Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sketchy jumping had let down Country Member on a number of occasions last season but he fenced soundly this time , quickening well between the last two to take command . |
| 2 | Position this end at the leading edge , pinning the tape over the raw edge of the turned down heading allowance , and leaving 2.5cm ( 1in ) above it ( fig. 25 ) . |
| 3 | Amstrad has taken a £7.24 million charge for the restructuring of its Spanish subsidiary , and has also written down computer stock by £3.6 million more . |
| 4 | The paper is ambitious and given its scope , inevitably , some interesting assertions are not fully developed , inter alia that using psychodynamic theory at different times will have different meanings for practitioners ; and that in the UK a preoccupation with anti-discriminatory perspectives has slowed down theory building . |
| 5 | Until now , Atkinson has played down title talk , referring to his team as ‘ half decent ’ and describing their position as bookies ' favourites as ‘ barmy ’ . |
| 6 | Tough action has cut down football hooliganism . |
| 7 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 8 | We had to halt as cartloads of bones dug up from the cemetery were taken down Paternoster Row to the charnel house . |
| 9 | There 's proper fencing , and they 've put down tree bark , which makes me confident about letting Richard run around — he 's a bit ham-footed sometimes ! |
| 10 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 11 | If Nicholson had strolled down Sunset Strip , he would have caught sight of Dean at Googies or one of the other coffee joints where Dean would meet with Natalie Wood and Dennis Hopper . |