Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] down a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , but you wo n't remember all the things to test , as you forget very quickly , so as you 're building the spreadsheet , you ought to write down a list of things you 're going to go back and test . |
| 2 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 3 | But things should quieten down a bit now , that 's the end of the festival fuss . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm counting the calories — I must slim down a bit . ’ |
| 5 | It may seem a lot to you , but for a cast-iron story that might bring down a government , it 's cheap at the price , believe me . |
| 6 | ‘ She 'll go down a treat in Shipley . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm hoping it , once it 's dried out that 'll go down a bit . |
| 8 | Finally could I suggest that if the ‘ wolf pack ’ had your credit policy and implications explained to them , then credit refusals might go down a little easier or not even occur . |
| 9 | So therefore your team worker might come down a little bit score just to add on to your Chairman 's skills . |
| 10 | Then we got Brian back — ’ Brian ! — ‘ because I could n't stand your father worrying that he 'd fall down a rock face . ’ |
| 11 | It was remarkably clean and well-maintained , and all the lights worked but Clive felt as if he ought to be wearing a pith helmet , and carrying a hunting rifle that could bring down a charging rhino at fifty paces . |
| 12 | They 'd bring down a little portable black-and-white television and wire it in to the video upstairs . |
| 13 | But not even Barnes could break down a Springbok side able to absorb the most intense pressure and punish every error . |
| 14 | You could run down a list of things that have been done under the title of reform , and they all look good , but the net result is that the Congress has really lost its capability to respond . ’ |
| 15 | It grew until it was a window and out through the window she could see down a long tunnel ; and beyond that the sun shining and the mountains rising over the fruit trees . |
| 16 | Unlikely as it was that Richard Branson would ever have quite the impact on teenage sensibilities of Duran Duran , the days he could walk down a busy London street totally unrecognised were surely numbered . |
| 17 | There 's too many metal and dirge infested undertones but they 'd go down a storm supporting Silverfish . |
| 18 | There 's too many metal and dirge infested undertones but they 'd go down a storm supporting Silverfish . |
| 19 | As long as mum is alive and as long as I 'm able to look after her , there 's no way I could hold down a job . |
| 20 | Since these problems have the same constraints , we could write down a tableau for LP ( w 1 , … , w p ) having the same basic and non-basic variables ( in the same order ) as any given tableau of VMP . |
| 21 | When he had explored the problem , I asked him if he could write down a number in the sequence and say which numbers were squared and added together to make it . |
| 22 | Charles moved back so that the porter could put down a tray with tea things on it . |
| 23 | I suppose if you 're buying by the thousands the price 'd come down a lot , but when we were only buying about , you know , forty odd plants |
| 24 | Maybe he could settle down a bit now , quit high school , travel — and write . |
| 25 | She was twenty-three and could push down a house or build one , it was a glorious day and she was going to a party and sitting beside Matthew Preston . |
| 26 | We used to work down a row of bricks or tiles . |
| 27 | With memories of sailing planing dinghies still fresh in his mind , he wanted a boat that would surf down a tradewind roller with the tiller humming easily in his hand . |
| 28 | It would tie down a lot of troops and would also give Phnom Penh the opportunity to raise international alarm at the spectre of the return of the Khmer Rouge . |
| 29 | ‘ Now , Charles , if you would calm down a moment and allow me to get a word in , I would be able to inform you that I have already negotiated just such a deal for you . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ That would go down a treat . ’ |