Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] down a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the ferret has fallen down a vertical hole within the burrow the line ferret , on approaching , may not necessarily do the same thing . |
| 2 | Norwich were trailing Grant , who has turned down a new contract , last season and have maintained their interest . |
| 3 | Former West Indies captain Viv Richards has turned down a lucrative offer to play Currie Cup cricket for South Africa 's Western Province . |
| 4 | The suit seeks injunctive relief and monetary damages and the court has handed down a preliminary injunction forbidding sale of Axil 's Model 230 SparcStation 10 clone and a temporary restraining order on its Model 310 . |
| 5 | I shall return to that point later , but I want to put down a clear marker now . |
| 6 | This means that British Coal has to shut down a large amount of its production capacity , and this they attempted last autumn . |
| 7 | The government has laid down a 20 per cent limit to stakes . |
| 8 | And in 1994 , expect an IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Corp Windows NT port ‘ when NT has settled down a little bit , ’ says Schuster . |
| 9 | And in 1994 , expect an IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Corp Windows NT version ‘ when NT has settled down a little bit , ’ says Schuster . |
| 10 | His business has gone down a third . |
| 11 | Personality development is impaired when an individual has shut down a broad range of feelings and ways of relating , in the belief , unconsciously arrived at , that it is unsafe to do otherwise . |
| 12 | You can often see translucent curtain formations — where water has seeped down a sloping , overhanging wall . |
| 13 | His plane seemed to swoop down a straight slope until an abrupt crackle signalled the moment to pull out . |
| 14 | They 'd gone down a narrow alleyway — up North they 're called ‘ ginnels ’ but do n't ask me why ; I just observe , I do n't translate — which led to another alley at right-angles . |
| 15 | Now I 'm going to pull down a whole pile of these things and make a nest out of them so we 'll be warm and cosy until we 're rescued from each other . ’ |
| 16 | Before concluding I would just like to put down a few words on permission and such like . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd like to stay down a little while — hear more about your family , too . |
| 18 | On the whole , the champions of the literal approach have been the party attempting to strike down a particular clause whilst the object and intent approach tends to favour parties who are attempting to uphold the restraint . |
| 19 | He lacks social adroitness , or any kind of personal magnetism , as he struggles to hold down a charmless job which depends on the goodwill of others . |
| 20 | The start of the game , with Scotland camped in Malta 's half , appeared to imply that the night would be spent wearing down a Maltese defence which used Buttigieg as a sweeper behind four other bodies . |
| 21 | Money may have disappeared down a black hole ( the budget was $40m according to Hurd , though industry sources put it nearer $50m ) , but it has all been spent on spectacle , not marquee names : Ed Harris ( from Jacknife ) and Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio star as an oil-rig foreman and the project engineer , both brought in to rescue a striken nuclear submarine . |
| 22 | Although the output reductions are a worry in themselves , they do at least suggest that the industry is not about to start laying down a large supply of surplus whisky that could upset prices in the future . |
| 23 | having to cut down a little bit but I enjoy my look at Dartmoor when I get out there and I 'm busy with the church and |
| 24 | One of the players whose future is assured is 18-year-old Jamie Pollock , who is set to return to the side tonight after struggling to hold down a regular place . |
| 25 | and then we 'd 've gone down a different avenue |
| 26 | A green ( yes green ) tinged under-base or moisturiser helps to tone down a ruddy complexion . |
| 27 | The LTTE claimed to have shot down a Marchetti combat aircraft with a SAM 7 missile . |
| 28 | Polisario also claimed to have shot down a Moroccan Mirage F-1 fighter and to have succeeded in occupying a 25-km section of the Moroccan wall . |
| 29 | On Aug. 4 and 5 , in the week before UN staff were due to arrive in the territory to start preparing the January 1992 UN-supervised referendum [ see p. 38169 ] , Moroccan aircraft strafed the oasis of Tfariti in the north-east , near the Mauritanian border , while Polisario Front guerrillas claimed to have shot down a Moroccan aircraft . |
| 30 | Pulled in by the cops , having to rescue a naked vicar and now it looked as if I was going to have to talk down a paranoid lesbian . |