Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] down [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Killer bug shuts down baby ward |
| 2 | Yesterday traders tracked down show chairman Alistair McCloud to his hotel room in Aylesbury , but he refused to answer the door . |
| 3 | Nigel Tinkler sends down Bank View to carry top weight and this Yorkshire trainer has a good record with his southern . |
| 4 | Last November the executive committee turned down North Down 's application . |
| 5 | A plan to take down Minto House in the Scottish Borders and rebuild it stone by stone as a country club in Japan has been abandoned . |
| 6 | Joyriders run down wheelchair mother |
| 7 | The nineteenth-century origins of these provisions are closely tied into a desire to hold down state expenditure and to ensure that the wealthier classes did not have to dig too deep into their pockets to support people who could not work for wages . |
| 8 | To cope with these complications , socialization theories break down gender psychology into ever simpler units , and build up more and more elaborate models of learning around them . |
| 9 | A filing mechanism cuts down debtor misbehaviour because the availability of reliable information about the debtor 's property reduces the debtor 's incentive to misbehave by removing the opportunity to do so . |
| 10 | John Coffin walked down Church Row on his way home , cutting through Queen Charlotte 's Alley , on purpose to have a look at the house where the Flemings lived . |
| 11 | So Malcolm went down Club Row market and bought us a cat and the most ridiculously horrible food — tins of sardines and those disgusting tinned plum tomatoes they used to try and make you eat at school . |
| 12 | If my right hon. Friend is looking for ways to cut down car crime , will he have a word with the producers of ’ Inspector Morse ’ . |
| 13 | Training breaks down muscle tissue and during rest periods the tissue is repaired and growth takes place if sufficient protein is available . |
| 14 | Twenty minutes later Slendertone pads were placed on Santa 's fattest points to break down fluid retention . |
| 15 | Oz , he thought , might be Private Eye all over again only this time without the smart-alec Shrewsbury and Oxford public school boys putting down grammar school boys with ideas above their station . |
| 16 | The Supreme Court relies on the language of equal protection to strike down state legislation that recognizes fundamental rights for some and not others . |
| 17 | In the late morning he left the house to walk down Church Row to the garage where he kept his car . |
| 18 | Its reason for this is largely to do with its distrust of the judges who , it feels , would use their power to strike down government action or legislation as being contrary to a Bill of Rights , as the American courts can do , to promote their own conservative values . |
| 19 | It was predictable that the onerousness of the rating task held down response rate somewhat ( 33 per cent of a target population of 200 ) , but less predictably , great suspicion was aroused by the use of multiplication as a way of combining the two components of need for change . |