Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] down [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chilled though she was by the bleakness of his voice , it was not enough to damp down the new life in her head . |
| 2 | TO find a special game in the Mega Drive version of Klax , merely hold down the Left and Up diagonal plus A , B , C and Start simultaneously at the title screen . |
| 3 | Suddenly Tring found themselves in front , with City committed to attack , Tring suddenly broke down the right and Danny Glass saw his strike-on goal pushed away by Taylor , but only into the path of Danny Rook following up , who put home after sixty five minutes . |
| 4 | Whether Rainbow remembers or not , history will never know , because she is too busy choking on a gulp of tea that has suddenly slipped down the wrong way . |
| 5 | And he he more or less laid down the whole theory of probability , in a few days , Pascal |
| 6 | But the suspect must have noticed him , because he suddenly waved down a passing taxi and drove off . |
| 7 | His films were relatively few and he felt confident enough to turn down a good many more films than a hungrier actor might have felt was healthy . |
| 8 | Further uprisings occurred until 1649 when Oliver Cromwell , fresh from his victory in the English Civil War , brutally put down the recalcitrant Gaels . |
| 9 | The students not only tore down the separate ‘ Ladies ’ and ‘ Gentlemen ’ notices from the lavatories … but they even painted out the distinction between first floor and second , between second and third and so on : even purely functional classifications of space had to go , just as the watches and clocks had to be discarded in order to free time . |
| 10 | This experience is even more painful to those children of members of the meritocracy who are not bright and so move down the social and economic scale . |
| 11 | It 's hard enough to break down the old prejudices — I know that from experience . |
| 12 | During the 1930s , however , it was the Conservatives who capitalized most effectively on the larger consequences of the Wall Street Crash , using them not only to bring down a Labour Government and introduce tariffs aimed at imperial consolidation , but also to promote among the masses the spirit of patriotic self-congratulation so eloquently projected by Stanley Baldwin : |
| 13 | Despite the party leadership 's opposition to aspects of Mr Nemeth 's austerity measures , the budget is expected to be approved today , after parliament successfully watered down the controversial changes in housing policy which entailed steep rent rises and a sharp increase in mortgage payments . |
| 14 | It seems that many people , perhaps without even thinking about it , would rather do down the other player than cooperate with the other player to do down the banker . |
| 15 | Lobbying by pharmaceutical companies has already watered down a proposed directive which at first suggested forcing them to include detailed information on dosage and usage on advertisements . |
| 16 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 17 | he said just put down the main |
| 18 | The Captain 's men were already clattering down the broad stone staircase , ignoring the slow old li– . |
| 19 | The sociologist of religion ( usually ) does not just plonk down a whole lot of data and let the reader make what he or she will of it . |
| 20 | Readers from last month will be glad to know that I finally tracked down the elusive Tequila based Marguerita in a Tex-Mex cafe in Covent Garden . |
| 21 | Just coming down a little bit . |
| 22 | Is that significantly different from zero right , well you just go down the right hand column in degrees of freedom until we reach thirty . |
| 23 | The Balkans underwent successive crises of competing nationalisms , one of which finally brought down the pre-1914 structure of European power . |
| 24 | If you do n't find that plausible for some particular example that you have imagined , just turn down the imaginary light a bit , or move a bit further away from the imaginary object ! |
| 25 | And a man to whom she had just thrown down a deliberate challenge . |
| 26 | Athelstan hid a smile , looking at the sweat still pouring down the fat coroner 's face , the great , stout stomach wobbling with a mixture of pride and anger . |
| 27 | These products , claim the manufacturers , prevent crust formation and solids settlement without the need for agitation , thus permitting easy and total emptying of the slurry store , digesting the solid material and biochemically breaking down the odorous chemical molecules . |
| 28 | You would think that these rabbits would have no chance against the combined land and air assaults of ferrets and hawk , but they were incredibly fast and usually disappeared down a safe hole before our Harris 's could get hold of them , even though the Harris 's hawk moves like lightning . |
| 29 | She puts her glass under Teddy 's nose for a refill , drinks her wine , and after audibly gulping down a big mouthful , she raises her glass . |
| 30 | ‘ And the traffic will be so congested at this time of afternoon , you 'll hardly get down the High at all , and it 's clouding over , and Felicity should acclimatize herself before she goes out , particularly since Magdalen is so cold at this time of — ’ |