Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] down the [noun sg] " 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 | Yeah right it ca n't get out it has to go down the pipe . |
| 4 | Downing Street tried to dampen down the story , saying the press officer had not mentioned anything about ‘ whingers ’ . |
| 5 | Bloomsbury House tried to dampen down the enthusiasm for Lyons — the uniforms were very expensive to provide — but many ended up working there . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Those closest to Camilla yesterday tried to play down the scandal . |
| 8 | We tried to play down the tackiness , but it did n't work . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Delaney tried to play down the fear in his voice — fear for her . |
| 11 | The fingerboard is ebony , with exquisite maple leaf inlays lacking nothing in detail as they appear to drift down the neck towards the body . |
| 12 | Sometimes chemicals known as buffers are added to slow down the reaction rate thereby reducing corrosiveness . |
| 13 | ‘ If you want to slow down the game , ’ said another Ottawa official , ‘ one good tactic is to keep changing the players ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The restrictions were initially adopted as a temporary measure designed to slow down the flight of foreign currency reserves from the country . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When his father , frustrated after years as a POW , returned , he tried to lay down the law . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A members ' voluntary liquidation usually happens because a company 's shareholders want to close down the business and get their money back . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Vandals tried to burn down the school in Milton Keynes at the weekend . |
| 24 | Is n't it true that someone tried to burn down the barn your Sparrowgrass was stabled in a month ago ? |
| 25 | ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days . |
| 26 | The 26 Tory rebels who tried to bring down the government |
| 27 | ‘ They want to bring down the Chancellor and thereby to undermine the Prime Minister himself , ’ he said . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He yearned to gulp down the coffee that remained , he craved to ask for more . |
| 30 | 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 . |