Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] down a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His plane seemed to swoop down a straight slope until an abrupt crackle signalled the moment to pull out . |
| 2 | They 'd gone down a narrow alleyway — up North they 're called ‘ ginnels ’ but do n't ask me why ; I just observe , I do n't translate — which led to another alley at right-angles . |
| 3 | I did hold down a responsible job in my last post , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Gone are the days when you had to slide down a muddy bank and hold an old mercury one at arms length . |
| 5 | About six months after the dinner party she realised that , for the first time in her life , she had turned down a decent journalistic commission in order to start work for a crazy old lady off Ladbroke Grove , whose garden specialised in old roses , and who was insistent about sterilising soil before new plantings . |
| 6 | Firemen had to damp down a burning car which caught fire early yesterday morning on the A1(M) . |
| 7 | It was a bad moment and I had to put down a swift impulse to rush to the side and throw myself over . |
| 8 | A true story — albeit hard to believe — was that , fearing the devaluation of the currency , he had melted down a considerable quantity of silver coin and buried the ingots in the grounds of the Park . |
| 9 | Steele was continually involved , beginning with a penalty goal in the opening seconds after Leicester had pulled down a driving maul . |
| 10 | But our judge might be able to guarantee this by making plain that he intends the new rule to govern all future cases , and that the exception for Elmer was made possible only by the fact that no judge had laid down a similar rule before Elmer committed his crime . |
| 11 | He told Taylor , who appeared in the dock wearing a dark suit with a small teddy bear mascot on the breast pocket , that Parliament had laid down a maximum sentence of 10 years for an appropriate case and to deter those who took the law into their own hands . |
| 12 | Once Malik had cut down a small tree , dragged it across the grass , and cut it up in the back garden , with the help of two large boys in the third year . |
| 13 | However , by simply being Mr Decent , ie by not declaring a desire to eliminate his opponents , or referring to expressions of social concern as ‘ drooling and drivelling ’ and people who care as ‘ moaning minnies ’ , John Major had put down a slender but steady plank for enough people to cross from a public culture of concern and responsibility to a private preference for Conservative government . |
| 14 | The luthier , Tony Rockett attempted to track down a new steel rod for my bass , only to discover that nobody in this country supplies Warwick spares . |