Example sentences of "to [verb] down the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new designation will enable the Fisheries Service to overrule opposition to drawing down the reservoirs that is expected from the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bonneville Power Administration , who control both the dams and the electricity they produce . |
| 2 | Now I promise to devote myself to bringing down the costs of your mortgages because I believe that people should be able to own their own homes and to own them cheaply . ’ |
| 3 | Spymaster Stella Rimington will lead a 2,000-strong secret army dedicated to hunting down the terrorists . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But I looked forward to going down the mine . |
| 5 | An added incentive to tracking down the railways is that they are invariably in rural France , away from the speeding motorway traffic . |
| 6 | Gysin , who exhibited with the Surrealists at the tender age of 19 , dedicated his life to breaking down the barriers between painting and writing . |
| 7 | Punishment ranges from denying interviewers access to cabinet ministers to holding down the BBC 's licence fee , appointing suitable people to control both BBC and commercial broadcasting , and stimulating the public to accuse the broadcasters of bias . |
| 8 | He comes , and after a heated discussion he commits himself to closing down the factory by 1992 . |
| 9 | Medical researchers believe they could be close to pinning down the cause of hereditary asthma . |
| 10 | It is unfortunate that Mrs Gardner 's thoroughness did not extend to laying down the law about insurance . |