Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to go down the village , I want to go down the shops . |
| 2 | There will be occasions when you want to drain down the cold water system . |
| 3 | A continuing sensitivity is demonstrated by Chinese protests over officially approved Japanese textbooks which appear to play down the iniquities of Japanese actions before 1945 . |
| 4 | I suppose you think I mean I want to walk down the aisle in white with my friends watching , but that 's not it , that 's not what this feeling is to do with . |
| 5 | I want to calm down a bit . ’ |
| 6 | I shall return to that point later , but I want to put down a clear marker now . |
| 7 | The fingerboard is ebony , with exquisite maple leaf inlays lacking nothing in detail as they appear to drift down the neck towards the body . |
| 8 | ‘ If you want to slow down the game , ’ said another Ottawa official , ‘ one good tactic is to keep changing the players ’ . |
| 9 | A members ' voluntary liquidation usually happens because a company 's shareholders want to close down the business and get their money back . |
| 10 | Residential homes , and long stay nursing homes in particular , appear to cut down the use of hospital care during the last year of people 's lives . |
| 11 | ‘ They want to bring down the Chancellor and thereby to undermine the Prime Minister himself , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The man who called himself Hope went down the sleepy cow-crossed and vagrant-strewn main street of Keswick with the speed and determination of the utterly resolved . |
| 13 | She believes we must all recognise and come to terms with our own ageism and seek to break down the barriers to understanding . |
| 14 | Egon Zehnder consultants tend to play down the headhunter image , now freely accepted by most of the Big Four's directors , and see themselves , like their European colleagues , as management consultants . |
| 15 | But egalitarian feminists tend to play down the value of biological explanations . |
| 16 | At the present time the English tend to play down the significance of affinal relationships but , even so , the statement " she has made a good marriage " is more likely to refer to the social and financial standing of the husband 's immediate kin than to the personal qualities of the husband himself . |
| 17 | The official reports , produced by the Census Offices , such as the County Monitors and the User Guides , tend to play down the difficulties and in particular have been coy about the extent and the method of imputation . |
| 18 | Or remain to stare down the reflection of his own fear ? |
| 19 | She ran from him , nightmare panic making her breathing and heartbeat echo down the long tree-lined path until she saw the moon shining through a stained-glass window of the garden of Eden . |
| 20 | Given the rate at which parts of the crag seem to tumble down the hillside , including some famous classic routes , you ought to make the effort sooner rather than later , before any more lines disappear . |
| 21 | Later that afternoon , there was an inspection of the course , and while sideslipping down behind Mueller I was amazed to seen him remove his skis and begin walking down the course , an activity known as ‘ bootpacking ’ . |
| 22 | I vaguely recall writing down the codes months ago and losing whatever it was I wrote them on . |
| 23 | Next you begin breaking down the aims into individual goals . |
| 24 | When you can manage this too , then begin cutting down the rest intervals to one minute . |
| 25 | Residential homes seem to cut down the use of hospital care ; they probably also reduce the need for it , but this is less certain . |
| 26 | But I did n't get married four times because I like trolling down the aisle , I got married four times because I like the idea of being married and I like sharing my life with a man . |
| 27 | now if I was to go there and back that 's eighty pence , I mean I could get , for , for that e extra eighty pence I could get a few things in there that are dearer but I mean I like going down the town anyway and just wander and go back but I do get a few more bits in there now than I did . |
| 28 | In one area of Isabela Island the donkeys seem to be keeping goat numbers in check , while cats , wherever they occur , tend to keep down the rats . |
| 29 | If the Government decide to run down the nuclear industry , apart from the loss of 120,000 jobs in the north-west , in the area that I represent , would it be possible to meet the Government 's target for reduced carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2005 , let alone by the year 2000 , under the Labour party 's policy ? |
| 30 | It says that recent years have seen a transformation in Britain 's manufacturing base , and it condemns those who do not recognise it and continue to run down the achievements of British industry . |