Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to go down the village , I want to go down the shops . |
| 2 | The first coordinate value of a pair refers to position down the page from the top , while the second coordinate is the distance across the paper from the left . |
| 3 | I do n't want to go down the village , I want to go down the shops . |
| 4 | Yeah right it ca n't get out it has to go down the pipe . |
| 5 | Your Mum ca n't afford toilet paper , she has to slide down the banisters . |
| 6 | For a wood glue-to be effective it has to penetrate down the tubes for some distance so as to get hold of the undamaged wood . |
| 7 | When the recipient is not expected to write down the details , it is often the case that the speaker repeats them sometimes several times over . |
| 8 | A continuing sensitivity is demonstrated by Chinese protests over officially approved Japanese textbooks which appear to play down the iniquities of Japanese actions before 1945 . |
| 9 | Downing Street tried to dampen down the story , saying the press officer had not mentioned anything about ‘ whingers ’ . |
| 10 | Bloomsbury House tried to dampen down the enthusiasm for Lyons — the uniforms were very expensive to provide — but many ended up working there . |
| 11 | I suppose you think I mean I want to walk down the aisle in white with my friends watching , but that 's not it , that 's not what this feeling is to do with . |
| 12 | Those closest to Camilla yesterday tried to play down the scandal . |
| 13 | We tried to play down the tackiness , but it did n't work . |
| 14 | At the CPSU congress currently in session Gorbachev tried to play down the significance of the strikes , claiming that the " general strike " urged by independent miner 's leaders had not materialized . |
| 15 | Delaney tried to play down the fear in his voice — fear for her . |
| 16 | On the whole , considering the close contact of a hundred Macleans and three hundred Campbells each itching to do down the others , politely of course , the week 's visit went off quietly . |
| 17 | The fingerboard is ebony , with exquisite maple leaf inlays lacking nothing in detail as they appear to drift down the neck towards the body . |
| 18 | The answer is that no-one can control or even forecast accurately the maximum flow of water that can be expected to surge down the Tay valley and through Perth . |
| 19 | Sometimes chemicals known as buffers are added to slow down the reaction rate thereby reducing corrosiveness . |
| 20 | ‘ If you want to slow down the game , ’ said another Ottawa official , ‘ one good tactic is to keep changing the players ’ . |
| 21 | Strikingly , MITI frequently tried to slow down the rate of accumulation to avoid overcapacity , a problem exacerbated by the increasing size of new plants which reduced the number to be built each year . |
| 22 | In practice , the state scheme contributions pre-empt a slice of incomes which would otherwise be available for saving through pension schemes , and thus to that extent would be expected to slow down the growth of non-state provision . |
| 23 | The restrictions were initially adopted as a temporary measure designed to slow down the flight of foreign currency reserves from the country . |
| 24 | If the LTA really wants to break down the class barriers in British tennis , then let it encourage families of lesser means into the game — not discourage them . |
| 25 | When his father , frustrated after years as a POW , returned , he tried to lay down the law . |
| 26 | The Catholic Church had made a bad mistake with Galileo when it tried to lay down the law on a question of science , declaring that the sun went round the earth . |
| 27 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 28 | A members ' voluntary liquidation usually happens because a company 's shareholders want to close down the business and get their money back . |
| 29 | Residential homes , and long stay nursing homes in particular , appear to cut down the use of hospital care during the last year of people 's lives . |
| 30 | The commission wants to tie down the December deal as soon as possible . ’ |