Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] they down " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thought of all that money calmed them down , and they subsided . |
| 2 | You know , they might just get up a little way and then some bureaucracy knocks them down again and they 're back where they started . |
| 3 | I had to hang blankets over the windows at night , and in the morning they were so heavy with moisture that I had a proper job taking them down . |
| 4 | Only after ‘ tedious battering the top thereof with pick-axes ’ did they eventually undermine two of its six sides bringing them down and leaving the tower in the state in which it is today . |
| 5 | The Chelmsford pair battled through the earlier rounds despite their putting , which at crucial moments let them down , but were ultimately found out in a showpiece beset by cold winds and rain . |
| 6 | Women motorists have been urged to be vigilant after two women were raped after three men flagged them down in a country lane in Bedfordshire . |
| 7 | ‘ It just seemed too much of a gamble , ’ he explained , and in fact the 22-year-old left-hander turned them down once before temptation overcame him . |
| 8 | There were shutters inside each window and they too resisted all efforts to break them down . |
| 9 | The nimblest escapees hopped across the heads of the living and the dead , till a twisted ankle or a gasping angry hand brought them down . |
| 10 | The miners themselves probably found some sort of lodgings in the area but also spent most of their time living in small draughty shelters or " hutts " built near to their work places only severe weather shifting them down to the valley bottoms . |
| 11 | The social scientist knows that , as a picture of reality , this is a distortion , produced by someone whose vision is obscured by the immediate pressures weighing them down . |
| 12 | These figures are too high , but the only way to get them down permanently is to have the right structure of development in the economy : low inflation and stable exchange rates . |
| 13 | The Scuttlers also jealously guarded the territorial seclusion of their local beer-house — known as the ‘ blood-house ’ or ‘ blood-tub ’ — and they were such a force in Lancashire that the public authorities made various petitions to the Home Secretary for sterner repressive measures to put them down . |
| 14 | As though their own countryside let them down compared to that of Italy , the wealthy English had with them when travelling a Claude Glass through which they viewed the passing landscape from their carriages . |
| 15 | The old crow selected the largest one and dragged it to safety , out of the way of a pair of young birds chasing them down . |
| 16 | However , the Tories and Labour signalled that if either emerged as the largest single party they would put a Queen 's Speech to Parliament and dare the other parties to vote them down — possibly triggering another election as soon as October . |
| 17 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 18 | But United 's shortcomings … weakenesses are still all too obvious … a leaky defence let them down again just when it mattered most when the final whistle was minutes away as Redfearn hit the equaliser to make it one-all |