Example sentences of "[vb pp] down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late 1980s , Ceauşescu 's suspicions and caprices had whittled down the numbers of his long-term favourites . |
| 2 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 3 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 4 | But a comparison with science departments at other universities — such as the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge — shows that Imperial College has not been too badly treated down the years . |
| 5 | On the pavement , Jo shook herself free and smoothed down the front of her leather mini-skirt . |
| 6 | Louise smiled a slow smile , and smoothed down the skirt of her dress . |
| 7 | Caroline tugged at the thin straps that held the red silk up over the generous curve of her breasts , then smoothed down the skirt as if her touch might somehow magically make it extend beyond her thighs . |
| 8 | It was too big to have fallen down the plug-hole , or so it was reckoned . |
| 9 | Perhaps the pussy had fallen down the well again , they thought . |
| 10 | This identity of message was recognized down the line , and had the effect that one would have expected . |
| 11 | Erik Olin Wright , for example , has broken down the concept of ‘ determination ’ into six distinct relations : structural limitation , selection , reproduction/non-reproduction , limits of functional compatibility , transformation and mediation . |
| 12 | he has n't broken down the mileage into how it 's assigned . |
| 13 | The UVA rays have broken down the elastin fibres , or support structure of the skin , resulting in severe premature skin ageing . |
| 14 | Erm I 've broken down the costing into each of the sizes we will produce , the thirty three millilitres , the one litre and the two litre sizes . |
| 15 | As tasks were broken down the office became like a production line for mental work . |
| 16 | Nine days after the first spillage the government 's Marine Pollution Control Unit declared : " The stormy weather has broken down the oil and driven it out to sea . |
| 17 | The judge said during the raid Munn stood in front of the counter and the man who had broken down the screen handed him out the £6,460 from the teller 's cash drawers . |
| 18 | But practitioners usually encounter elders at just those times when crisis has broken down the security of routine . |
| 19 | He 's trampled on my alstroemerias and my dahlias , kicked out my cucumber frame and broken down the fence into the orchard . ’ |
| 20 | Images , feelings and emotions are drained down the cords and into the hands of the Great Enchanter , who crushes them into a frail stream of dust , all that remains of the soul . |
| 21 | For many people the saddest aspect was the selectors ' policy of playing Randall at number three ; every fan in the country could have told them that he should have batted down the order and that exposing him so early was almost certain to fail . |
| 22 | Durham County Council has given assurances that a close watch will be kept on the parking situation , especially at the weekends and if it was warranted , yellow lines would be placed down the west side of Lakeside . |
| 23 | Chairs must be placed down the room , back to back , one less in number than the players who gallop round them in time to the music . |
| 24 | Liz 's gurgle of laughter had floated down the wires . |
| 25 | With a team of eminent academics , from Germany , France , Spain , Italy and Britain , an overall editor in the shape of Jean-Baptiste Durosell , former professor of contemporary history at the Sorbonne , and the backing of a powerful group of international publishers , he attempted the task of assembling , in one substantial but accessible volume , a distillation of all the elements , chronological , geographical , ethnographic , cultural , philosophical , spiritual , which have blended down the centuries to create the state of ‘ Europeanness ’ . |
| 26 | His spectacles had shaken down the arch of his nose . |
| 27 | But this very silence casts doubt on Mancini 's central point that the council actually voted down the king 's expressed wishes . |
| 28 | But this very silence casts doubt on Mancini 's central point that the council actually voted down the king 's expressed wishes . |
| 29 | In June 1946 , a month after a popular referendum had voted down the Constituent Assembly 's proposed constitution and sent the parties back to the drawing board , de Gaulle re-entered the political fray . |
| 30 | And tobacco ash was spilt down the front of his evening shirt . |