Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should cut down on red meat , always choose lean cuts and eat more white meats , such as chicken and turkey . |
| 2 | The intention here is that they should operate down to individual budget holders . |
| 3 | Tomorrow she really must settle down to serious work on her novel ; time was slipping past , her deadline was approaching and if she did n't get on with it she 'd have Joe making agitated phone calls and coming down to visit . |
| 4 | Mulroney accepted that the referendum result had consigned the Charlottetown agreement to " history " , but rejected suggestions that , in the face of such a personal reverse , he might step down as Prime Minister . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps some of us might come down in great secrecy to visit you . ’ |
| 6 | From the window of his room on the top floor of the tenement building , Joe could see down into old Mr Webb 's office at the rear of the shop , and the outline of scores of books were clearly visible poled up against the filthy windows . |
| 7 | Whenever I felt low , you 'd go down with ear-ache or you 'd trip over the back step and gash your knee . |
| 8 | We could settle down to real life ; they were out to get us , and we were out to stop them . |
| 9 | Until recently , it was considered safe and environmentally acceptable to dump household waste in the ground where , left to decay , it would break down into harmless by-products and cause no problems . |
| 10 | Bombs and poison gas would rain down on undefended cities . |
| 11 | And the dying welfare state brought its own newspeak as well : governments ' failure to link child benefit , unemployment pay and so on to the cost of living was the fight against inflation ; putting children on half-time schooling was referred to as giving parents a free hand ; closing hospitals and dumping dying patients on the doorsteps of unwarned and distant relatives was community care ; and a new political movement that saw remedies to the whole predicament , if only the nation 's women would buckle down to traditional role and biological destiny , was known quite simply as FAMILY . |
| 12 | This deal with Channel Ten will ensure that Campese continues playing Test rugby despite his statements earlier this year that he would step down from international rugby and establish a permanent business base in Italy . |
| 13 | Tonight I shall lie down in clean sheets and blankets . |
| 14 | CANADIAN Prime Minister Brian Mulroney resigned as Conservative Party leader yesterday and will step down as prime minister when his successor is picked in June to lead the party into autumn elections . |
| 15 | By making money follow the pupil , LMS will encourage good schools and penalise bad ones ; and by delegating budgets to individual heads , it will cut down on time-wasting bureaucracy . |
| 16 | I will feed them in good pasture and their grazing ground will be on the mountain heights of Israel , there they will lie down in good grazing ground , and they will feed in rich pastures on the mountains of Israel . |
| 17 | Ideally it should be laid in a fine carpet and not in higgledy-piggledy lumps that bream can break down to easy mouthfuls . |
| 18 | the mental processes involved in object recognition ; 2 how object recognition and naming develops in children ; and 3. how it can break down in certain cases of brain damage . |
| 19 | There have been many memorable moments : watching a gyr falcon trying to out-manoeuvre puffins in flight off the headland of Tjörnes ; finding purple sandpipers , dunlin , redshank and Arctic terns all breeding together near Núpscatla ; the spectacular east coast road which in places cuts across forty-five degree mountain slopes where you can look down on vast flocks of moulting eider drakes on the sea below . |
| 20 | Here Is a watercolourist who in " Walton , early morning " can approach the exquisite gentleness of Chinese work and then , in " Pennine landscape " can set down with masterful boldness the rugged majesty of moor and sky . |