Example sentences of "could [verb] down the " in BNC.

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1 AIDS patients are being given a new vaccine which could slow down the effects of the disease .
2 A new drug which could slow down the onset of Aids in people infected with the HIV virus is undergoing trials in America .
3 I suspect part of the reason behind the council buying the ground in 1983 ? was so they could knock down the old rugby league stadium .
4 After a few months he could strip down the simpler engines , service and reassemble them .
5 The Duke did all he could to track down the miscreants , using his great wealth to bribe informers .
6 But they were some well on , lo and behold , could open the door er two or three minutes late and c er call the er number , Yes sir , er as they entered the class and they would get their mark , this being I think you got a red mark if you were late , t to stand out so that an inspector who came down periodically could look down the register and there was the record of who was early and who was late by the colour of the ink-pens , I think .
7 From the front attic window we could see down the rue de Fleuve to the river .
8 I leaned further over until I could see down the line of houses .
9 There is a new self-confidence in unionism , since its talks representatives showed they could face down the opposition , and he is determined to build upon it .
10 The RAC Rally 's 16,000 miles of rutted and gravel tracks are far removed from McGuigan 's deafening fight nights in the mid-1980s , when he was applauded as the only man who could walk down the Falls and Shankhill Roads and be welcomed in both .
11 ‘ Four years ' work and $12 million could go down the tubes , ’ said Conner .
12 ‘ We could go down the coast from Losan , ’ Tulagai said .
13 Suppose we could go down the Rainbow and have a look at that microwave .
14 well then , then you could really , would be , I 'll always start on , you could go down the police station and have a word with them , see what they think , and they 'll probably put you in touch with somebody , cos they know everything they know what
15 Charles had done all he could to slow down the retreat , issuing orders that ‘ not so much as a cannonball ’ was to be left behind — an instruction literally , and profitably , followed by the Glengarry clan who , when the carts transporting ammunition up Shap Fell , between Kendal and Penrith , broke down , carried it up in their plaids , at sixpence [ 2. 5p ] per cannonball .
16 According to classical mechanics , in theory you could write down the position and momentum of every single particle in the universe ; you could therefore work out how everything is going backwards and forwards in time , obviously by highly complicated equations , but in theory , everything 's predicted so everything 's totally determined from beginning to end ; but quantum mechanics says that you can never record the momentum and position of everything identically because of the Uncertainty Principle .
17 So composite fifteen , energy policy to be moved by Southern region , Midlands region to second and again colleagues if supporting speakers could come down the , the front I 'd be very much obliged .
18 Yet , while it could play down the challenge of British fascism it could not ignore the threat of European fascism .
19 A Durham miner 's daughter ‘ could shout down the passage and me grandma would soon know if there was anything the matter with us . ’
20 I managed to wriggle my hands out of the tape so I could pull down the gag , poke my head out of the sack and breathe more freely .
21 But fitzAlan spoke again before she could pin down the feeling .
22 I could n't wait to finish at the studio that day so I could slip down the record shop to pick up a copy , and several months later I still have n't stopped playing it .
23 ‘ There was a lot to do with telephones , ’ says Ian , ‘ like you could turn down the stereo as you picked up the phone ! ’
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