Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 2 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
| 3 | It is the variance , not the midspread , which is broken down into a fitted ( ‘ explained ’ ) and residual ( ‘ unexplained ’ ) component . |
| 4 | Waste material in the ubiquitous black plastic bags brews up and is broken down by a common bacterium , Clostridium botulinum , which produces a very potent toxin . |
| 5 | The idea boiled down to a single word , the most potent in the language . |
| 6 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 7 | And Clough has also cracked down on a similar plea from right back Brian Laws . |
| 8 | Some animals have this honed down to a fine art . |
| 9 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 10 | She was lifted bodily aboard by two sailors and carried down to a panelled cabin where she and Maria Candida were to live during the voyage ; and when she had been helped out of her clothes and into simpler garments that were more suited to life on board ship , she insisted upon going on deck to watch from the aftercastle as the mariners sang at the capstan and the anchors were weighed . |
| 11 | The once-scarlet , once-thick carpet in the foyer had been trodden down to a greasy thinness the exact shade of hard , encrusted blood . |
| 12 | City came under some pressure from Tring , but the home side never looked down to a sub front . |
| 13 | You had me pegged down as a full-time thief . ’ |
| 14 | But the refuges of a mindless artistry which represents what is human as opposed to the social mechanism are being relentlessly hunted down by a schematic reason which compels everything to prove its significance and effect . |
| 15 | ‘ To be honest , no really well-founded scheme has ever been turned down on a financial basis . |
| 16 | well either two or four times er turned down on a long handle for pouring things er out of the , I mean like , when I used |
| 17 | MOTORIST Steve Hopwood was turned down for a disabled parking pass — even though he has only one arm and one leg . |
| 18 | Powerful amplifiers can be turned down for a small hall , but a weak amplifier has no potential for increased volume before it starts distorting the sound . |
| 19 | PLANS to convert a house in Palace Avenue , Rhyl , into separate flats have been turned down by a Welsh Office inspector . |
| 20 | Had he not been turned down by a local industrial company , things might have been different . |
| 21 | Indeed a mill design developed during the 1950s was turned down by a local planning enquiry : one of the aims of the CEGB 's current wind programme is to gain some feedback on public attitudes to modern designs . |
| 22 | A NATIONAL treasure has been tracked down to a German museum after it was allegedly stolen by a man using a metal detector . |
| 23 | Last month the European Socialist group , the largest in the European Parliament , threatened to sack the entire commission because the charter had been watered down in a vain attempt to secure Mrs Thatcher 's backing for it at the Strasbourg summit . |
| 24 | In pre-summit manoeuvres , European trade union leaders also warned of the ‘ danger of social strife ’ if the 1992 market arrived without proper social protection for workers and criticised France for allowing the Charter to be watered down in a doomed effort to win Mrs Thatcher 's support . |
| 25 | The Iraqi jet was shot down inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone after it turned to challenge an American F-16 pilot . |
| 26 | Say you got me to Ireland and dropped me off , then got shot down by a British night-fighter off the French coast on your way back . |
| 27 | It 's the time when the final pellets of vanity accumulate into a cyst , when the self starts up its last pathetic murmur of ‘ Remember me , remember me … ‘ ; it 's the time when the autobiographies get written , the last boasts are made , and the memories which no one else 's brain still holds are written down with a false idea of value . |
| 28 | The British constitution is not written down in a single legal document which enjoys a special political status above ordinary law . |
| 29 | Bull O'Malley 's heavy eyebrows were drawn down in a confused frown . |
| 30 | The fire had died down to a dull glow and Patrick was just beginning to doze off when there was a soft knock on the door , and it opened to admit Jane , the younger of the two maids , carrying a large tea tray . |