Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose you think I mean I want to walk down the aisle in white with my friends watching , but that 's not it , that 's not what this feeling is to do with . |
| 2 | The fingerboard is ebony , with exquisite maple leaf inlays lacking nothing in detail as they appear to drift down the neck towards the body . |
| 3 | ‘ If you want to slow down the game , ’ said another Ottawa official , ‘ one good tactic is to keep changing the players ’ . |
| 4 | A members ' voluntary liquidation usually happens because a company 's shareholders want to close down the business and get their money back . |
| 5 | Residential homes , and long stay nursing homes in particular , appear to cut down the use of hospital care during the last year of people 's lives . |
| 6 | ‘ They want to bring down the Chancellor and thereby to undermine the Prime Minister himself , ’ he said . |
| 7 | At the present time the English tend to play down the significance of affinal relationships but , even so , the statement " she has made a good marriage " is more likely to refer to the social and financial standing of the husband 's immediate kin than to the personal qualities of the husband himself . |
| 8 | But egalitarian feminists tend to play down the value of biological explanations . |
| 9 | Egon Zehnder consultants tend to play down the headhunter image , now freely accepted by most of the Big Four's directors , and see themselves , like their European colleagues , as management consultants . |
| 10 | Or remain to stare down the reflection of his own fear ? |
| 11 | Given the rate at which parts of the crag seem to tumble down the hillside , including some famous classic routes , you ought to make the effort sooner rather than later , before any more lines disappear . |
| 12 | Later that afternoon , there was an inspection of the course , and while sideslipping down behind Mueller I was amazed to seen him remove his skis and begin walking down the course , an activity known as ‘ bootpacking ’ . |
| 13 | When you can manage this too , then begin cutting down the rest intervals to one minute . |
| 14 | Residential homes seem to cut down the use of hospital care ; they probably also reduce the need for it , but this is less certain . |
| 15 | But I did n't get married four times because I like trolling down the aisle , I got married four times because I like the idea of being married and I like sharing my life with a man . |
| 16 | now if I was to go there and back that 's eighty pence , I mean I could get , for , for that e extra eighty pence I could get a few things in there that are dearer but I mean I like going down the town anyway and just wander and go back but I do get a few more bits in there now than I did . |
| 17 | We crash to the ground and roll fighting down the slope . |
| 18 | Read it aloud half a dozen times then try to set down the framework and some key ‘ trigger words ’ on half a dozen index cards . |
| 19 | I mean , well if you have n't got gauze in your first aid box , but you could have something like a Mediwipe or you might be able to use , open up your bandage and you can use , you know , several pieces of this , just keep going down the bandage and then you know clean it and get rid of that bit , okay , another clean bit okay , so you can adapt with whatever you 've got in your first aid box , yes , and you wo n't necessarily have scissors to hand so you 'll have to do whatever you 've got and the little Mediwipes are very useful for that , but do n't use one Mediwipe for seventy five grazes , okay , one Mediwipe for one wipe and then discard , okay ? |
| 20 | They try to ram down the throat of the public what the public quite rightly does not want . |
| 21 | Planted in horizontal rows across hillsides , the grass sinks deep roots and grows into a living retaining wall that traps soil washing down the slope . |
| 22 | Frankly I think from our colleagues in the conservative party should n't really be wasting our time here with these silly motions , erm what 's needed is if you 're gon na improve the housing situation in the city and in the country as a whole , we need to be allowed to use our capital receipts , all the ones we 've piled up , and we need to also inject money into the national economy to build new homes and incidentally to get the economy moving again and start bringing down the level of unemployment . |
| 23 | Do you know she had the sauce to pick up my socks and start smoothing down the eiderdown . ’ |
| 24 | they were all share drop down the sale |
| 25 | And one day we were coming along and these local ladies were coming towards us said oh we love going down the country roads and you know , oh look at all these poor refugees ! |
| 26 | I start breaking down the shape of the building into smaller ones as well . |
| 27 | I start breaking down the shape of the building into smaller ones as well . |
| 28 | Start running down the food in your freezer and fridge , so that they can be switched off and cleaned a couple of days before you move . |
| 29 | Shingle moved to the upper parts of the beach by either of these causes will pile up until the bank becomes so steep that stones start to roll down the beach , thus maintaining a steeper inshore section to most beaches . |
| 30 | Do not be aggressive or start laying down the law about your rights . |