Example sentences of "try [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 2 | She tried lying down on the bare mattress , but the whole place felt cold and close . |
| 3 | Two years ago he brought in a Commons Bill ( which , sadly , failed ) to try to clamp down on the boy racers . |
| 4 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 5 | In case you think I am exaggerating I will try to put down on the page the conversation we held this morning , he in his warm office with his eighteenth century paperweight and leggy shit of a secretary and I in a dirty glass-doored box that might have been entered in an exhibition of unusual refrigerators . |
| 6 | So the more frozen in horror a human being is , the more likely the cat is to leap up and try to settle down on the static lap . |
| 7 | He had to wait until nine o'clock to telephone the garage , and he had been told they had no time that morning and would try to get down in the afternoon . |
| 8 | Instead , try cutting down on the number of exercises , increasing the weight and making sure that you perform 3 sets of at least 8 reps . |
| 9 | That they did not do and now the leader of the council said well they 're trying to get down to the standard spending assessment at last , he could have done that a long time ago , you have had nothing but excess expenditure proposals on behalf of this city for many , many years . |
| 10 | I said for heaven sake girls , not only trying to cut down on the expensive just because obviously trying to start up on their own . |