Example sentences of "[verb] down the [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've forgotten to write down the bad dream I had last night . |
| 2 | You get a little book , and you have to take out the tape , and you have to write down the different conversations you have in between , all your conversations , and then erm , . |
| 3 | The mass demonstrations of the first year are rare these days and the army and Shin Bet security service have been chalking up success after bloody success in hunting down the masked youths who throw petrol bombs and kill collaborators . |
| 4 | The mass demonstrations of the first year are rare these days and the army and Shin Bet security service have been chalking up success after bloody success in hunting down the masked youths who throw petrol bombs and kill collaborators . |
| 5 | Forsooth , my lord , quoth 1 , your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters , now , I hear say , be become so great devourers and so wild , that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves . |
| 6 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |
| 7 | ‘ I mean , to have a German plane shot down the first time we went up . ’ |
| 8 | Going down the second fairway he told me he 'd lost his yardage book and asked me what I thought his second shot was . |
| 9 | Because once the ship come up that 's still a certain amount of water in the hold which that must be , cos then once you heave your door up then of course you load your ship again and then cos your ship was going down the more mud you put in , course mud is heavier than water |
| 10 | Mowed down the first time she left her new baby son |
| 11 | He turned down the first street he came to , turned left , right , left again , he walked down a hill , along an alley , through a deserted square , but still he could n't find one anywhere . |
| 12 | Toshack has taken pains to play down the hard-man image he brought from San Sebastian , swearing that the extra training ordered after the poor performance at Castellon was not a punishment . |
| 13 | Councils argued that rather than run down the home-help service it was better to charge those who could afford to pay and keep the total level of service . |
| 14 | I climbed the two flights of stairs and walked down the rickety balcony which led to Ellen 's small end room . |
| 15 | At lunchtime the following day , Tuesday , February 12 , the police are breaking down the new lock which Tommy has attached to Christopher 's purple front door . |
| 16 | As we continue down the stratigraphical column we find examples in other kinds of sediment and in other kinds of quite high energy facies . |
| 17 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |
| 18 | When Razor went down the first time I was shouting and jumping up and down , ’ she said . |
| 19 | She said well it 's too late now , the the clear one 's full so we just anyway , went I went down the next day there 's a new one or , next time , there 's a new one down there so they , they must obviously think , well put them all in together . |
| 20 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 21 | Go down the other end I expect . |
| 22 | This is a problem from which the ordinary courts are not immune , but it is true that this type of uncertainty is absent from the rival schemes because there the courts lay down the precise meaning which a term should bear . |
| 23 | And I think the way we did it we marked down the three shops we wanted to do and make sure you do those three shops . |
| 24 | look at this traffic coming in now I think the way we did it , we marked down the three shops we wanted to do |
| 25 | Transformer T1 , of course , steps down the main voltage which is connected to it 's primary winding . |
| 26 | And before we can create this new confident person , we frequently have to break down the poor self-image he or she has acquired over the years . |
| 27 | Work out what you want to know , write down the approximate question you think will bring out the right answer and then in a third column put a percentage to represent how much the answer equates with what you would like to hear . |
| 28 | He ran down the first alleyway he came to , across the next street , over gardens and waste ground , and finally slowed to a stop , listening to the still night . |
| 29 | At one stage , residents offered to lay down the sleeping policemen themselves , but the request was turned down . |
| 30 | For Adam Smith in 1776 , laying down the philosophical system which was to become the ideological underpinning of the market economy , they were the greatest obstruction placed on the movement of labour for they affected even common labour , while the regulations of guilds and corporations restricted the movement only of artisans . |