Example sentences of "[to-vb] down [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Sal and Kitty first set eyes on my prize , they could n't stop jumping up and down with excitement and even helped me to paint down one side , ‘ Charlie Trumper , the honest trader , founded in 1823 ’ . |
| 2 | Although mantle plumes do not drive the rifting in this model , the surface uplift caused by underplating would assist the rifting process as diverging plates would tend to slide down either side of a hot-spot swell . |
| 3 | DEVELOPERS OFTEN TRY to wear down local opposition by continually resubmitting plans . |
| 4 | This is exactly what this staircase is , and to get from one room to another you had to go down one staircase and up another . |
| 5 | On a Sunday , they could go down to chapel , the old girls 'd to go down one side of the aisle , they 'd go down the other , the old men , tried to put his hand out , touch the old lady … |
| 6 | But it might not be a bad idea to go down that route to see if we can we can see if it can be exploit it at this stage because we have discussed , and I know this is getting off the the the the agen |
| 7 | If you 're willing to go down the route to drag hunting I am willing to support any hunt that wants to go down that route and I am sure this authority would . |
| 8 | Now you ca n't do that without going and asking think with the organisations such as housing associations , some factor information about where we would stand if we decide to go down that route . |
| 9 | A new CAT has now been set up to go down that avenue . |
| 10 | Aye , but I 'll have to go down next week because they 're off school . |
| 11 | But to go down this path of analysis is to put things in an unreasonably negative light . |
| 12 | Much as I would enjoy debating this matter with the hon. Gentleman , whom I might also call my hon. Friend , I do not wish to go down this path . |
| 13 | " I was planning to go down this week-end . |
| 14 | You see coal used to come down one incline and the and and it used to knock the empties off , two empties off , you see ? |
| 15 | " He also buys and sells antiques for a living and he has promised to come down next week and have a proper look and then perhaps take a few things back to London to some man he knows who is an expert on Oriental China and objets d'art . " |
| 16 | I do n't think it is , I think , no , I think you 've got to come down another pattern . |
| 17 | So you know we 've got enough courage to come down this end . |
| 18 | Incidentally when doing phone-ins it 's a good idea to write down each person 5 name as they call in so that you can address them by name . |
| 19 | The orchestration of Cabinet ministers in radio and TV interviews at the weekend seemed designed to damp down growing unrest among Conservative back-benchers about the quality of leadership . |
| 20 | Spokesmen for the Chamorro government stressed that a small group of officers had acted on their own authority to ship the missiles , which included Sam-7s and Sam-14s and which had been used to shoot down Salvadorean army aircraft on Nov. 23 and Dec. 4 . |
| 21 | Consequently , when these innovative ideas were taken up nationally and the Residential Precinct Regulation was adopted in the traffic legislation of the Netherlands in September 1976 , great care was taken to set down minimum design requirements and special rules for conduct within a Woonerf . |
| 22 | Wireless , the cinema and television had not yet had the opportunity to smooth down all individuality in the spoken word and local dialect still flourished . |
| 23 | Hersh 's book attracted libel suits in the UK over its claims that the UK newspaper proprietor Robert Maxwell had close links with the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and that he , together with a member of his Daily Mirror newspaper staff , had helped Mossad to track down Mordechai Vanunu , a nuclear technician who leaked details of Israel 's nuclear programme and had been imprisoned in Israel since 1986 [ see p. 35922 ] . |
| 24 | Ellis managed to track down one contemporary who described him as , quote , a horrible little shit who thought he was Napoleon , unquote . |
| 25 | We stopped to stare down that slope , more sensed than seen . |
| 26 | Interest rates were increased in September 1989 and restrictions placed on commercial bank lending to dampen down economic activity . |
| 27 | The NCB was keen to play down existing evidence , calling it ‘ conjecture and speculation ’ . |
| 28 | Israel 's Environment Minister Yossi Sarid attended the meeting , the first time an Israeli official has attended a regional conference in an Arab state , although delegates were at pains to play down this aspect , stressing that environmental problems went beyond political differences . |
| 29 | The 800m world record holder , who is currently training between 50 and 60 miles a week , was quick to play down any suggestion that he would finish among the top runners in the 11th London Marathon . |
| 30 | A recommended route is to walk down one side of Lake Rotoiti and catch a water-taxi back , a stroll of about seven miles . |