Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [to-vb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not true that the Government want to divert that money to keep down the poll tax in Wandsworth and Westminster ? |
| 2 | The Regional Health Authority voted this afternoon to shut down the specialist chest and orthopaedic hospital . |
| 3 | The move was attacked by one union leader as just another attempt to drive down wages . |
| 4 | It is proposed in this plan to lay down all the streets , squares , spaces , courts , lanes , yards , passages , fields , gardens , etc. , etc. , in such a manner as to express the exact dimensions of every regularly bounded plot of land in the township of Manchester and Salford , that will fall within that square which shall be judged the most proper to encompass it . |
| 5 | Once the prescription is dispensed , it 's sent to one of several pricing offices , which use this column to mark down how much the medicines or other products ( eg hosiery , dressings etc ) cost . |
| 6 | You have to be some chancer to turn down 10 million for a player that could burn out from snorting too much junk food in a few years : - ) ( mixing my puns there , I think ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 8 | In Brussels yesterday NATO sources said the alliance had completed plans to enforce a no-fly zone over Bosnia , with the United Nations expected to approve the use of allied fighters this week to shoot down Serb or other planes flying over the republic . |
| 9 | Waste is transported overland in this manner to keep down costs , but environmentalists are extremely concerned that there is a high risk of disaster should an accident occur during transportation . |
| 10 | I usually park in Newgate Street , but when feeling unwell have occasionally parked on this road to cut down the walking . |
| 11 | Get another Brownie to write down the dots and dashes you signal to see if you have done it right . |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't think of another thing to do down there . ’ |
| 13 | It is appropriate in this case that there should be an interim residence order , and there should be directions attached to that order that A. be returned forthwith to the care of his father and that G. , R. and M. remain in the care of their father and that there be an inter partes hearing with service of the application as quickly as the Portsmouth County Court can make it possible to be heard , which means within a matter of days not a matter of weeks , because it would be quite wrong for this matter to die down once the child is returned . |
| 14 | He readily granted licences for enfeoffment to uses , and although Chancery officials made some effort to track down unlicensed or fraudulent uses , such cases ‘ form a very small minority of all those tenants in chief who had conveyed land to uses ’ . |
| 15 | Perhaps we can think of some way to go down together , using our two good legs . ’ |
| 16 | A committee of MPs is to conduct and urgent inquiry into the running of the Child Support Agency , the organization set up earlier this year to track down absent fathers and extract maintenance payments . |
| 17 | It 's the only good thing to come from this threat to cut down the forest . |
| 18 | I sha n't see you again — I 'm leaving in a few moments to drive down to Kildare . |
| 19 | At some point the object spreads sufficiently for this approximation to break down , and the collective bow shock dissolves into separate bow shocks as the fragments accelerate away from one another . |
| 20 | It has been possible for some time to cruise down the Nile , or stay in some of the jewelled and painted palaces of Moghul India , or walk along the Great Wall of China . |
| 21 | RUC were taking some time to settle down but once Davy Barbour had landed his first penalty from about 50 metres the lights went out and the Holywood stars faded . |
| 22 | We , we do find it as a , as a group very difficult to organise ourselves and for us to have some time to sit down together and feed off one another and talk about it so this is quite , that 's quite hopeful , and I think that does show erm , something the same as er , I 'm sure Jack would say the same thing , like here we are , you know , we 've got all the incoming calls , we 've got all the other stuff to do , and what we 're actually doing when we 're trying to make appointments and so on is we , we fit it in , because we 're half way through |
| 23 | But , even if she did find their name and address , since the alternator needed seemed to be going to take some time to track down , there seemed little point in trying to contact them that day . |
| 24 | There was still much shyness to break down and the warmth of the school was very helpful , for I was still prickly and gauche . |
| 25 | And without the promise of such union to tie down foreign-exchange markets , the break-up of the EMS , and even of the single market , looms . |
| 26 | Lio ! rt chose that moment to flail down with his free hand , and a fistful of rings stabbed into the wizard 's fingers . |
| 27 | Sunlight causes these gases to break down , which releases the chlorine . |
| 28 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |
| 29 | The commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Yugoslavia , Gen Satish Nambiar , also appealed on television to all parties to lay down their weapons , adding that a political settlement was being considered . |
| 30 | and there 's like an old pick-up-ey type thing and then there 's this young lad and a , in a work 's Escort van and then there was me and I thought oh bit of a blow being behind this lot , but there 's not many places to overtake down there so I was |