Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] down the " 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 | ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days . |
| 3 | ‘ No woman would ever want to walk down the aisle thinking that she was the bet in a silly game of golf . ’ |
| 4 | let's hope that it will begin to break down the isolation and conservatism of some fine art departments . |
| 5 | Will I have to strip down the tank and start again ? |
| 6 | No longer did they have to go down the backstairs during the night , and into the yard and across it to where the three outdoor lavatories stood . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'll have to go down the off-licence . ’ |
| 8 | No , oh I know what I never got that ai n't finished I 'll have to go down the shops , I might go down |
| 9 | If this does not work , you will have to drain down the pipe and remove the fitting . |
| 10 | An employer will have to write down the assessment as a record only if it is too complex to repeat when necessary . |
| 11 | This is a tricky exercise , but easier if you keep your glove at arm level , shield the bird from the wind with your body , and do n't try to jump down the last foot or two , and so jar the bird . |
| 12 | Let us not constantly try to talk down the coal industry . |
| 13 | Of course , you 'd have to track down the right person . ’ |
| 14 | But once you 've got there , you do n't have to play down the big moments , or play up the character scenes , because it 's all so perfectly balanced . ’ |
| 15 | According to the Keynesian theory , firms and households will attempt to run down the excess money balances they are being forced to hold by buying bonds . |
| 16 | ‘ Madam , they 'll have to ring down the curtain . |
| 17 | An obvious extension of this is that they should attempt to break down the isolation between practitioners in different countries . |
| 18 | An egoist who tries to ground his ethic in ‘ Be aware ’ would have to break down the analogy between personal and other viewpoints ; and to do so he could not appeal to the most obvious difference , that while ‘ here ’ and ‘ there ’ are exchanged by the agent 's movements , and ‘ now ’ is continuously changing into ‘ then ’ , he remains to himself unalterably ‘ I ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Ana will be easier but with Mitch arriving every other weekend you may have to lay down the law a little . ’ |
| 20 | I 'd have to take down the shore , shore tomorrow . |
| 21 | ICI says it may now have to close down the business . |
| 22 | ‘ None of us would want to drop down a division , so we would have to close down the shop and go back to our day jobs . ’ |
| 23 | As a general point , you should try to tie down the enemy 's best unit while you use your core troops to see off his second best troops . |
| 24 | The general attempt to sell bonds will tend to drive down the price of bonds and raise their rate of interest , and this will help eliminate the excess demand for money , since the higher the rate of interest the lower the demand for money . |
| 25 | In addition , those who favour the return of a property tax point out ( as described earlier in this chapter ) that there are many financial advantages involved in purchasing a house and that a property tax might serve to dampen down the overheating of the housing market evident during much of the 1980s . |
| 26 | Self-employment will also tend to keep down the figures of those claiming unemployment benefit — and thus registering as unemployed — because some of the self-employed have not contributed enough to qualify . |
| 27 | The Government did manage to bring down the rate of income tax , but at the same time we increased the annual budget for health between 1983 and 1987 from £15.5 billion to £20.7 billion and for social security from £36.7 billion to £48.7 billion . |
| 28 | Just like Sir Anthony Hopkins can afford to turn down the £1 million reputedly offered to make a sequel to Silence of The Lambs . |
| 29 | The current government must recognise that it can not continue to go down the line of an individualist anxiety- ridden state , of competitive individuals where the poor and disabled are left to starve on city streets . |
| 30 | No th she 's going to her sons Christmas Eve and she does n't want to travel down the M twenty five , M twenty four . |