Example sentences of "to [adj] [verb] down " in BNC.

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1 Not the miserable thirty four percent spent at the moment , all due to Labour slowing down the regeneration of our district by delaying financial support .
2 any motor vehicle waiting to set down or pick up passengers in accordance with regulations made or directions given by the chief officer or police in regard to such setting down or picking up ;
3 Going in that room to all sit down ?
4 L 24 , p. 1 ) were adopted , all the member states applied to registration similar nationality requirements to those laid down in the Act of 1988 .
5 Mr Kinnock reminded her that the non-TUC Association of Professional Ambulance Personnel , ‘ the kind of organisation she likes ’ , had by five to one turned down her pay offer .
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