Example sentences of "[pron] down as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A PENSIONER took revenge on two carjackers by ramming their car and then trying to mow one of them down as they fled in terror . |
| 2 | She 'll swallow that down nice and gently and it 'll coat her tummy and it will gradually work its way through into the bowel and quieten them down as well . |
| 3 | It is a shame that Opposition Members utterly neglect to welcome the successes of this country and take every opportunity to run them down as well as the prospects of the country . |
| 4 | Vicky Whitemore , knowing the problems that 'keepers face in these situations , was delegated with the responsibility and let no-one down as she launched the ball safely into an unguarded part of the net . |
| 5 | Benjamin 's modest but handsome little portrait seems to want to relay a message to us : I may not be blue-blooded , it says , but please do n't for a minute put me down as any kind of manual labourer — I belong to the established and rising ranks of the artisan middle-class . |
| 6 | They 've got me down as being , you know , insurance clerk . |
| 7 | I had you down as bone-meal actually , come the day . |
| 8 | ‘ She 'll ‘ ave you down as cracked , Daz , ’ said Alex . |
| 9 | then they 'll mark you down as being non-competent |
| 10 | pulls you up do that goes that way , does that goes that way so you 're upside down you see , you 've not only got weight and gravity pulling you down you 've also got the thrust of the engine pulling you down as well , and the only way the helicopters going to be able to do it is by getting enough height so they can sort of drop like that and they start dropping and they can just pull it back |
| 11 | He fired twice and Julie threw herself down as bullets ploughed into the kitchen table . |
| 12 | She put him down as the little grey man had foretold on a huge grey granite stone , pitted and scarred and bald . |
| 13 | It came from a very smart left-hand catch by Hick , his sixth of the match , a reprimand by gesture to WCM for putting him down as having missed a catch ( Aqib ) in the Lord 's Test which actually fell an inch or two short of Hick 's fingers . |
| 14 | And when it was not shouting him down as he tried to suggest that the powers of the courts were adequate , the conference heard Mr R. A. Butler pledge himself to a new building programme of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres . |
| 15 | So that an angry customer in Donegal will get exactly the same wording to calm him down as he would in Cork or Wexford . |
| 16 | Graham 's first touch let him down as Boro waited for offside and Stephen Pears was able to smother the ball . |
| 17 | He awkwardly unlocked the door and carried her to the sofa , laying her down as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 18 | Even her mother 's " Pull yourself together " remarks began to drag her down as she recognised that that was something she could not do . |
| 19 | Robert waved her down as he leapt out , and she was obliged to wait . |
| 20 | The camera followed it down as it walked across her breast ( thirty foot wide ) and past her nipple ( five foot high ) . |
| 21 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 22 | Beatty turned it down as not being a big enough role , and so Polanski went for Robert Redford . |
| 23 | I threw myself on top of the wheelbarrow to hold it down as he passed . |
| 24 | Basically , you step up feeding when the number of bites increases , and slow it down as bites slow down . |
| 25 | Salvation Army territorial commander Peter Chang added later : ‘ I 've got to say she did n't put it down as being in love . ’ |
| 26 | Unless you want to just discuss it and mark it down as we 're going through . |
| 27 | And the thing that sounded like a telephone number — I wrote it down as soon as we got out of the attic — " One-x-nine-two-four " … |
| 28 | Fold in the overlapping corners at the top tightly , to secure the cone — you could staple it down as well if you like . |
| 29 | I seem to have it down as being on the 30th March . |
| 30 | Which is n't actually hard but I have to write it down as well . |