Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] down [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use the patterns to write down the A three . |
| 2 | David Garbutt , Grampian 's depute chief constable , said : ‘ Mounting an elaborate hoax such as this is a serious criminal act and our investigation will use all available methods to track down the offender . |
| 3 | David Garbutt , Grampian 's depute chief constable , said : ‘ Mounting an elaborate hoax such as this is a serious criminal act and our investigation will use all available methods to track down the offender . |
| 4 | Rangers needed all of 20 minutes to catch their breath , responding to this constant raiding with play that was neat but frantic , despite Seaman 's signals to slow down the game . |
| 5 | Though he did not dictate , he went at a pace slow enough for the listeners to take down a lot of what he said . |
| 6 | In an effort to help stem the tide of rhino poaching which is now threatening the survival of the species , the UN Environment Programme has appointed a " special envoy " , charged with persuading governments to take steps to close down the trade in rhino products . |
| 7 | But in addition to his constructive plans , Lanfranc also took steps to cut down the force of opposition to his changes by sending away ‘ for correction ’ one of the chief trouble-makers , a monk called Osbern . |
| 8 | Attempts to track down the culprits who leaked information were commonly unsuccessful ; the photo-copier is a great help to those who wish to be disloyal . |
| 9 | They confirmed it was 32 per cent bigger all the way around than the plans allowed for — and now councillors have ordered the Foys to pull down the house , claiming it was built too big deliberately . |
| 10 | If we give the basis of the complaint , however , it is very easy for employers to look down the list and find out which employee comes from Linlithgow , Greenock and Port Glasgow , Aberdeen , North or Banff and Buchan . |
| 11 | Despite Adam 's devious attempts to play down the collaboration behind this superb work ( several resplendently bound copies are on display ) , credit is now given to James 's role as project manager , co-ordinating teams of engravers in Venice , Rome and London over the seven years before publication in 1764 . |
| 12 | It took Mel Fisher , an American obsessed with finding gold , 17 years to track down the wreck of the Atocha ; in the process , his son and daughter-in-law drowned . |
| 13 | The ability of the loyalist terrorists to track down the location is an illustration of how much better their intelligence on the IRA has become . |
| 14 | He got dealers to track down an enthusiast in Essex who had got in ahead of him , and made the supergenerous offer for the supercar . |
| 15 | The first true holder of the post , Lord Russell , had been ordered by the privy council to raise his troops to put down a West Country revolt against the prayer book . |
| 16 | If this is the case , then you may well want lots of hardy infantry and plenty of missile troops to scythe down the opposition as they advance on your army . |
| 17 | For example , the Bank of England would hardly have hesitated in the old days to close down a bank like BCCI , knowing that few first-rate domestic institutions were prepared to deal with it in quantity . |
| 18 | ACO is also sceptical about local authorities ' abilities to push down the costs . |
| 19 | Two previous attempts to shut down the school and transfer the pupils to Coldingham were successfully resisted . |
| 20 | The soldiers ' unit commander went to the scene with a group of unarmed subordinates , but upon being confronted by a stone-throwing mob numbering around 3,000 people he called in armed reinforcements which apparently used batons and firearms to put down the riot . |
| 21 | Once Buckthorn disturbed a snake , and leapt into the air as it whipped between his paws to vanish down a hole at the foot of a birch . |
| 22 | Indeed , we recently saw that the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) has taken actions to run down the region and its potential . |
| 23 | PUBLICANS are campaigning on behalf of their customers to keep down the price of the pint in the Republic . |
| 24 | For more than two weeks prior to Oct. 29 , the Central Bank had been selling an estimated US$50,000,000 in gold each day , in efforts to keep down the gold price ( and thereby to hold down the black-market dollar rate , whose divergence from the official rate provided a barometer of business confidence ) . |
| 25 | We will continue our efforts to break down the barriers that prevent them from competing freely throughout Europe and in the wider world . |
| 26 | The leading central banks are expected to redouble their efforts to push down the dollar once the German decision is announced — something which may ease pressure on the pound if it changes the focus of attention in the foreign exchange markets . |
| 27 | However , Eleanor Young vice-chairman of the National Association of Community Health Councils and chairman of Darlington CHC , expressed concern that recent efforts to bring down the lists would not be sustained over the next few months and years . |
| 28 | The benefits in terms of reliability and speed are dramatic enough — reckons that what took 20 minutes to send down a line can now take a tenth of the time . |
| 29 | As soon as steam trains were invented , up and running , they became the tools of the industrialist and of the punter on holiday , noisy , smelly , usually late , and the last word in ways to go down the coast . |
| 30 | Similar divisions existed at Bruen Stapleford in Cheshire , where on one occasion the local Puritan landowner , John Bruen , instructed his servants to pull down a maypole which had been erected on the village green . |