Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Marx believed that ruling class ideology could only slow down the disintegration of the system . |
| 2 | What else if I , I have to go and relieve er if I want er to only work down the cabin and it come to meal times cos we carried on dredging from six in the morning we do al all the winters round cos they eat on the dredger they used to eat three winches four winches on the dredger cos they 'd heave the dredger across the river and back again , wo when they come to meal times I used to have to go on and relieve the man what was driving that winch and I used t cos the er er chins coming round the barrel of the winch they used to override and I used to have a handle to knock them clear . |
| 3 | Let's all go down The Strand have a banana . |
| 4 | Mr Craxi thinks the new rules would penalise smaller parties such as his own ; hence the speculation that he would rather bring down the government than allow the referendums to happen . |
| 5 | It seems that many people , perhaps without even thinking about it , would rather do down the other player than cooperate with the other player to do down the banker . |
| 6 | It requires considerable commitment by already hard-pressed teachers , and considerable organizational skill by the management team , to ensure that such issues are truly taken on board , and do not somehow fall down the cracks between more clearly defined and familiar roles . |
| 7 | MARTINA NAVRATILOVA yesterday revealed that she will finally bring down the curtain on her incredible career at the end of next year . |
| 8 | Well there was always the parlour , you must have the parlour and er you , you had two living rooms and the one was the parlour and there was a cellar underneath the parlour and er the stairs used to come in from the back and go up , up the stairs over the entrance to the cellar but the stairs used to run up there underneath the stairs was the entrance to the cellar , there was a door , so that you could n't just walk down the cellar without opening the door you see , but apart from that there was er there was just the two , two bedrooms . |
| 9 | I 'm not going to Nettos today I 'll make do just go down the bottom . |
| 10 | Can I just go down the shops , Kelly and me are just going get something ? |
| 11 | In other words , you should n't just hold down the chord shape and pick the notes out as they lie under your hand ; each double has its own fingering . |
| 12 | We 'd only just put down the phone to them . |
| 13 | Oh no , that 'll just shut down the gain and this |
| 14 | Naturally , you would not normally shut down the LIFESPAN Process while Offline is running . |
| 15 | Do n't get drawn into committing your supporting troops into combat if they can just as easily pin down the enemy from a distance . |
| 16 | Furthermore , it may be in Big 's interest to deliberately slow down the progress of an acquisition possibly to await the occurrence of certain events or to put pressure on the vendor . |
| 17 | Did you ever go down the caverns ? |
| 18 | Hence any improvement in efficiency or availability of contraception will always drive down the birth-rate . |
| 19 | ‘ And the traffic will be so congested at this time of afternoon , you 'll hardly get down the High at all , and it 's clouding over , and Felicity should acclimatize herself before she goes out , particularly since Magdalen is so cold at this time of — ’ |
| 20 | But now the old paternalism began to reassert itself , determined that whatever shackles had been placed around the BBC should also tie down the commercial companies . |
| 21 | If she should mention to Constance that someone had treated her shabbily and Constance referred the matter to her brothers , they would uncomplainingly track down the brute and teach him manners . |
| 22 | The adventurous can also canoe down the Amazon , trek through the Patagonian uplands , explore volcano craters , or sail round Cape Horn in a square rigger . |
| 23 | No they can probably see down the end and they |
| 24 | These cells will later lay down the skeleton and move on the inner wall of the blastula to take up a characteristic ring-like pattern . |
| 25 | The increased competition from imported coal which the proposed privatization of the electricity industry was expected to unleash would also force down the price of British mined coal — most of which is used in CEGB power stations . |
| 26 | When they leave here they will probably stroll down the Rue Catinat to the riverside . |
| 27 | The brewers argued that introducing arbitration would inevitably slow down the process of negotiating agreements . |
| 28 | If we can now move down the clinical axis to level 5 — that of the individual patient — there have been various trials in techniques of patient costing ; designed by definition , to calculate the cost of treating each patient . |
| 29 | You can really cut down the risk in fucking by using condoms as long as they 're good quality and used properly . |
| 30 | This process will inevitably continue down the system to the point where the words are actually translated into teaching acts . |