Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] down [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'm going to pull down a whole pile of these things and make a nest out of them so we 'll be warm and cosy until we 're rescued from each other . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Toubon has denied the rumour which circulated in Paris after the March General Election that he was going to shut down the trouble-torn Bastille Opera to carry out a complete technical and financial inventory . |
| 3 | On the whole , the champions of the literal approach have been the party attempting to strike down a particular clause whilst the object and intent approach tends to favour parties who are attempting to uphold the restraint . |
| 4 | After years of frustrated attempts to regain control of the site , Hindu extremists brought the issue to an explosive head this year by threatening to tear down the crumbling mosque and build a temple devoted to Lord Rama . |
| 5 | having to cut down a little bit but I enjoy my look at Dartmoor when I get out there and I 'm busy with the church and |
| 6 | One of the players whose future is assured is 18-year-old Jamie Pollock , who is set to return to the side tonight after struggling to hold down a regular place . |
| 7 | The child is probably trying to write down a suitable looking word , and has n't said to himself the actual word he has written down . |
| 8 | Troops trying to put down the ethnic conflict in South Ossetia ( in which Dzhava was one of the principal centres ) were transferred to relief operations . |
| 9 | Delaney felt dizzy , trying to fight down the rising imagination that would produce symptoms out of nothing . |
| 10 | ‘ And Svend ? ’ she asked , trying to fight down the growing awareness of Rune 's hard body so close to her own , the feel of his hand against her waist , the slight rubbing of their thighs as he measured his pace to match her own . |
| 11 | ‘ Mick was very much trying to live down the pretty-boy guitarist bit and to be taken seriously as a blues player . |
| 12 | However , this cyclostyled news-sheet was generally moderate in tone ; in fact , it was often used by Nyerere when trying to cool down the more militant of his followers . |
| 13 | But having opened up the debate , most critics joined Pearce in immediately trying to close down the political questions raised . |
| 14 | That is , if one were to attempt to visualize the three personae involved in terms of a novel or play one would need pages to describe the kinds of interchange that Shakespeare renders in a quatrain : ‘ Trice threefold ’ , too , are the number of lines taken up by editors trying to pin down the multiple shifts of identity which take place in these four lines . |