Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Southern Command have been whittled down by the Carter- |
| 2 | ‘ No , I think it would have been easier just to take his word for it that I 'd boobed , fallen down on the job . |
| 3 | People are always being Healed down at the church . |
| 4 | Ahead there was space , but her foot was pressed down to the floor and the car would n't go any faster . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The barbarian had vaulted down into the heather and had drawn the black sword , Kring . |
| 7 | The fat man over to his right had leaned down to the floor . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | broken down since the paper article , had n't had a sole come since that newspaper article . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Are these distinctions being broken down under the impact of wider social changes ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But a gate was broken down in the frustration and many spectators , mostly from Cardiff , got in without paying . |
| 23 | Raw muck and slurry can burn young plants and even slow down plant growth whilst it is being broken down in the soil . |
| 24 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 25 | How detritus and fish excreta are broken down in the filter |
| 26 | First , the esters procaine and centrophenoxine are immediately broken down in the body to release their DEAE and DMAE , which are the active portions of the molecules . |
| 27 | tha that 's because the iron is er being broken down in the body . |
| 28 | So often the right tool for the job is hanging in the tool shed at home when you are helping a friend in his house , or have broken down in the car away from home . |
| 29 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |
| 30 | ‘ As the industry matures , I believe airlines will be stripped down to the core business of flying people and cargo from place to place . |