Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] down a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully he 'll have calmed down a bit ! |
| 2 | We 'll have to knuckle down a bit wo n't we se Rachel ? |
| 3 | She might have quietened down a bit by now , but you know what she 's like . ’ |
| 4 | and then we 'd 've gone down a different avenue |
| 5 | If someone could wave a magic wand , and I could change something , I think I 'd like to go down a couple of cup sizes . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd like to stay down a little while — hear more about your family , too . |
| 7 | Heather Bailey said her husband told her how he 'd cut cut down a parachute in hangar 8 at RAF Hullavington and lit it with a match . |
| 8 | If downpipes get blocked you could try pushing down a pole with a rag tied to the end . |
| 9 | I could n't have missed him , but I could have slowed down a bit . |
| 10 | ‘ We do n't have too many large office blocks in the North-East so I 'd have to knock down a number of housing schemes . |
| 11 | Erm and I may have slowed down a little today , I do n't know I should have timed it again . |
| 12 | Money may have disappeared down a black hole ( the budget was $40m according to Hurd , though industry sources put it nearer $50m ) , but it has all been spent on spectacle , not marquee names : Ed Harris ( from Jacknife ) and Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio star as an oil-rig foreman and the project engineer , both brought in to rescue a striken nuclear submarine . |
| 13 | ‘ None of us would want to drop down a division , so we would have to close down the shop and go back to our day jobs . ’ |
| 14 | Few meetings would dare to vote down a pay rise , but the threat of such a vote — and the awkward , embarrassing questions that might accompany it — would be a valuable restraint . |
| 15 | I would have slowed down a lot more than that . |
| 16 | Child 2 : ‘ Mummy says that in the old days daddy would have worked down a coal mine to make power for people , |
| 17 | We would have to cut down a lot of woodland , we would have to alter our environment substantially , and that is something that people have to bear in mind when advocating free-range . |
| 18 | Had those early Communists received their education in a contemporary society , understood themselves and others better , they would have laid down a rather different and more workable framework for the new society . |
| 19 | A number of changes will have occurred : it will have lost ten to fifteen per cent of its weight through loss of water ; the cell structures in the meat will have broken down ; the proteins will have changed into individual amino acids ( developing the flavour ) ; the muscle filaments — yes , the noble carcass is no more than a collection of muscles , bone and fat — will have broken down a bit and become more tender . |
| 20 | Which means this wind will have to die down a bit before they can return to the mainland . ’ |