Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [noun] [to-vb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | He readily granted licences for enfeoffment to uses , and although Chancery officials made some effort to track down unlicensed or fraudulent uses , such cases ‘ form a very small minority of all those tenants in chief who had conveyed land to uses ’ . |
| 2 | It was tedious , but no longer alarming , and as she contrived most mornings to slip down to the shore for gulps of sea air , though she was careful now never to go beyond the rocks around the headland , she did not chafe at the confinement as once she had . |
| 3 | Lio ! rt chose that moment to flail down with his free hand , and a fistful of rings stabbed into the wizard 's fingers . |
| 4 | Despite a prolonged period of rest , the inflammation took many weeks to settle down — even with a steroid injection . |
| 5 | The Regional Health Authority voted this afternoon to shut down the specialist chest and orthopaedic hospital . |
| 6 | The united front put up by the other EC leaders was made possible by the West German Chancellor , Dr Helmut Kohl , who abandoned any attempt to slow down the decision on an inter-governmental conference . |