Example sentences of "it down [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He then picked up a stool and brought it down towards her but it smashed a ceiling light .
2 And the first was a twelve volt but then we came to a hundred and ten so I just strung it down along the two top wires of the fence and they were live and oh there were about six or nine hen houses attached to the fence with those wires for electricity .
3 He picked up my suitcase and carried it up the last flight , putting it down outside my door and turning to me .
4 With a little something to wash it down of course .
5 Gradually vanishing , as governments grow more sensitive and put it down as summer diarrhoea .
6 Elizabeth had noticed the lighthouse on her flight back to England two years previously , and had marked it down as a place that she must see .
7 I 'll mark it down as a stray . ’
8 He swallowed it down as if parched .
9 It does n't matter though because you , you put it down as negatives .
10 The slogans were in ill-formed , illiterate script and Owen at first put it down as the work of children ; not the children who went to the kuttub , who were infants , but older youths .
11 There 's no need to actually to put it down as a recommendation that stays forever more , there 's just no need for it .
12 Write it down as an odd .
13 and among they put it down as the parents er ca n't control her .
14 throw it down as ground bait
15 Svend Larsen pushed a pile of papers to one side of his desk , took a platter of open sandwiches from the top of his bookcase and set it down between Elisabeth and himself .
16 He took his own pistol from a pocket and jammed it down between his thighs .
17 Then we broke it down into smaller components to set us scale it down . ’
18 They then look at that figure , break it down into separate realistic amounts achievable in various ways and set up the systems that are going to raise that cash .
19 Rather than taking the piece as a whole she broke it down into smaller parts and then worked on them with separate hands and at varied rhythms .
20 Rather than trying to tackle the gybe as a whole , break it down into smaller component parts and try to make each part smooth .
21 Learning from experience is a process and , like all processes , it is possible to break it down into its constituent parts .
22 Analyse the skill , breaking it down into S-R units , chains , subtasks , prerequisite knowledge and skills .
23 Whatever type of communication system we use , we can break it down into the following parts : ( a ) a source of information ( b ) a device which converts the information into a suitable form for transmission ( c ) the means of communication ( channel of communication ) itself ( d ) perhaps some form of processing circuit(s) at intervals along the way ( e ) a destination for the signal and its conversion into a suitable form ( which is normally that of the original ) and , finally , ( f ) the receiver of the information .
24 Also , the turnaround found in bars 13–16 is a little tricky so , if you have any problems , break it down into small parts and practise it slowly , only building up the speed when you 're feeling more comfortable .
25 He followed the dive-bomber round in a very tight turn and shot it down into the sea , but found that his own aircraft was by then burning fiercely .
26 Taylor/L , A G.C. O'Nion intercepted a Z.506B which made off on seeing the fighter and attempted to evade by making steep turns , but Taylor was quickly onto its tail and forced it down into the sea .
27 It can involve redrawing the work to show a different scale of projection , or breaking it down into a general drawing or a series of drawings .
28 They are reclaiming rock from the strutting , posturing macho Metal peacocks and the fey , fumbling , characterless boys and dragging it down into a cathartic sexual/emotional hell for a slice of long-overdue feminine judgement .
29 The horsefly larvae use their two large jaws to capture the tiny toad and pull it down into the mud where they feed on its body fluids .
30 Boyd 's ability to take a controversial subject and set it down into explicable proportions is tested to the full in this work and the way in which the line fell into the Great Central 's hands together with the relationship of Benjamin Piercy 's trustees provides the kind of issues that keeps historians in correspondence for years to come .
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