Example sentences of "[vb infin] be [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF the BBC wants to secure its future the first thing it should do is cut down on the huge fees it pays to presenters . |
| 2 | The universe as a whole would have continued expanding and cooling , but in regions that were slightly denser than average , the expansion would have been slowed down by the extra gravitational attraction . |
| 3 | Thus twenty tons of explosives could have been rained down on the Voie Sacrée each day , not to mention demoralising night attacks . |
| 4 | The Commander embarked on one of his monologues on the supineness of the Tory government and the unregenerate socialism of the opposition , interrupted only by murmurs of approval from Fagg , who contributed the insight that rioting yobs in a northern city should have been put down by the Gurkhas . |
| 5 | I 'm not saying they 'd have been sucked down with the yacht but they might have had a rather uncomfortable time . ’ |
| 6 | It did not help the Irish , either , that they may well have been winding down after the Five Nations Championship whereas New Zealand 's players were hitting top gear with early-season All Black trials . |
| 7 | He could have been plummeting down to the centre of the earth , in a submarine nudging over the seabed or flying soundlessly through outer space . |