Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Marx believed that ruling class ideology could only slow down the disintegration of the system . |
| 2 | What else if I , I have to go and relieve er if I want er to only work down the cabin and it come to meal times cos we carried on dredging from six in the morning we do al all the winters round cos they eat on the dredger they used to eat three winches four winches on the dredger cos they 'd heave the dredger across the river and back again , wo when they come to meal times I used to have to go on and relieve the man what was driving that winch and I used t cos the er er chins coming round the barrel of the winch they used to override and I used to have a handle to knock them clear . |
| 3 | Mr Craxi thinks the new rules would penalise smaller parties such as his own ; hence the speculation that he would rather bring down the government than allow the referendums to happen . |
| 4 | ‘ I did not throw down the gauntlet ! |
| 5 | This time the ascension does not bring down the curtain on the life of Jesus ; instead , the curtain goes up on the life of the Church . |
| 6 | MARTINA NAVRATILOVA yesterday revealed that she will finally bring down the curtain on her incredible career at the end of next year . |
| 7 | Make sure that the ventilation pipe is unobstructed , and that water can not run down the pipe into the house . |
| 8 | The method of preparing the blank before inserting the cutlery blank is simply to drill and clean out the hole in the shaft before fixing , put the Special T on the tang and insert with the handle on top so the Special T does not run down the wood . |
| 9 | And said , oh , let's go and find a cup of coffee but , have a bit of a walk and walk down to conference but we 'll not walk down the prom |
| 10 | On Europe , to put it beyond all doubt in this House , in the country , and on the continent , will my right hon. Friend reaffirm that it is the policy of Her Majesty 's Government that Britain shall not go down the route of a federal Europe and that it is for Britain to decide on the future of her own currency ? |
| 11 | Well there was always the parlour , you must have the parlour and er you , you had two living rooms and the one was the parlour and there was a cellar underneath the parlour and er the stairs used to come in from the back and go up , up the stairs over the entrance to the cellar but the stairs used to run up there underneath the stairs was the entrance to the cellar , there was a door , so that you could n't just walk down the cellar without opening the door you see , but apart from that there was er there was just the two , two bedrooms . |
| 12 | I 'm not going to Nettos today I 'll make do just go down the bottom . |
| 13 | In other words , you should n't just hold down the chord shape and pick the notes out as they lie under your hand ; each double has its own fingering . |
| 14 | We 'd only just put down the phone to them . |
| 15 | Oh no , that 'll just shut down the gain and this |
| 16 | The women may close down the village boozer , but they will not shut down the business altogether . |
| 17 | Naturally , you would not normally shut down the LIFESPAN Process while Offline is running . |
| 18 | If we offer this kind of text to children , and if the gulf between the two languages is to be bridged , then we must not play down the magnitude of the learning task which children face . |
| 19 | Despite allaying concerns felt by some teachers , the adviser did not play down the accountability purpose to the exercise , nor was the self-appraisal presented as much more than providing factual information and describing their policy and practice . |
| 20 | Do n't get drawn into committing your supporting troops into combat if they can just as easily pin down the enemy from a distance . |
| 21 | If you are driving alone in a car , do not stop to pick up hitch-hikers , always lock all your doors if you are sitting in a parked car and do not roll down the window to give a suspicious looking stranger directions . |
| 22 | Council leader Michael Carr said : ‘ We can not turn down the opportunity of extra resources for areas of particular need . |
| 23 | Hilda did not turn down the gas . |
| 24 | Furthermore , it may be in Big 's interest to deliberately slow down the progress of an acquisition possibly to await the occurrence of certain events or to put pressure on the vendor . |
| 25 | Hence any improvement in efficiency or availability of contraception will always drive down the birth-rate . |
| 26 | If she should mention to Constance that someone had treated her shabbily and Constance referred the matter to her brothers , they would uncomplainingly track down the brute and teach him manners . |
| 27 | No they can probably see down the end and they |
| 28 | These cells will later lay down the skeleton and move on the inner wall of the blastula to take up a characteristic ring-like pattern . |
| 29 | The increased competition from imported coal which the proposed privatization of the electricity industry was expected to unleash would also force down the price of British mined coal — most of which is used in CEGB power stations . |
| 30 | The brewers argued that introducing arbitration would inevitably slow down the process of negotiating agreements . |