Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] down some [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some reason it seemed to kick down some of the barrier of strangeness between them . |
| 2 | Laughter seemed to break down some of the barrier of embarrassment that had built up between them and when Carrie lit two candles she handed one to Seb and said , ‘ Good night , Seb . |
| 3 | I DID N'T sleep too well on the night before our last Inter-Continental Cup match against Cuba in Poznan — I woke up at six o'clock in the morning thinking about the future of the Irish hockey team and began to put down some of my ideas on paper . |
| 4 | But , as he always found room in his life for north Oxfordshire and his family , he also enjoyed setting down some of his local preoccupations and irritations . |
| 5 | But it did break down some of the unbearable tension that had been building . |