Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downing Street tried to dampen down the story , saying the press officer had not mentioned anything about ‘ whingers ’ . |
| 2 | Bloomsbury House tried to dampen down the enthusiasm for Lyons — the uniforms were very expensive to provide — but many ended up working there . |
| 3 | Those closest to Camilla yesterday tried to play down the scandal . |
| 4 | We tried to play down the tackiness , but it did n't work . |
| 5 | At the CPSU congress currently in session Gorbachev tried to play down the significance of the strikes , claiming that the " general strike " urged by independent miner 's leaders had not materialized . |
| 6 | Delaney tried to play down the fear in his voice — fear for her . |
| 7 | Strikingly , MITI frequently tried to slow down the rate of accumulation to avoid overcapacity , a problem exacerbated by the increasing size of new plants which reduced the number to be built each year . |
| 8 | When his father , frustrated after years as a POW , returned , he tried to lay down the law . |
| 9 | The Catholic Church had made a bad mistake with Galileo when it tried to lay down the law on a question of science , declaring that the sun went round the earth . |
| 10 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 11 | Vandals tried to burn down the school in Milton Keynes at the weekend . |
| 12 | Is n't it true that someone tried to burn down the barn your Sparrowgrass was stabled in a month ago ? |
| 13 | The 26 Tory rebels who tried to bring down the government |