Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] down [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday traders tracked down show chairman Alistair McCloud to his hotel room in Aylesbury , but he refused to answer the door . |
| 2 | Last November the executive committee turned down North Down 's application . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |