Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] it down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earl brought in a yellow legal pad with a number of acronyms on it in boxes , and North put it down on the table ; at that point , his secure telephone went off , and he had to ask Miller to leave . |
| 2 | And puts it into roast in the oven , and takes it out after fifty minutes and then you get Philadelphia cheese and white wine melt it down in the wine |
| 3 | In the later seventeenth century a French duke turned it down on the grounds that his father , by holding it , had accumulated debts of 200,000 livres . |
| 4 | Alan Wilcox puts it down to the fact that there has always been a hard core of people for whom it becomes their chief social interest . |
| 5 | Kalchu put it down on the roof and clamped the body between his knees . |
| 6 | Rumour had it the owner of the Gazi burned it down for the insurance money . |
| 7 | He took a flashlight from his pocket to shine it down on the face of the petrified child who clung to the side of her mother . |
| 8 | Returning to the bedroom she crept back to the bed , raised the knife and without a moment 's thought drove it down into the sleeper 's chest . |
| 9 | Belinda put it down on the nearest table and sat there , shaking and desperately trying not to show how upset she was over Deana 's blunt accusation . |
| 10 | The weight of the shot drew it down through the grating and out of his sight like a skittering lizard . |
| 11 | Insiders put it down to the pressure of competing for six and seven figure salaries . |
| 12 | Making a fist Michael smashed it down on the desk in front of him , causing their empty coffee cups to rattle in their saucers . |