Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full of confidence , Pliny tried to calm down the overwrought Pomponianus , and to demonstrate his own unconcern , went off to freshen up in the local baths , and subsequently sat down to eat a hearty meal . |
| 2 | Bloomsbury House tried to dampen down the enthusiasm for Lyons — the uniforms were very expensive to provide — but many ended up working there . |
| 3 | Downing Street tried to dampen down the story , saying the press officer had not mentioned anything about ‘ whingers ’ . |
| 4 | Delaney tried to play down the fear in his voice — fear for her . |
| 5 | Those closest to Camilla yesterday tried to play down the scandal . |
| 6 | At the CPSU congress currently in session Gorbachev tried to play down the significance of the strikes , claiming that the " general strike " urged by independent miner 's leaders had not materialized . |
| 7 | We tried to play down the tackiness , but it did n't work . |
| 8 | Gooch , typically , tried to play down the huge blow to England his own illness has been . |
| 9 | Before I left the Lock and I was on nights the sirens went one night and this was before they stopped going down the shelter we went down the air raid shelter that is , now , is the cellar to the club at Bloxwich Lock 's club ! |
| 10 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 11 | Strikingly , MITI frequently tried to slow down the rate of accumulation to avoid overcapacity , a problem exacerbated by the increasing size of new plants which reduced the number to be built each year . |
| 12 | He tried to break down the father-role position doctors held , so the patients could feel more relaxed and see him almost as an equal . |
| 13 | When his father , frustrated after years as a POW , returned , he tried to lay down the law . |
| 14 | The Catholic Church had made a bad mistake with Galileo when it tried to lay down the law on a question of science , declaring that the sun went round the earth . |
| 15 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 16 | Is n't it true that someone tried to burn down the barn your Sparrowgrass was stabled in a month ago ? |
| 17 | Vandals tried to burn down the school in Milton Keynes at the weekend . |
| 18 | The 26 Tory rebels who tried to bring down the government |
| 19 | In INDIA , for instance , despite the sterilisation scandals which helped to bring down the Ghandi Administration in 1977 , there are now new reports of widespread sterilisation abuse in Gujerat ( using famine relief as an ‘ incentive ’ ) and Rajasthan ( using promises of employment as an ‘ incentive ’ for tribal women ) . |
| 20 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 21 | The familiar whisky-edged voice came bellowing down the line , and she grinned fondly . |
| 22 | He and Mrs Taylor came tearing down the yard to see what was up . |
| 23 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 24 | She 'd turned down the offers of promotion because of Emily . |
| 25 | My mother could n't believe I 'd turned down the highest single accolade known to show business aside from This Is Your Life ( which I 've also managed to avoid by dint of a pact with the reclusive man with whom I share my digs ) . |
| 26 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |
| 27 | I was woken up in the night sometimes , the spare bed in my room being made up for someone they 'd met down the Club , the other lodger 's room already occupied . |
| 28 | Twice , when Meredith ordered ‘ Two steps stage left ’ and Geoffrey moved to the right , Meredith came bounding down the centre aisle shouting ‘ Left , left , ducky ’ and leapt onto the apron to seize him by the shoulders and shove him into place . |
| 29 | Straw — came rocketing down the line . |
| 30 | He yearned to gulp down the coffee that remained , he craved to ask for more . |