Phrasal verbs con DOWN

Ejemplo 1The server invited us to sit down.

Ejemplo 2We sat down near the window and looked through the menu.

Ejemplo 1The director stepped down last month.

Ejemplo 2She stepped down as chair but remained on the board.

Ejemplo 1The department head stepped down at the end of the quarter.

Ejemplo 2He stepped down from the committee but kept his operational role.

Ejemplo 1The renovation team knocked the unsafe partition down.

Ejemplo 2Do not knock the wall down until the engineer confirms it is non-load-bearing.

Ejemplo 1The contractor pulled the temporary shelter down after handover.

Ejemplo 2The crew pulled the old hoarding down once the public route reopened.

Ejemplo 1Neither side backed down on the service-level requirement.

Ejemplo 2The distributor backed down after reviewing the volume forecast.

Ejemplo 1They put twenty percent down on the apartment.

Ejemplo 2The buyer put a larger deposit down to reduce the loan amount.

Ejemplo 1The importer put a deposit down to reserve production capacity.

Ejemplo 2The buyer put ten percent down when confirming the order.

Ejemplo 1I lay down for twenty minutes after cleaning.

Ejemplo 2He lay down on the sofa while the floor dried.

Ejemplo 1Neither person wanted to back down at first.

Ejemplo 2I backed down once I realized I had misunderstood the message.

Ejemplo 1Put the box down carefully.

Ejemplo 2She put her phone down and joined the conversation.

Ejemplo 1I put your name down for the workshop.

Ejemplo 2Put the reference number down before you call.

Ejemplo 1He keeps putting his colleagues down.

Ejemplo 2Good leaders do not put people down for asking questions.

Ejemplo 1Turn the heat down once the soup starts boiling.

Ejemplo 2The chef turned down the flame to keep the sauce from burning.

Ejemplo 1The company is cutting down on travel costs.

Ejemplo 2The team cut down on unnecessary meetings by sharing weekly updates.

Ejemplo 1The logs narrowed the issue down to one service.

Ejemplo 2Feature flags narrowed the regression down to the new parser.

Ejemplo 1The script shuts down idle workers.

Ejemplo 2Always shut the local emulator down before changing its configuration.

Ejemplo 1Cut the copy down to one sentence.

Ejemplo 2We cut the opening paragraph down so the benefit appeared sooner.

Ejemplo 1Housekeeping turned the room down while the guests were at dinner.

Ejemplo 2Please turn suite 502 down before the guests return from the theatre.

Ejemplo 1We narrowed the shortlist down to five people.

Ejemplo 2The panel narrowed the candidate pool down after the technical task.

Ejemplo 1She turned the offer down after reviewing the relocation terms.

Ejemplo 2Two candidates turned the offer down because of the start date.

Ejemplo 1The final decision will come down to security and support.

Ejemplo 2For this buyer, the choice comes down to implementation capacity.

Ejemplo 1We narrowed the issue down to one browser extension.

Ejemplo 2The error code narrowed the problem down to the payment step.

Ejemplo 1The caller calmed down once the agent explained the next step.

Ejemplo 2The customer calmed down when we acknowledged the delay directly.

Ejemplo 1The business drew down the first portion of the credit line.

Ejemplo 2The borrower may draw down approved funds in two stages.

Ejemplo 1The bank shut the compromised card down immediately.

Ejemplo 2Operations shut the affected payment route down while they investigated.

Ejemplo 1The prescribed treatment brought the fever down.

Ejemplo 2The intervention brought the patient's temperature down gradually.

Ejemplo 1The crew shut the system down after the final reading.

Ejemplo 2Operators shut the line down in a controlled sequence.

Ejemplo 1The turbine was shut down for scheduled maintenance.

Ejemplo 2Operators shut the affected feeder down immediately.

Ejemplo 1The equipment must cool down before inspection begins.

Ejemplo 2Let the battery cabinet cool down before opening it.

Ejemplo 1Wipe the kitchen counters down after cooking.

Ejemplo 2He wiped the dining table down with a damp cloth.

Ejemplo 1Fresh berry prices usually come down in season.

Ejemplo 2Tablet prices often come down when a newer model arrives.

Ejemplo 1We both calmed down before continuing the conversation.

Ejemplo 2Give her a moment to calm down before asking another question.

Ejemplo 1I need to slow down and focus on one task at a time.

Ejemplo 2She slowed her schedule down after several exhausting weeks.

Ejemplo 1She winds down by reading before bed.

Ejemplo 2A quiet routine helps the children wind down in the evening.

Ejemplo 1Walk for five minutes to cool down after the run.

Ejemplo 2The class cooled down with slow stretches and breathing.

Ejemplo 1The error rate went down after the fix.

Ejemplo 2Temperatures will go down overnight.

Ejemplo 1We touched down in Bogotá at noon.

Ejemplo 2The aircraft touched down safely despite the heavy rain.

Ejemplo 1He came down with the flu last weekend.

Ejemplo 2Several staff members came down with the same stomach virus.

Ejemplo 1Our rental car broke down outside the city.

Ejemplo 2The tour bus broke down halfway up the mountain.

Ejemplo 1Write down the new vocabulary.

Ejemplo 2I wrote the professor's three key questions down in my notebook.

Ejemplo 1Break the feature down into smaller tasks.

Ejemplo 2We broke the migration down into four reversible steps.

Ejemplo 1They tracked down a memory leak.

Ejemplo 2A request trace helped us track the source of the duplicate events down.

Ejemplo 1Break the expenses down by department.

Ejemplo 2The analyst broke the variance down by region and product line.

Ejemplo 1The team broke the mixed pallet down by product family.

Ejemplo 2Break the pallet down carefully and separate the fragile units.

Ejemplo 1The appellate court handed down its judgment on Friday.

Ejemplo 2The court handed a unanimous decision down.

Ejemplo 1The team laid the first waterproof membrane down.

Ejemplo 2They laid the protection boards down over the new membrane.

Ejemplo 1The store marked the winter coats down by thirty percent.

Ejemplo 2They marked the display model down because of a small scratch.

Ejemplo 1She broke down after weeks of pressure.

Ejemplo 2I nearly broke down when the final plan changed again.

Ejemplo 1Let us get down to work after lunch.

Ejemplo 2We need to get down to planning the launch.

Ejemplo 1I took the caller's number down.

Ejemplo 2Please take down the main points during the interview.

Ejemplo 1We put the delay down to bad weather.

Ejemplo 2The doctor put the improvement down to regular exercise.

Ejemplo 1I am sorry I let you down when you needed help.

Ejemplo 2She felt that her closest friends had let her down.

Ejemplo 1Nobody should look down on a beginner.

Ejemplo 2He felt that senior staff looked down on his role.