Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At several sites , protesting miners were reported to have gone down the pits and stayed there following the announcement . |
| 2 | In July FIS militants were reported to have burned down a divorced woman 's house " to purge her sins ' , resulting in the death of her three-year-old son . |
| 3 | In the first attack of its type in the 11-year civil war , the FMLN were said to have shot down an A-37 jet aircraft on Nov. 23 with a Sam-7 or Sam-14 ground-to-air missile . |
| 4 | Boulders up to 3 km long are said to have fallen down a scarp along an outcrop more than 300 km long . |
| 5 | ‘ According to this girl , ’ says Charles , ‘ great avalanches are going to come sliding down the mountains , burying people by the dozen . ’ |
| 6 | But when they arrived to start pulling down the George hotel at Nailsworth in Gloucestershire , they were confronted by two hundred angry protesters . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The LTTE claimed to have shot down a Marchetti combat aircraft with a SAM 7 missile . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Not that he 's the only climber who appears to wish to play down the education aspects of his past — amongst many others with whom you can have sport in this manner are Stephen Venables ( Charterhouse ) , our own Tom Prentice at Climber ( Harrow ) , or even Ed himself ( Uppingham ) . |
| 12 | However , there is 5000 tonnes a year of , presumably , both mildly and highly toxic wastes that appears to have gone down a hole somewhere — perhaps literally . |
| 13 | But now he 's in his forties he seems to have slowed down a bit . ’ |
| 14 | The largest landslide of all in the Alps , that of Flims in Switzerland , is calculated to have brought down a mass of three cubic miles of material . |
| 15 | I 'm trying to establish put down a figure of forty six thousand for migration . |
| 16 | Teachers have to struggle to break down a pupil 's conceptions of what is ‘ beautiful ’ , ‘ lovely ’ and nice to watch in order to release the real potential . |
| 17 | The crew of the Type 21 frigate HMS Avenger also claims to have shot down an Exocet with one . |