Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They eventually agreed to walk down the driveway and pose for pictures . |
| 2 | This simple but effective method of steam generation eliminates the need for a boiler so helping to cut down the incidence of scaling while also reducing water consumption by up to 80 per cent . |
| 3 | For starters , we only decided to break down the barriers and go for overseas imports last year because we needed an out-and-out fast bowler to make any impact on the championship . |
| 4 | Let us not constantly try to talk down the coal industry . |
| 5 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 6 | When the recipient is not expected to write down the details , it is often the case that the speaker repeats them sometimes several times over . |
| 7 | I am not attempting to lay down the law , but simply wish to voice my opinion that ethics should be the first guideline of those dealing with public resources . |
| 8 | They were the nearest residents to the front line and most of them had not dared to walk down the boulevard for more than a year . |
| 9 | Since there is also other well known evidence collected by Sachs , Kirkpatrick , Zaslaw and others from L'Affilard , Pajot , la Chapelle , Marguet , Quantz , Pasquali , Choquel , Engramelle et al. , indicating that from 1717 to 1775 minuets were danced both fast and slow , anywhere between MM 53 and 80 per bar , is it really likely that it was only during the 1780s that musicians of the time just happened to slow down the minuet , playing only the bottom side of minuet tempos and not the top side then to speed up again afterwards by the 1790s and 1800s ? |
| 10 | In this sense professionals have already attempted to break down the norms of public discourse to bring on the clients of welfare who have suffered in silence . |
| 11 | Few can afford those sorts of funds : Maxwell was finally forced to close down the London Daily News in 1987 in the face of mounting costs . |
| 12 | You have to have a licence to have a C.B. and when you get your licence you also get given a rule book which tells you all the things you are and are not allowed to do and say when using the C.B. One of the rules is that you are not allowed to swear down the C.B. as anybody can listen into your conversation and hear you swearing . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There were more abseils to get down the Wellenkuppe 's rock pitch . |
| 15 | ‘ No woman would ever want to walk down the aisle thinking that she was the bet in a silly game of golf . ’ |
| 16 | A Downing Street spokeswoman yesterday sought to play down the significance of the meeting , saying : ‘ The Prime Minister sees all sorts of people from time to time to talk about issues that interest her . ’ |
| 17 | In three years of misery at White Hart Lane , the former England Under-21 was cruelly nicknamed ‘ Booby ’ Mimms — and he is still struggling to live down the tag , despite being the Premier League 's least charitable keeper this season . |
| 18 | Those closest to Camilla yesterday tried to play down the scandal . |
| 19 | Unless the bank see new management , Virginia , the company your grandparents established is rapidly going to go down the pan — ’ |
| 20 | SERB Premier Milan Panic yesterday vowed to shut down the Yugoslav torture camps within 30 days . |
| 21 | Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir , himself Polish-born , had once commented that " Poles suck in anti-Semitism with their mothers ' milk " , and a main purpose of Walesa 's visit was to ease the strains between the two countries centring on enduring Polish anti-Semitism ; Walesa himself was still trying to live down the controversy caused by a statement during his 1990 presidential campaign that he was " clean " because his family had no Jewish blood . |
| 22 | Benjamin 's hands positively itched to take down the leather , jewel-embossed tomes ( so did mine for other reasons ) , but Mandeville shook his head . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Then open the vents and hatches , ’ he suggested , automatically ducking to go down the companionway . |
| 25 | If the LTA really wants to break down the class barriers in British tennis , then let it encourage families of lesser means into the game — not discourage them . |
| 26 | ICI says it may now have to close down the business . |
| 27 | For example , you are often asked to write down the numbers of the questions answered in the order in which they are attempted . |
| 28 | He is now trying to pull down the house about the ears of Winchester 's Tories . |
| 29 | Police inquiries have so far failed to track down the culprits and now the victim has appealed for his heroic rescuer to come forward and help the investigation . |
| 30 | The digestive system of the cat is less successful in this respect and often fails to break down the dangerous elements in ingested substances to make them harmless . |