Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] down [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sand eroded accumulates down wind from the dune , where , being fresh , it is recolonised by marram and stability is thus regained . |
| 2 | A Land Rover spokesman said : ‘ Our vehicles are not designed to tumble down mountains but they are built for a tough life . ’ |
| 3 | The material is made by combining crushed whole eggs and milk , to which three kinds of the enzyme lipase are then added to break down fats . |
| 4 | It may be designed to cut down heat loss from the plant at night . |
| 5 | ca n't do it any other way , so I said oh I 'll go and have a look , I 've got to go down town and |
| 6 | Police , however , still needed to track down Calton 's two main accomplices . |
| 7 | In what was interpreted by the CIA and the Department of State as a post-missile crisis concession , the Soviet Union agreed to turn over control of all weapons systems within Cuba ( including surface-to-air installations which could be used to shoot down US overflights ) . |
| 8 | Today oversupply has helped bring down London rents to bargain basement levels . |
| 9 | Produced by public schoolboys , with public schoolboy tastes , and public schoolboy humour , the magazine had , within eighteen months , circulated to the schools of the land , crossed oceans , irritated politicians , and helped bring down Profumo . |
| 10 | They would n't have dared lay down conditions like that to Adolph . ’ |
| 11 | The riots were put down by the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , with support from Serbia , in an apparent rebuttal of the Croatian authorities ; observers noted that this was the first time that the JNA , whose officer corps was dominated by ethnic Serbs , had been used to put down violence outside Serbia itself . |
| 12 | Many say they have had to turn down surgery , for instance , because they could not find alternative care for their dependants when a bed became available . |
| 13 | • Algae magnets can be used to hold down lettuce leaves for herbivorous fish . |
| 14 | Note the crepe paper tape which can be used to lay down lines of various widths . |
| 15 | In a scouting role they can be used to pin down enemy troops by getting within 8″ of them and thus preventing march moves . |
| 16 | It 's easy to romanticize this basically squalid lifestyle and the repression is bound to slow down development . |
| 17 | We have also attempted to set down priorities for the Council . |
| 18 | After the race , the track was redesigned to slow down traffic at the corners . |
| 19 | I went to the top of Ludgate Hill and watched exhausted men being carried out of the Old Bailey , then down side streets to where the steeple of St Bride 's church was tottering and the bells had gone crashing down minutes previously . |
| 20 | In practice , the philosophy of racial health involved laying down expert injunctions to the working-class and to women on the importance of preserving imperial stamina and physique . |
| 21 | The proposal dictates that only the most severely disabled drivers would be allowed to drive down Skinnergate and High Row between 10.30am and 4pm . |
| 22 | Then while watching an election programme on TV that evening I heard Mrs Angela Rumbold saying how badly-behaved the Labour Party was in that their loutish supporters ( my words ) had tried to shout down John Major . |
| 23 | During the insurgency villagers were encouraged to chop down trees to deny shelter to the communists . |
| 24 | However , SAG has been forced to wind down work on its two major development projects , the persistent SQL function , which involves an SQL statement being compiled and stored using a high performance compiler , and datatypes strategy for two-phase commit . |
| 25 | She then pointed to the recipe — Turkish Stuffing for a whole Roast Sheep — delighted by the disparity between the thought of this sheep and the few ounces of meat a week which begun jotting down recipes for this book after she had been sent back to England in 1945 , owing to her health , from New Delhi , where she had been living with her husband . |
| 26 | Man Utd Europe is much improved with better tackling ; good passing is required to break down defences . |
| 27 | And still Shiona had failed to pin down Jake , despite the fact that , out of desperation , she had taken up residence at his Edinburgh home . |