Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith 's early demise opened the door for the much-anticipated return of David Gower , who had flown down for the Wimbledon men 's final in something other than a Tiger Moth the day before . |
| 2 | Southern Command have been whittled down by the Carter- |
| 3 | ‘ No , I think it would have been easier just to take his word for it that I 'd boobed , fallen down on the job . |
| 4 | People are always being Healed down at the church . |
| 5 | Ahead there was space , but her foot was pressed down to the floor and the car would n't go any faster . |
| 6 | When the earth had been finally pressed down round the tree roots , Peter Dawson had put his arm round his wife 's tiny waist and they had surveyed their handiwork with obvious satisfaction . |
| 7 | The barbarian had vaulted down into the heather and had drawn the black sword , Kring . |
| 8 | The fat man over to his right had leaned down to the floor . |
| 9 | A possible framework for comprehensive assessment is offered through the concepts of quality of life and risk : two related , multidimensional concepts which can be translated into statements of purpose and scope as well as broken down into the factors which constitute quality of life and risk . |
| 10 | Reconsider this planned essay with the introduction broken down into the parts as suggested . |
| 11 | From this viewpoint cultural rules are not given determinants of individual action but are continually built up and broken down as the result of individual choices and decisions . |
| 12 | As an overall thing we probably take about a hundred and fifty phone calls every day from policy holders , and I suppose out of that you I suppose you people that have n't erm have broken down at the side of the road will ring up or something . |
| 13 | Production day supervisor Bob Hodson illustrated the point : ‘ ICI phoned earlier to say the tanker with the morning delivery of phenol had broken down on the motorway and would n't be here until four o'clock . |
| 14 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 15 | broken down since the paper article , had n't had a sole come since that newspaper article . |
| 16 | In hospitals the system has broken down under the pressure of numbers and new teaching methods are only slowly being found , but teaching in general practice has remained close to the tradition in which older generations of doctors learnt their skills . |
| 17 | Are these distinctions being broken down under the impact of wider social changes ? |
| 18 | In bald form , Middlemas argues that around the time of the First World War the nineteenth-century British political system had broken down under the weight of the antagonism and conflicts in industrial society . |
| 19 | A third round of preliminary talks in Rome between the TPLF and the Ethiopian government on March 20-29 had broken down over the TPLF 's insistence that " substantive talks " should involve a joint delegation of the TPLF and its ally , the Ethiopian People 's Democratic Movement ( EPDM ) . |
| 20 | Cabinet negotiations had broken down over the balance of power in the government , with the " small coalition " demanding greater control over the economy than the PSL was prepared to concede . |
| 21 | According to Jensen , the most effective way of disposing of the chemicals is to spray them over the land according to the manufacturer 's directions , allowing them to be broken down by the sun and weather . |
| 22 | In others , such as the strongyloids , it is large , and opens into a buccal capsule , which may contain teeth ; such parasites , when feeding , draw a plug of mucosa into the buccal capsule ( Fig.3 ) , where it is broken down by the action of enzymes which are secreted into the capsule from adjacent glands . |
| 23 | Nature has , of course , tremendous resilience in coping with abuse ; even great quantities of waste can be broken down by the bacteria in the water . |
| 24 | Such a system , based on social class and the old school tie , had never become quite so entrenched across the Atlantic in the first place , and had largely broken down by the end of the 1950s . |
| 25 | Thus , in course of time , the artificiality of feudal organization was more and more broken down by the use of money , until in twelfth-century England , feudal service was commonly replaced by the payment of a tax , scutage , ‘ shield-money ’ . |
| 26 | The merlin population has yet to recover , because they are still affected by levels of PCBs , which are not easily broken down by the environment and are still leaking from industrial sites . |
| 27 | Alcohol is broken down by the chemicals called enzymes in the liver through which blood circulates once every four minutes . |
| 28 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 29 | But a gate was broken down in the frustration and many spectators , mostly from Cardiff , got in without paying . |
| 30 | Raw muck and slurry can burn young plants and even slow down plant growth whilst it is being broken down in the soil . |