Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christian Braun , founder and director of the Overholland Foundation , has decided to close down the privately run museum on Museumsquare in Amsterdam . |
| 2 | Craig Brown , the under-21 team manager , has lost three of his current squad — Ferguson , Booth and Wright — to the full squad and has decided to stand down the rest of his Premier Division-based players at a time when league commitments in England have deprived him of Anglos . |
| 3 | By the same token , revisionist work has tended to play down the extent to which the intelligentsia set the goals and moulded the aspirations of peasants and workers . |
| 4 | Well , I 'd started going down the nick . |
| 5 | Then he give up , he got , you know , older and we bought the pony off him and she was used to rounds , you see , and she was used to pulling , after you 'd started going down the Fen she knew all the places . |
| 6 | Once she had written , another decision would have been taken , and he would tell them in the office that they were having a stab at Italy this year , he 'd managed to track down a villa in Tuscany . |
| 7 | When he 'd managed to count down the numbers and identify the exact address that she 'd named , he felt something go cold inside him . |
| 8 | It is a sad loss to this House that the right hon. and learned Gentleman should have decided to lay down the burden of representing the electors of Warley , West . |
| 9 | did not accept that the Vice-Chancellor had intended to lay down a rigid limitation on the exercise of the court 's discretion . |
| 10 | did not accept that the Vice-Chancellor in Cloverbay had intended to lay down a rule that no order could be made under section 236 if the purpose for which the office-holder claimed reasonably to require information sought included obtaining information the receipt of which would go beyond a reconstitution of knowledge which the company once had and was entitled in law to possess . |
| 11 | As I recall , I had conveyed a plea to Miss Kenton for assistance — via a messenger , naturally — and had left M. Dupont sitting in the billiard room awaiting his nurse , when the first footman had come hurrying down the staircase in some distress to inform me that my father had been taken ill upstairs . |
| 12 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 13 | Reports in early March had indicated that the IAEA had sought to play down the significance of a recent report submitted to the UN in which it was claimed that Iraq was offering " better co-operation " to IAEA inspectors . |
| 14 | Just before that vote Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats , the junior coalition partner , had reached agreement on tax reforms which had been the subject of three months of negotiation and which had threatened to bring down the government . |
| 15 | Albert Popple had decided to go down the Lamb and Flag after walking round the block several times . |
| 16 | what , you see , what , what happens you see , I mean all my re all the transactions here are done through banker 's orders you see and the banker 's orders they , they wo n't know who , who ever it is going to be responsible you know , but you 've got to put down the wife and , and yourself , see |
| 17 | They 've got to a adjust the tie backs , they have n't put the tie backs up yet because they 've got to come down a bit , I just hung them up to let them drop a bit . |
| 18 | She said oh I 've got to write down a credit limit . |
| 19 | No , we 've got to look down the race-card for some attractive , available , acquiescent filly — and the likeliest filly is surely — ’ |
| 20 | By the time I had been an intern for a few more months , doing my rounds in my white coat with stethoscope dangling round my neck ( and feeling very important ) , Father had had to close down the second branch , leaving — for the time being — only the original shop which he had opened near the Market Place where the annual Goose Fair was held . |
| 21 | they 've had to close down the spi , and that . |
| 22 | The next day , Beaverbrook ( who , with Amery , had been among those who had helped bring down the Lloyd George coalition in 1922 ) ‘ strongly urged ’ Amery ‘ to work closely with Hailsham both to keep the positive campaign going and decide when the critical moment should come for putting an end to the Coalition ’ . |
| 23 | My father 's father , a soldier in the Black Watch , had helped put down a rebellion one Easter in Dublin . |
| 24 | The whole bar was up on its feet to watch even before she had finished laying down the opening phrases ; by the time she was into the full fury of the aria , with its demanding coloratura decorations , its elaborate breathing technique and its famous placing of the pauses , we were all applauding and whistling . |
| 25 | The six confessed that they had planned to shoot down a helicopter carrying Lebanese Christian Army leader , Gen. Michel Aoun , on his arrival at Larnaca airport . |
| 26 | When people walk into an auditorium , one thing ought to happen and another ought not : their attention should be grabbed and held but at the same time they should n't fall flat on their faces because you 've failed to gaffer down a loose wire . |
| 27 | If only he had managed to force down a little more dynercaprol and potassium chloride ! |
| 28 | As a corollary , AI-workers have tended to play down the importance of neurophysiological knowledge about the brain . |
| 29 | Yesterday , Marchant boss Philip Marchant said : ‘ We have had to batten down the hatches . |
| 30 | Right now so the tap is to control the speed at which the acid goes in and if there is any gas that 's in there it ca n't escape out of that pipe again it 's got to go down the other pipe . |