Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] down [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of these expectations , funds flow from short-term markets to long-term markets , thereby driving down long-term interest rates . |
| 2 | But they must be at their best to overcome the visitors , who are comfortably holding down third place in the division . |
| 3 | The IB is already hastening down this path . |
| 4 | Seb still contrived to spend a couple of hours with Carrie every Sunday evening to work on the farm 's ledgers , carefully noting down each item of expenditure and the profit made . |
| 5 | A principal reason for this interest is the failure of rule-based linguistics to produce a general purpose , intelligent language processor capable of adequately performing a number of rather basic linguistic tasks ( e.g. taking down unrestricted text , non-robotic reading aloud , making a precis of a text ) ( Sharman , 1990 ) . |