Example sentences of "trying [to-vb] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believe the council , aware of its weak case in favour of the barrage , is trying to wear down the opposition by attrition . |
| 2 | He is now trying to pull down the house about the ears of Winchester 's Tories . |
| 3 | But I 'm trying to track down the man who brutally murdered Sandy , your sister . |
| 4 | He got an outside line dialled the law courts and asked to speak to Luciano Bartocci.While he waited he looked round his office with a deepening frown , trying to track down the detail which had been altered . |
| 5 | He and Jeff were out most of the time , trying to track down the speedboat , for which a popular local search had been mounted , and he was hardly ever at the villa . |
| 6 | Sure , there was a barman with a problem trying to bust down the door . |
| 7 | The Foreign Office is trying to play down the row but officials concede it could be some time before both sides talk again . |
| 8 | So this statement could be him trying to play down the incident … remember there were a few incidents where cuntona was reported to have stormed off to france . |
| 9 | The Benefits Agency is trying to play down the NAO findings , putting them down to administrative delays rather than errors . |
| 10 | Think of the devil , she told herself lightly , trying to play down the effect his nearness had on her . |
| 11 | The answer lay not in trying to play down the search for glory in war , but in channelling these energies towards the service of the king who represented the public good and honour of a nation or people . |
| 12 | Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir , himself Polish-born , had once commented that " Poles suck in anti-Semitism with their mothers ' milk " , and a main purpose of Walesa 's visit was to ease the strains between the two countries centring on enduring Polish anti-Semitism ; Walesa himself was still trying to live down the controversy caused by a statement during his 1990 presidential campaign that he was " clean " because his family had no Jewish blood . |
| 13 | Now a builder at Eastington near Stonehouse in Gloucestershire is trying to slow down the decline of valuable trees . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's got to be better than trying to abseil down the outside . |
| 15 | Now President de Klerk and the ANC leadership are trying to tone down the outcome of the talks in order not to appear to have pre-empted a decision before the others have had a chance to have their say . |
| 16 | Carlson remembered the passage in the Book which talked about the Form Manipulator trying to break down the power of love . |
| 17 | I mean they 've already made the mistake once of trying to lay down the law too heavily erm th this might seem , this seems to , to accommodate most I mean how erm if you 've got a cadre in a village I mean how supportive is he and how how is he going to implement er radical change ? |
| 18 | There was something about those little feet , Guy thought suddenly , trying to pin down the memory . |
| 19 | Levinson , in Pragmatics ( 1983 ) , spends some thirty pages trying to pin down the term " pragmatics " . |