Example sentences of "[verb] to bring down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | The 26 Tory rebels who tried to bring down the government |
| 3 | ‘ They want to bring down the Chancellor and thereby to undermine the Prime Minister himself , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Just before that vote Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats , the junior coalition partner , had reached agreement on tax reforms which had been the subject of three months of negotiation and which had threatened to bring down the government . |
| 5 | Sawney raised his claymore in both hands and prepared to bring down the hilt . |
| 6 | This , I think sums up the Kitchens rather neatly — they 're not much like corporate-trousered rock stars , but they 're hardly the Manic Street Preachers attempting to bring down the system from within either . |
| 7 | ‘ Her singing tonight is going to bring down the chandelier ! ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Podkrepa Trade Union Federation remained on strike alert from July 20 , but rejected the UDF accusation that its actions were intended to bring down the government . |
| 10 | Herrera , until 1987 a collaborator with Gen. Manuel Noriega ( the Panamanian leader deposed by US intervention in December 1989 — see pp. 37112-13 ) , had been arrested on Oct. 25 and charged with planning to bring down the government [ see p. 37771 ] . |
| 11 | Indeed it could be argued that a dynastic conflict involving the interests of the Houses of Orléans , Bourbon , Bonaparte and Hohenzollern was the means chosen to bring down the Empire , even if it was not really the cause . |
| 12 | TREVOR FRANCIS last night refused to bring down the curtain on his playing career , even though Sheffield Wednesday chairman Dave Richards has begged him to bow out . |