Example sentences of "[pron] down [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 've been invited to join them down south . ’
2 I 've not got them down love
3 But he used to buy them and send them down home by train , and we used to cart them by horse and cart from the station .
4 I used to , I used to buy them from Smithfield , the show , cattle show and years ago , when we had them down home , we used to show them Saturday nights outside the front of the shop .
5 I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to .
6 Put them down son .
7 Coaching them … steering them down stream will be one of the centre 's instructor 's Jason Applegate from Milton Keynes …
8 Unity Bank 's Terry Thomas , who represented another backer which it was hoped would look favourably on the project , the Labour Party-linked Co-operative Bank , turned them down flat .
9 Let me down , let me down mum , let me down .
10 Anyway , I found out 'oo it was , you could 've knocked me down wiv a fevver .
11 Anyway , I found out 'oo it was , you could 've knocked me down wiv a fevver .
12 Also two tours from the top take you down offpiste to the road , where by arrangement the hotel bus will pick you up .
13 What was needed was something down home and businesslike .
14 One day last week we 'ad to get us own lunch , me young See-all-hear-all-say-nowt upstairs , and then I had to bellow to get him down t'elp or I 'd 'ave been stuck 'ere in this chair wi'out a sup or bite from dawn to dusk and beyond .
15 It is this experience which first tempted Sohl to seek out the Geordie and eventually bring him down south .
16 He knows you 're better at his job and you turned him down flat .
17 ‘ That dog will gobble her down whole — the admiral said so ! ’
18 Chucking it down ma !
19 you pulled it down ad you got the various size bottles in this we got half and one ounce , here two ounce , further up three ounce .
20 A bus would repeat itself every hour and he 'd say , run that one down , or that was running it down hour after hour until about seven o'clock when certain buses were run in .
21 Alix brought a chrome bowl out of an open cupboard , set it down ajangle with instruments of torture and turned on the generator for her machines .
22 and course then the sides cave in again and that 's the idea they can keep it down level , or try to .
23 And you just put a drop in there , heated and leave it till it hardens and then sandpaper it down level .
24 They 'd bloody take notice down and push it down toilet !
25 Ooh , our Tommy took that mat key , but he took it down home ,
26 Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it .
27 It took him 20 minutes to make it down safety and it 's an experience he 's not keen to repeat .
28 said sometimes he says , you 've got to take windscreen out if you ca n't get it down rubber .
29 Chairman I think I have to offer an apology to members and Mr in particular and the town of Bungay with a rather erm over which sentence expressing the press release , I mean we are continually trying to issue news items , press releases , progress reports and anything we 're doing and usually the press are very good and quoted for a basis , sometimes they get it wrong and mangle it up with some bits of disaster , on this occasion that is not the case , the , the actual press report did determine the phraseology used in my in lease them so I have to accept the responsibility for the phrase to act of your recommended this morning so it down sake , could abandon ideas which they can buy it , of course those crazy ideas used in and out of the court is what matters .
30 Fetch in ten or twelve from the crowd and push 'em down Hell 's Mouth . ’
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