Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] down [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The orchestration of Cabinet ministers in radio and TV interviews at the weekend seemed designed to damp down growing unrest among Conservative back-benchers about the quality of leadership . |
| 2 | I do n't think it is , I think , no , I think you 've got to come down another pattern . |
| 3 | " He also buys and sells antiques for a living and he has promised to come down next week and have a proper look and then perhaps take a few things back to London to some man he knows who is an expert on Oriental China and objets d'art . " |
| 4 | Spokesmen for the Chamorro government stressed that a small group of officers had acted on their own authority to ship the missiles , which included Sam-7s and Sam-14s and which had been used to shoot down Salvadorean army aircraft on Nov. 23 and Dec. 4 . |
| 5 | Such weaponry may have been designed principally for warfare and combat , yet the existence of wild animal bones on settlements , especially deer , points to hunting being a means of supplementing the diet ; yet what was used to bring down such game ? |
| 6 | Berlusconi , unabashed by his own creation of what amounts to a duopoly , bangs the drum of the free market against RAI , claiming that the licence payers ' money is being squandered to break down unwanted competition . |
| 7 | Consequently , when these innovative ideas were taken up nationally and the Residential Precinct Regulation was adopted in the traffic legislation of the Netherlands in September 1976 , great care was taken to set down minimum design requirements and special rules for conduct within a Woonerf . |
| 8 | THE Government was forced to climb down last night in the face of outrage at the deportation of Yugoslav refugees . |
| 9 | The slow but steady rise in France 's defence spending has begun to turn down this year . |
| 10 | Just less than half the money created went down that drain . |
| 11 | Thus , the energy required to break down one mole of the lattice into isolated gaseousions is equal to the reverse of the energy change which accompanies the formation of one mole of the lattice from its gaseous ions . |