Example sentences of "[vb infin] us down " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on the ones cos they were trying to s screw us down to the floor and on the popular metric where they I knew they were gon na they could find better suppliers , I was only about two per cent on some of those . |
| 2 | Coventry ( again ) were playing West Brom , West Brom were below us and had to beat coventry to stay up and send us down . |
| 3 | Not a word on why Scum could nt break us down . |
| 4 | But they ca n't keep us down forever 'cause we 're going to show whites that we 're better than them at their own game . |
| 5 | Scott come round and she 'll meet us down here . |
| 6 | For humans , as we have discussed in Chapter 1 , the body has been ‘ waking us up ’ since about 5 o'clock in the morning so that , by the time we normally wake , we are prepared for the rigours of a new day ; in the evening our body begins to ‘ tone us down ’ to prepare us for getting to sleep . |
| 7 | Well , that by now familiar music will tell you that at the end of January , Douglas Cameron 's Breakfast Call will be broadcasting live from Sydney , and in the next few minutes , I 'll be telling you how you can join us down under , for the Dougie Down Under Competition , stay tuned for that , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 8 | ‘ Better take us down a piece , where the bank levels out . |
| 9 | Cos when the well as soon as you could walk in the summer er you know when weather permitting my mam 'd take us down on the beach there and , Here you are , sink or swim in you 'd go into the water . |
| 10 | I mean , this next plan will also take us down that path . |
| 11 | ‘ He 'll navigate us down into the ice , and afterwards he will act as our guide . ’ |
| 12 | The Spectator gets its readers off the hook by a return to Malthus , who made a virtue of not helping the poor , as then , he informed us , they would drag us down by overbreeding . |
| 13 | I said do n't try and drag us down with your slipshod ways . |
| 14 | They have n't told us anything , but if something does n't happen by nine , I reckon they 'll stand us down . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 16 | They do n't pretend to offer us anything so they ca n't let us down . |
| 17 | Faced with the need to chastise a dancer , she never gave way to anger nor showed her annoyance but her eyes would fill with tears and she would say , ‘ I never thought a Tiller would let us down like this . ’ |
| 18 | I will say this : we have players of real character who will not let us down . |
| 19 | We had a lot of youngsters in because of injuries and they did n't let us down . ’ |
| 20 | Speedwise the 433S did n't let us down . |
| 21 | But I knew in the end you would n't let us down — and I was right , was n't I ? ’ |
| 22 | So , that would be Freud 's defence , now , I suppose you would have to know a lot more about modern history , to , to know , if this was really true or not , but erm , the the er , question that Freud was really asking himself , really was , why did Wilson let us down , because Freud admits that he regarded Wilson , when he came to Europe as a saviour . |
| 23 | Do n't let us down Hayley |
| 24 | We did not let them put us down easily . |
| 25 | But do n't you remember they kept kept saying they were going to shut us down shut us down and then six months later we went there and then ah no they 're not shut us down and |
| 26 | In both of these cases our body clock is wrongly timed for our life-style and so it does not cool us down and make us feel more fatigued in the hours just before bedtime . |
| 27 | They 'll pin us down and then swarm all over us . ’ |
| 28 | A 1–0 result that should settle us down for the coming weeks especially with Liverpool and Arsenal back to back . |
| 29 | He 'll slow us down . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We wo n't let this matter slow us down , ’ said Kragan , moving closer to Frick . |