Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laverne points down the bank on the other side of the road . |
| 2 | Returning to the kitchen , Robyn turns down the thermostat of the central heating and checks that the back door of the house is locked and bolted . |
| 3 | In one letter to Susanna Highmore , he turns down the offer of a sonnet to be prefixed to Leapor 's second volume : |
| 4 | Everyone 's perpetual concern to safeguard himself against having to take legal responsibility necessitates a fearful expenditure of effort , paper , ink , and time , slows down the transaction of business , removes from the provincial and district agencies all feelings of independence , and teaches them to act surreptitiously if at all . |
| 5 | An additional plus for the Anatom is its lining , which has in-built Antibac , an antibacterial system which slows down the growth of bacteria on the skin , an unusual but welcome concept in shoe technology . |
| 6 | You should remember that a fridge does n't kill bacteria , only slows down the rate at which they multiply . |
| 7 | It automatically slows down the rate of eating for you ! |
| 8 | This view actually parallels modern scientific thinking , which presumes that the universe is evolving towards final destruction when the inevitable pull of gravity slows down the rate of expansion . |
| 9 | A high and uncertain rate of inflation is disturbing because it reduces the efficiency of the market economy and slows down the process of economic growth . |
| 10 | If the red ball goes down the edge of the white ball ? |
| 11 | While the deal goes down the rest of them wait next door . |
| 12 | By politicizing his text in this way Sukenick runs the risk of linking authorial production with political manipulation , but he regularly plays down the privilege of composition by including himself as a minor character within his narratives . |
| 13 | The absence of the category of consciousness inevitably plays down the role of individual subjects and thus of individual agency and resistance as a result of specific acts of will . |
| 14 | Parents and teachers claim Rainbow deliberately plays down the risk of contracting Aids from homosexual relationships by suggesting there is nothing frightening about the gay lifestyle . |
| 15 | There is also evidence that TV , as a technology which works by electronic scanning , effectively shuts down the functioning of those parts of the brain that reason and think actively and logically — the skills that have been associated with the left hemisphere of the brain . |
| 16 | Power trickles down the edifice with the effect that those who actually deliver the service , teachers and lecturers , are the least powerful in terms of determining what the service is about , how it performs , how it should develop . |
| 17 | If he knocks down the wicket with his own leg , he is out . |
| 18 | Play them in order and make sure that your thumb , which holds down the root of the G chords , also deadens the A string … |
| 19 | With very good will the adviser writes down the address of the local family counselling services . |
| 20 | In either case the designer writes down the sequence of actions which must be taken coupled with informational indications of what should be happening . |
| 21 | PART of a Courtaulds business in France — supplying packaging materials for fresh fruit and vegetables — starts off the year under new ownership . |
| 22 | Marcellus starts off the film as a drunk , a womaniser , a detached outsider amid the ( very decorous ) antics of Ancient corrupt Rome — but alas he is converted . |
| 23 | This tension is then ‘ satisfyingly ’ released by the resolution from the Dominant chord to the tonic chord which usually starts off the chorus of the song . |
| 24 | The agent usually starts off the party with a few games , to help people get to know each other . |
| 25 | Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket application programming interface and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system . |
| 26 | Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket API and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system . |
| 27 | So I suggest the secretary rings up the secretary of Fenners do n't say you 're listed in newspapers cos industrial people do n't like that but have a word with Fenners and they 'll tell you what 's gone on . |
| 28 | Thus if a defective toaster catches fire damaging the house and contents , one adds up the value of the damage done ( but not including either the toaster itself or any property used mainly for business purposes , e.g. a word processor ) . |
| 29 | Maximum impact through minimum statement is what Armani is all about — and the maestro himself lives out the philosophy in his personal life . |
| 30 | For example magnesium chloride holds water within its crystal lattice and if you dry it that water comes out , but as it comes out it also strips out the chlorine as hydrogen chloride gas for example . |