Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 2 | Everything here is dynamic and very competitive ; hotels , restaurants , theatres , which beach you go to , and that drives down the prices and car prices unfortunately . |
| 3 | That hungers down the blood-smell even to a leak of its own |
| 4 | 2 Push down the clutch plate ( a ) and draw back the piston rod ( b ) |
| 5 | If you 're willing to go down the route to drag hunting I am willing to support any hunt that wants to go down that route and I am sure this authority would . |
| 6 | This slows down the towplane , leaving it at low speed below the glider and having its tail pulled up out of control . |
| 7 | This cuts down the risk of a photographer becoming stale and running out of ideas about how to present the material . |
| 8 | Amongst those who did not do duty in this year 's championship are Phil Davies ( standing down as Llanelli skipper after a highly successful five year run ; reverting to the second row and declaring his intention to challenge for a place in the Lions party in that position — remember the trouble he gave Paul Ackford when Wales last beat England in 1989 ) ; David Bryant ( controversially appointed a youthful pack leader in his first season in international rugby under the John Ryan regime , now recovered from a debilitating period of illness ) ; Andy Allen ( the front jumper was capped out of Newbridge in 1990 , subsequently becoming yet another moving down the valley to Newport ) ; Aled Williams ( one cap as a replacement wing in Namibia in 1990 , when a Bridgend player , but increasingly favoured by many to join Robert Jones in forming a club halfback partnership ) . |
| 9 | Thessy arrived first , tired after an uncomfortable night on the ferry , and five minutes later Bellybutton half danced and half shuffled down the pontoon with a can of paint and a pocketful of rags and brushes . |
| 10 | When the chicks are reared , some go down the west coast of the Americas all the way to Patagonia . |
| 11 | And then this went down the barrel and you know , hit whatever it wanted to hit and each shot cost a thousand pounds ! |
| 12 | He felt the contact was so invaluable that he was prepared to turn down the job at the head of one of the UK 's premier blue-chip companies if it meant making such a sacrifice . |
| 13 | 2 Write down the words from the same dictionary page which are missing in these sentences . |
| 14 | By having the individual numbers logged at a central computer , it is then possible to track down the dog 's owner without difficulty . |
| 15 | As a result , I believe it is appropriate to write down the value of our assets by a substantial amount . |
| 16 | An understanding of this can do much to damp down the fires of impatience , and kindle those of tolerance in younger people , for ‘ Granny 's old stories ’ . |
| 17 | The Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 came down the day after the fourth anniversary of the Lockerbie bomb — allegedly planted by two Libyans — which killed 270 . |
| 18 | A spokesman at Number 10 played down the snub . |
| 19 | On lap 21 , it seemed it might have a niggling problem with its drivers as Patrese made a serious lunge down the inside and Mansell made an equally serious attempt to stop him . |
| 20 | In a Plinian eruption , it 's usually impossible to pin down the site of the vent exactly , since it stands a high chance of being obliterated or destroyed by the eruption itself . |
| 21 | He is perching on the railway , six stops down the line , with a stationmaster he got to know somehow when he was on the town in Petersburg — the Dostoevsky no-home at its most stripped and strange in this novel of aimless movement . |
| 22 | So there 's this enormously long testing period now takes place and that cuts down the risk of their being disasters or catastrophes . |
| 23 | The three climbing down the ladder broke the spell that transfixed them , petrified them into plaster statues . |
| 24 | Fear of a tired , cold and blackened miner returning from a hard shift down the pit , caused the fire to be stoked to a raging blaze . |
| 25 | Certainly , in essence this is a political decision , but it would be naive to play down the extent to which this and other aspects of the policy agenda is shaped by officials . |
| 26 | These run down the valley to the west of the river through Black Hall , Birks and Grassguards farms to Seathwaite village ( 4.5 miles ) . |
| 27 | Because there had been a recent spate of thefts from boats in the area the Club had formed its own teams of vigilantes who patrolled the moorings and by chance one of these noted down the camper 's registration number . |
| 28 | Even then Dibich 's death from cholera on 29 May / 10 June 1831 slowed down the advance of the tsarist troops , but Paskevich had already been summoned from the Caucasus and eventual Russian victory was assured . |
| 29 | Sadly the most vicious of these brought down the rig on ‘ Strictly Business ’ on only the second outing for this interesting-looking Castro newcomer now owned by Nigel Musto ( RCYC ) . |
| 30 | The only rider to this is the prolonged use of steroids and drugs which have an effect on the body 's immune system as these damp down the body 's ability to react and often render subsequent homoeopathic treatment difficult . |