Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tragically , these trees are being torn down from the rapidly diminishing rainforests — and are not being replanted . |
| 2 | Clive expressed his distrust and fear of being let down by a very detached attitude in all his relationships . |
| 3 | The cause was eventually tracked down to a previously unknown bacterium , given the name Legionella pneumophila . |
| 4 | Another part of the exhibition is a caseful of just such gifts , presumably dusted down from a very full royal attic : a Maori figure with crossed eyes , a table with cowrie shells hanging from it as from an Australian hat , a fetching Japanese lacquer picnic set and a sinister raffia figure wearing a balaclava . |
| 5 | I had no idea what it was , but it certainly tasted good , all being washed down with a very good red wine . |
| 6 | The contract was quickly sold down to a more sustainable 2600 level . |
| 7 | The contemporary academic debate among economists had become bogged down in a rather arid byway of marginal costing and subsidies , and provided little useful guidance on the substantive issues of the day . |
| 8 | Other , more local , axes in , for example , Northumberland , have also been suggested , and can be brought down to a very local level . |
| 9 | The limb is no exception , which means that the basic pattern of the limb is laid down on a very small scale . |
| 10 | Thomist theology and philosophy were laid down in a rather ossified form as the normative Catholic intellectual system , drawn from the Middle Ages and therefore free of any taint of modern influence . |
| 11 | The basis of this understanding of marriage is laid down in the very first book of the Bible : ‘ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife , and they become one . ’ |
| 12 | After the frantic design years of the early 1980s board design has now settled down to a fairly stable format and it is only construction techniques that are still changing slightly . |
| 13 | Widespread evidence indicated that it had burnt down in the later second century . |
| 14 | A brisk antipodean , she moved with speed and efficiency , despite being weighed down by the most magnificent chest Amiss could remember ever seeing in real life . |
| 15 | As it is , he has gone down as a highly skilled bowler who , because he lacked the flamboyance of some of his colleagues , attracted less attention than many of them ; but who consistently , almost stealthily , got on with the job of collecting three or four wickets in innings after innings after innings . |
| 16 | That tour has , of course , gone down as the most exciting series of the century . |
| 17 | It was flung open , and she side-stepped hastily , only just avoiding being knocked down by a very annoyed Roman . |
| 18 | Trimmed down from a much nastier pilot to the duelling clowns schtick , Minder became even more popular than the true grit series like Out and Fox it originally sought to follow . |
| 19 | Again , he is taken down by a very firm snatch of the lead . |
| 20 | It 's success could be put down to the hard sell . |
| 21 | They can be blotted down for an even more subtle finish , if you prefer , then topped with a dewy lipgloss . |
| 22 | Practice needs to be as strong as possible , not levelled down to a lowest common denominator . |