Example sentences of "[that] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is a start that plays down the complications of learning about gender and discrimination outside the family , in order to produce a viable psychological theory . |
| 2 | For 50 years the Hops Marketing Board was a governmentregulated body that laid down the price of hops and how many each grower should produce on an annual basis . |
| 3 | And even in deposits such as the flysch of northern Spain or the Polish Carpathians , there is a great deal of evidence of erosion by the turbidity currents that laid down the sediment . |
| 4 | Firstly , that the acid test whether or not benefit is collateral is that laid down by Best J , namely " Is the covenant beneficial to the owner for the time being of the covenantee 's land , and to no one else ? " |
| 5 | It is only the slow pace of human speech and human reactions that slows down the electronic processes that come into play when national security appears to be at risk . |
| 6 | He attacked the claims of Prime Minister John Major and Chancellor Norman Lamont that bringing down inflation would get Britain out of the recession . |
| 7 | Leyshon and Stokle suffered horrific injuries when they were trapped in a burning car that plunged down a steep hillside near Birdlip in Gloucestershire in November two years ago . |
| 8 | Mr Frizzell explained that there are three key things that bring down reoffending . |
| 9 | I hurried down steep Flower Hill , a flowerless road of grey terraced houses and shops that led down to the bridge and the weir . |
| 10 | Then we came to a smashed yellow stone façade and a doorway that led down into a cellar . |
| 11 | The few tracks that led down Steep Ridgery were worn deep into the chalk and clay . |
| 12 | It was darker in the deep groove of the track that led down the Ridgery . |
| 13 | But there was hardly any left , only the long empty expanse from the last container to the door in the super-structure that led down to Nell . |
| 14 | Kit Hegarty moved swiftly around her large house in a quiet road that led down to the sea . |
| 15 | For at that moment , directly below the steps that led down to the Moebius Strip , the float of dummy Capellans was purring serenely by . |
| 16 | It had backed up against the patio , completely concealing the ornate wall and steps that led down onto the gravelled walks . |
| 17 | Would he , seventeen years afterwards , be able to rediscover the mouth of the hole that led down into the Goughdale Mine ? |
| 18 | There was nothing more interesting to be seen than if this had been the entrance to a rabbit warren , nothing but a tunnel that led down into darkness . |
| 19 | The boat house resembled a small chapel built into the sloping land that led down to the water 's edge , except that it was windowless and the bell in the tower no longer rang . |
| 20 | Eventually he was at the top of the slope that led down to the little towns of Streatley and Goring , separated , like their respective counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire , by the River Thames . |
| 21 | Luke Travis was standing at the top of the short flight of stone steps that led down to the garden . |
| 22 | She touched him , her hands flat against his chest , tangling in the dark , dark hair , following its trail that led down and down , stroking the aroused maleness that would be a part of her so very , very soon . |
| 23 | She blinked as they emerged into blinding brightness and searing heat , and paused to fumble for her sunglasses before they descended the broad flight of steps that led down to the canal . |
| 24 | But the city that goes down , the civilization ‘ run by the few ’ which ‘ fell to the many ’ , is not Ilium but Richmond or Montgomery or Atlanta , any one of the cities of the Confederacy finally sacked by Grant or Sheridan or the specially hated Sherman , generals of the victorious Yankee North . |
| 25 | Back in the tent there is more soup , coffee and a hunk of smoked lamb that goes down well . |
| 26 | They 'd there 's a little back staircase that goes down to the kitchens — sorry , lad , galley ! |
| 27 | Every one that goes down takes others with it . ’ |
| 28 | In the mid-1990s , object-oriented programming promises to bring the next irresistible revolution , but until that happens , no-one should be too surprised if the mass of desktop users splits into two camps , one that goes down the Unix-with-everything route , the other that decides as a matter of policy to remain in the ‘ do n't know ’ came , judging MS-DOS with a touch of Windows here and there to be good enough for the next three or four years until the picture of the future becomes a bit clearer . |
| 29 | thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb |
| 30 | But not to go all the way to Saint-Palais ; rather , after eight miles , turn to the right , over a crest , along a very minor road that goes down to the hamlet and caves of Isturits . |