Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Marx believed that ruling class ideology could only slow down the disintegration of the system . |
| 2 | What else if I , I have to go and relieve er if I want er to only work down the cabin and it come to meal times cos we carried on dredging from six in the morning we do al all the winters round cos they eat on the dredger they used to eat three winches four winches on the dredger cos they 'd heave the dredger across the river and back again , wo when they come to meal times I used to have to go on and relieve the man what was driving that winch and I used t cos the er er chins coming round the barrel of the winch they used to override and I used to have a handle to knock them clear . |
| 3 | Mr Craxi thinks the new rules would penalise smaller parties such as his own ; hence the speculation that he would rather bring down the government than allow the referendums to happen . |
| 4 | MARTINA NAVRATILOVA yesterday revealed that she will finally bring down the curtain on her incredible career at the end of next year . |
| 5 | Well there was always the parlour , you must have the parlour and er you , you had two living rooms and the one was the parlour and there was a cellar underneath the parlour and er the stairs used to come in from the back and go up , up the stairs over the entrance to the cellar but the stairs used to run up there underneath the stairs was the entrance to the cellar , there was a door , so that you could n't just walk down the cellar without opening the door you see , but apart from that there was er there was just the two , two bedrooms . |
| 6 | I 'm not going to Nettos today I 'll make do just go down the bottom . |
| 7 | In other words , you should n't just hold down the chord shape and pick the notes out as they lie under your hand ; each double has its own fingering . |
| 8 | We 'd only just put down the phone to them . |
| 9 | Oh no , that 'll just shut down the gain and this |
| 10 | Naturally , you would not normally shut down the LIFESPAN Process while Offline is running . |
| 11 | Do n't get drawn into committing your supporting troops into combat if they can just as easily pin down the enemy from a distance . |
| 12 | Furthermore , it may be in Big 's interest to deliberately slow down the progress of an acquisition possibly to await the occurrence of certain events or to put pressure on the vendor . |
| 13 | Hence any improvement in efficiency or availability of contraception will always drive down the birth-rate . |
| 14 | If she should mention to Constance that someone had treated her shabbily and Constance referred the matter to her brothers , they would uncomplainingly track down the brute and teach him manners . |
| 15 | No they can probably see down the end and they |
| 16 | These cells will later lay down the skeleton and move on the inner wall of the blastula to take up a characteristic ring-like pattern . |
| 17 | The increased competition from imported coal which the proposed privatization of the electricity industry was expected to unleash would also force down the price of British mined coal — most of which is used in CEGB power stations . |
| 18 | The brewers argued that introducing arbitration would inevitably slow down the process of negotiating agreements . |
| 19 | You can really cut down the risk in fucking by using condoms as long as they 're good quality and used properly . |
| 20 | This process will inevitably continue down the system to the point where the words are actually translated into teaching acts . |
| 21 | Oh yes I know one man there now , well he 's so dumb he 'd rather go down the hold , than he would do marking the pencil and paper . |
| 22 | He 's so thick , you know he 'll say right I 'll go down the hold , I 'll do the humping , what they call humping , he 'll do that , loading these slings or bags , rather than him standing there and say well ten bags in that sling , put ten down , he could n't do that , so he 'd rather go down the hold that 's happened . |
| 23 | So far from sending prices up , the abolition of licensing would immediately bring down the market price of existing houses and would in a short time begin to make an impression on the costs of new ones ; for the pressure of demand for new houses at a cost of nearly £2,000 apiece for a council-type is , in our opinion , very limited . |
| 24 | Do not make the concrete too sloppy , or it will simply slide down the earth steps and force its way out at the bottom tread . |
| 25 | Thatcher diktats do not simply slide down the Cabinet table like castor oil . |
| 26 | Well I just thought I 'd go over now and I might as well go down the shop when |
| 27 | This may arise when there are excesses in the diet or when the digestive system is upset and weakened so that it can not fully break down the food for the body to use . |
| 28 | The program will then work down the list of pieces that have stitch patterns allocated to them and ask whether you want to superimpose the piece on to the stitch pattern . |
| 29 | Having perfected each manoeuvre in the flat water , I could then sail down the estuary to the open sea and practise what I had learned on the waves . |
| 30 | For example , if a court decides that the meaning of the word ‘ repair ’ is a question of fact , but that it is , in the context of the particular legislation , a jurisdictional fact , the court will then lay down the interpretation that should be given to such a term . |