Example sentences of "[vb base] down the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Track down the following books through the index . |
| 2 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
| 3 | When the brew is at your preferred strength , just push down the plunger to halt the brewing process and strain the leaves . |
| 4 | Mow , mow down the tender grass Ebalgume ! |
| 5 | If applying two coats , lightly rub down the first coat when it is dry to form a good key for the second coat . |
| 6 | FINLAND 'S government yesterday announced an emergency economic austerity package to stem an outflow of investment capital from the country that is threatening to force a major devaluation and bring down the centre-right administration . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the decision was enough to make Labour 's ‘ sister party ’ bring down the last Labour Government and the working class throughout the UK is still paying for the SDLP 's pettiness . |
| 8 | It was instinct — the natural reaction of a predatory male — that made Ibn Fayoud smile back and press down the automatic window beside him . |
| 9 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 10 | It always seems to me that you 've got a set of results , and if you come to write them up , and you know they 're obviously wrong , you 're going to get a lot more marks if you put down the right values — or what should be the right values — so you end up fiddling things eventually . |
| 11 | I put down the empty can . |
| 12 | Ours usually want twenty four and what our garage usually do , if you take it earlier they put down the twenty fourth of February |
| 13 | he said just put down the main |
| 14 | Others , such as the fault that let down the great thickness of Mesozoic in Cardigan Bay ( to the west of Wales ) must have been much later , though they served to define basins that were presumably already there . |
| 15 | and Vesuvius he entered , let down the inner |
| 16 | TO find a special game in the Mega Drive version of Klax , merely hold down the Left and Up diagonal plus A , B , C and Start simultaneously at the title screen . |
| 17 | So from four we count five backwards count minus five just means count down the opposite way , so we go one , two , three , four , five , so it should be minus one . |
| 18 | Forsooth , my lord , quoth 1 , your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters , now , I hear say , be become so great devourers and so wild , that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves . |
| 19 | Cut down the grooming time but do it quickly , efficiently and calmly . |
| 20 | They cut down the flowery mass |
| 21 | The Western sheep and cattle rangers cut down the big trees and put a stop to the burning of bush . |
| 22 | Every other station has , you even have advertising on radio , why ca n't you have it now on B B C One and Two and cut down the eighty pounds ? |
| 23 | Walk down the pedestrianised Grafton Street and you 'll hear a dozen buskers who look like Hothouse Flowers and sound like The Waterboys . |
| 24 | I walk down the real staircase , but I know , like Lot 's wife knew , that everything is crumbling to a smoke screen behind me , the urge to look back slaps at my face , but there has been enough powder to nothing in my life . |
| 25 | I clasp the mahogany handle just as the door shivers its infection and walk down the crazy paving path as each stone vaporises one step behind me . |
| 26 | I walk down the steep flight of stairs . |
| 27 | I walk down the broadest thoroughfare on the island , that which leads to the harbour . |
| 28 | After mid-morning Sunday mass many come from the church , walk down the short steep hill of Santa Maria in Portico , cross the Riviera di Chiaia and stroll along the Villa Nazionale for a sight of the sea and the majestic sweep of the rocky shore of the Bay of Naples . |
| 29 | As the hydrogen bonds break down the denser liquid phase is thus formed ( see section 2.2 ) . |
| 30 | I gulp down the orange drink and order another one . |