Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now is not the time to rip down the wallpaper or tear down walls . ’ |
| 2 | They have cleared their shelves of anything that could offend the public or bring down the wrath of the tabloids . |
| 3 | Altering weather conditions can accelerate or slow down dredging programmes , and the engineer for a direct works section must also keep his construction plant and men employed in order to make them viable . |
| 4 | Ginguene noted that in the period when Baroque style was current , and even after , Opéra soloists sang pretty freely for contexts , he specifies ‘ airs , monologues , duos , etc. ’ 'Singers thought they had the right to hurry or slow down , according to what the words seemed to demand or , more often , according to whim' The ‘ orchestra ’ had to accompany ‘ sometimes note for note , these uneven , shaky lines ’ . |
| 5 | do n't say that a level crossing or where the road narrows , on approached any type of pedestrian crossing or where it would involve driving over an area marked with diagonal stripes to or che chevrons , do not overtake when you do so would force another vehicle to swerve or slow down , if in doubt do not overtake so where 'd you not overtake ? |
| 6 | West German attention remained centred on the affairs of Central Europe — nor had the Germans either completely liberated themselves from or lived down their own past . |
| 7 | Then lie or sit down on the nearest piece of furniture , try to keep warm and wait calmly for help to arrive . |
| 8 | The advice we were both given before we started our long stint was : " Do n't take alcohol or sit down . |
| 9 | He was pestering people at the bar , trying to butt into their conversations or sit down at their tables and behaving — as far as people who did not know he was ill were concerned — like an archetypal northern wally . |
| 10 | Or sit down , anyway . |
| 11 | Whether such complex formal procedures could be incorporated into a graduated test scheme seems doubtful ; the few existing schemes in Britain make use of less formal teacher judgement , within guidelines from the central development team , or laid down criterion scores in tests . |
| 12 | Add a border or binding down the leading and bottom edges of curtains for a real interior designer touch . |
| 13 | But for the interested amateur the travel companies offer trips which include opportunities to follow the grey whales of the San Ignacio Lagoon , view tigers in India , search for orchids and birds of paradise in Papua New Guinea , or track down the gorillas in the Mountains of the Moon . |
| 14 | However , the use of pig fat in the enfleurage process will be off-putting to the vegetarian who may have to forgo the pleasures of jasmine and tuberose or track down a supplier of the even more elusive vegetable oil absolutes . |
| 15 | Buildings , black as anthracite , were receding or telescoping down , rumbling as they moved , clearing a field for battle . |
| 16 | When lava like this comes to rest or slows down , the ‘ skin ’ piles up against itself , buckling up into a closely-spaced series of pleats . |
| 17 | All are overloaded or broken down . |
| 18 | Protein skimmers are a must for any butterfly or angelfish tank , as these species are sensitive to any organics left in the water that can not be filtered out or broken down by bacterial activity . |
| 19 | Because BT was not restructured or broken down into more manageable units which might compete with one another ( the US solution to their phone giant AT & t ) , competition between giant BT and tiny Mercury is unlikely to constrain BT much . |
| 20 | All food consists of cellular construction and , in this gentle steam , this is not attacked or broken down . |
| 21 | Some tanned the leather in season , or boiled down hoof and horn in the great vats that stood inside the ramshackle building of the tannery itself . |
| 22 | ‘ He could have been eaten or run over or trodden on or blown away or fallen down a hole or trapped , ’ said Grimma . |
| 23 | you can take a donkey ride up into the mountains in the morning , before spending the afternoon on a jet ski or paragliding down the beach . |
| 24 | Then again they would just stand there , or squat down in the shade of a sand hill , their eyes fixed on the two endless parallels , following them out until they joined and lost themselves in the bush . |
| 25 | Only the white-chinned petrel makes an occasional sortie past or drops down in the tussac . |
| 26 | Faced with the prospect of watching a fat geordie sweating himself to death on a sofa or driving down the A1 to Elland Road I chose the latter and watched the Swindon game . |
| 27 | Or tearing down part of the prison ? |
| 28 | Up to now I have suggested some general strategies for preempting or cooling down quarrels and temper outbursts . |
| 29 | Meanwhile it 's hotting up , or cooling down , on stage . |
| 30 | The weights are custom-made or ground down Roman coins ; one or two appear to be actual Byzantine weights , or imitations , indicating the extent of exchange networks in the later sixth and seventh centuries in Europe . |