Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |
| 2 | He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away . |
| 3 | Money has driven them deeper into the planet , money has brought them down in the world … |
| 4 | computers and that and er he left it and he just carried on talking about this that and the other , and he says right I 'm going and he went and he left the game , he 'd brought it down for the kids , he did n't say , you know |
| 5 | He had n't meant to say it , but it was the effect of the beer and the movement of the ship and her sophistication , all things he could n't cope with together , so he 'd taken her down to the bar and they 'd had a couple more drinks to restore his confidence before the boat docked . |
| 6 | They reckoned They was going to pull it down after the War . |
| 7 | If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter . |
| 8 | He would have been happier if the Latin American had made at least a pretence at attempting to beat him down on the charter price . |
| 9 | As you recall that successful scene , whenever something comes up that you enjoyed jot it down on the sheet entitled ‘ I would like more of this ! ’ |
| 10 | When Nigel learned of their whereabouts , he began to hunt them down with the aid of his yeomen . |
| 11 | Ellen screamed and was instantly seized by the other man , who , laughing at her wild struggles , began to force her down to the floor . |
| 12 | Now Stacey , I remember , she used to , this is , must be mentioned within the bunk as well , cos I , for some reason I remember sitting her down on the chair to dress her by the bunk |
| 13 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 14 | THE Tranmere Rovers players were so high on good publicity before this match that their manager , John King , said he would have to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 15 | If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’ |
| 16 | It would have suited you down to the ground . ’ |
| 17 | And like well I said to her I said well then Sandy would have put it down to the fact she did that bad in her ballet . |
| 18 | But Laura was a piranha ; she 'd have chewed him down to the bone if he had let her . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , get your best friend to take you home , ’ said the first constable , ‘ or we might have to take you down to the station for the good of your health . ’ |
| 20 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
| 21 | If Nodform Wonder is in anything like the form he was at Wetherby on Friday , he will laugh off the six pound penalty that is intended to slow him down in the Levy Board Handicap Hurdle at Kelso . |
| 22 | They offered to take her down to the sea , so off they went — accompanied by the Dares ' three dogs , hideous mongrels with hearts of gold . |
| 23 | Thankfully there were no injuries and he and Ave Barlow managed to make it down to the best of the mountain safely . |
| 24 | He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house . |
| 25 | It would even be worth surrendering his prey , to have brought him down to the ignominy of lying to excuse himself . |
| 26 | What I want you to do is try and hold on to it in your brain then when I 've finished write it down in the appropriate box and see if you can hold on to it long enough to do that . |
| 27 | So it pays to cut it down to the bare essentials — the minimum you feel is necessary . |
| 28 | They 're not really allowed to make it down at the farm . |
| 29 | In the longer term , however , we know that the UFC intends to force down unit costs as part of the expansion process and that if we do not expand we will have funding removed to bring us down to the unit of resource of those who have . |
| 30 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |