Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [pron] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Dear mermaids , wo n't you please turn the wheel and spin me down to the sea-king 's palace ? " |
| 2 | Dad marched over , pulled my hands out of my ears and forced them down to my sides . |
| 3 | Cornelius retrieved both letter and card and set them down before him . |
| 4 | Simply waggle the club and set it down in your normal address position . |
| 5 | We are very sorry we have caused any inconvenience to club and are hoping E McCormick accepts this letter of apology on our behalf club and puts it down to a mis-understanding by his supporters . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps this will jog your memory ! ’ he warned , and with an economy of movement had taken her seat and pulled her down across his knees . |
| 7 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 8 | And instinctively she reached out her arms as if to circle his neck and draw him down into an imaginary embrace . |
| 9 | The mountain shook for several long seconds , after which time they were delighted to see the Doctor hurtle out of the cave mouth and hurl himself down towards them . |
| 10 | Darius grabs a wedge , ices it with half an inch of butter , crams it in his mouth and washes it down with a can of Coke . |
| 11 | Sam popped several coloured capsules into his mouth and washed them down with another slug of firewater . |
| 12 | Mick came and made some tea and sat her down with a cup in her hands and tried to talk some sense into her . |
| 13 | You can use paper of similar thickness but unless you stick it in some way to the faces it is difficult to keep it in position when assembling the cores into the bobbin and bolting it down to the board . |
| 14 | Thirdly , and most important of all in the genesis of Doctor Who , are the people who inspired it — the few who drew the notion of Doctor Who from the seeds of human inventiveness and put them down on paper . |
| 15 | As Floy and Snodgrass watched in silence , the Elms stretched out their hard , lichen-crusted branches and brought them down on the prisoner 's shoulders and thighs , at the place where the skin had started to tear . |
| 16 | He lifted her fingers to the head of his parrot and stroked them down along its back . |
| 17 | Large corporations draw up ground plans for restaurants and reduce everything down to a level of mediocrity . |
| 18 | And that was the poor old man he was just just about away so they sent for the ambulance and took him down to Forfar to They used to call that the poor house , I do n't know what they call it now but it was the poor house in those |
| 19 | He lifted the tray from her lap and set it down by the bed . |
| 20 | These powerful mountain-dwelling Elves leapt among the Naggarothi assassins and chopped them down with their great axes , saving Caledor 's life . |
| 21 | Then suddenly closing his eyes and clenching his fist and bringing it down on the counter , he said , ‘ Whatever you want to do , for God 's sake ! |
| 22 | Taczek hoisted his fist and smacked it down on the table with a hollow bang . |
| 23 | He carried her across the corridor and put her down on the bed . |
| 24 | If the gull has the nerve to dive at them , an auntie may even grab it by the feet and pull it down into the water . |
| 25 | Then we clad and ran off home then we went back mishchifing again we came to a boy and shoved he down in the grass and piched is sweet and then we ran off then I made a apple bom then I chudet it then we went home . |
| 26 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 27 | The horse , moving to juicier thistles , lifted a great chipped hoof large as a soup-plate and put it down beside Hoomey 's plimsoll . |
| 28 | So if you ca n't be more positive — ’ she folded her napkin and threw it down like a gauntlet on the table between them ‘ — then I do n't see why I should stay here and listen to you . ’ |
| 29 | Easing forward on the yoke , Vologsky tested the change of control , putting the Foxbat into a gentle dive and taking it down to just over 45,000 feet . |
| 30 | On the spectator 's left ( fig. 127 ) a Lapith drags down a Centaur who with right hand against the ground resists the pressure while his left is still buried in a woman 's hair and drags her down with him as she claws at his beard with back-stretched hand . |