhaps 60 seconds to do their allotted task . |
| 2 | He watched in agony as Ram , with the deliberate movements of long service and old age , tore the cartridge , emptied the powder into the muzzle , and took his ramrod to drive down the rest of the cartridge . |
| 3 | When the divers went over the side to swim down the seventy feet to the pipe , however , they immediately discovered how hazardous it really was . |
| 4 | It was argued that the government 's policy towards Austin Rover could be viewed as an attempt to slim down the company through rationalisation and privatise parts as they became profitable ( eg Jaguar ) , finishing up with an unprofitable rump which had very little chance of long-term viability on its own . |
| 5 | A NEW reward of £5,000 has been offered in a bid to track down the killer of sunbather Ann Heron . |
| 6 | ‘ We have had an attempt to talk down the successes purely for party political gain because of the General Election , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Police are now using DNA testing , or genetic fingerprinting in an attempt to track down the rapist . |
| 8 | That evening , when Mrs Hollidaye crept into Dot 's bedroom to damp down the fire for the night and check that the guard was securely in place , she had filled a trug basket with garden produce . |
| 9 | More recently his attempt to damp down the fires of the Rushdie controversy , A Satanic Affair : Salman Rushdie and The Rage of Islam , infuriated both Muslim militants and some of Rushdie 's friends , which makes him think he got the balance about right . |
| 10 | In what appeared to be an attempt to play down the affair , President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , widely regarded as a " moderate " , commented in a sermon on Feb. 16 that " if the West deal with the issue logically , the result will be that the Imam 's sentence will be regarded as an issue of Islamic expertise , not anything else " . |
| 11 | He was reckoned to be one of the officers prepared to use force to put down the revolution . |
| 12 | In the personal social services field there has been reference to the need to encourage self-help and voluntary action to keep down the cost of providing professional social care . |
| 13 | It 's tempting to stop at every village you come across on your travels — at Spili , we paused to drink from a Venetian fountain where stone lionheads spouted clear spring mountain water ; at Preveli we visited the famous monastery which looks out to the south coast ; driving through the Psiloritis mountains we braved the wind to climb down the Kourtaliotiko Gorge and saw the tiny church of St Nicolas . |
| 14 | Today in a bid to keep down the voles , the Department of Transport and the Forestry Commission began placing Kestrel nesting boxes along the M40 motorway . |
| 15 | Finally , materials stockpiling was encouraged by the Japanese government in 1972–3 in an attempt to hold down the yen exchange rate . |
| 16 | The united front put up by the other EC leaders was made possible by the West German Chancellor , Dr Helmut Kohl , who abandoned any attempt to slow down the decision on an inter-governmental conference . |
| 17 | The severe artificial banking was removed and in 1967 the lap was extended slightly and a chicane added near the start at Tiergarten in an attempt to slow down the circuit . |
| 18 | Mr Kovac did not elaborate but his statement was in line with Mr Meciar 's oft-declared intention to slow down the pace of economic reform introduced by free market apostle Vaclav Klaus after the collapse of communism . |
| 19 | The controversy led AID to turn down the project . |
| 20 | A Feminist Dictionary , compiled by Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler , is not just a nonsexist version of the standard dictionary , but an attempt to break down the monolithic authority of dictionaries in general . |
| 21 | The obverse of Employee Involvement is Participative Management , Ford 's attempt to break down the organizational barriers between management hierarchies . |
| 22 | The process uses a natural gas flame to break down the effluent into sulphur dioxide . |
| 23 | And every parent has just been sent a letter — which claims ’ both Labour and the Liberal Demcrats have stated their intention to close down the remaining grammar schools . ’ |
| 24 | Welcome back : One of the world 's leading classical violinists is backing a local record company in an attempt to bring down the price of compact discs . |
| 25 | TRANSPORT links in Livingston are to come under scrutiny in a bid to cut down the number of cars on the roads . |
| 26 | You could even get an off-line-reader to cut down the phone bills to hardly anything . |
| 27 | In Earls Court in 1966 , before the days of good acoustic panels , we draped silk parachutes from the roof in an attempt to cut down the echo ; nowadays technology helps ! |
| 28 | The disadvantage is that they require a transformer to step down the voltage , which either means fairly expensive fittings ( incorporating the transformer so they can replace existing fittings ) , or expensive wiring from a central transformer to the light fittings — low voltage means high current , so the wires have to be much bigger than normal lighting wiring . |
| 29 | It also includes the skills of using books , such as using the contents and the index to track down the topics required . |
| 30 | She played the message over again , grabbing a note-pad from the desk to jot down the number . |