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Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] down [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps .
2	I fought down the ghastly urge coming up from my stomach .
3	I gulp down the orange drink and order another one .
4	I cut down a big tree , and then began to make a long hole in it .
5	At many revolutions per second I came down the green slide into Brixton and beyond .
6	I put down the empty can .
7	I walk down the real staircase , but I know , like Lot 's wife knew , that everything is crumbling to a smoke screen behind me , the urge to look back slaps at my face , but there has been enough powder to nothing in my life .
8	I walk down the steep flight of stairs .
9	I run down the spiral staircase and along the empty corridor .
10	‘ I turned down a new contract at the end of the season , even though it meant getting a testimonial next year because I 've got to be playing in the Premier League to confirm my place in the Irish side .
11	I rushed down the dark passage to the lavatory with both hands at my face .
12	Someone clattered down a wooden staircase .
13	By means best not mentioned I tracked down a living link with Martha .
14	Behold how I lay down the great weight of sorrow I have carried with me so long .
15	I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ?
16	I went down the wrong route with the referrals and
17	So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship .
18	To my surprise , by dint of my putting down the front seat , it fitted inside the car , so the public was spared the probably unusual sight of a coffin on a roof-rack .
19	Everybody is making the bodies real small , but I scaled down a teeny bit and what I took off that way , I added in thickness , so it 's fat , like a Les Paul , so you can get that big , beefy sound .
20	Yeah , yeah , like I come down the other week and I
21	Instead of returning by the old fence , however , ( which looked much worse from the top ) , I continued down the main ridge until the final spur , but this was just as steep .
22	This time there was no mistake : I wrote down the genetic formula , and now I can " evolve " insects whenever I want .
23	For the second period of ten years again I discount down the full agency rates , totalling fifty nine thousand four hundred and twenty one pounds and ninety six pence year yearly , to the sum of forty thousand pounds annually and to apply a multiplier of six , producing the figure of two hundred and forty thousand pounds for the second period .
24	There was a true feeling of achievement attached to our little ‘ I skied down a mountain' certificate , and a bit of weight had definitely dropped from the thighs on to the slopes .
25	‘ Well , I nipped down a little alley .
26	Mum got me to reach down a tall vase from the mantelshelf .
27	It is the official authority ‘ traditionally ’ associated with management , which goes down the scalar chain .
28	The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy .
29	We scrambled up the hillside on the left bank of an enormous river which thundered down a precipitous cascade of rapids into a foaming cauldron , raging with wind-whipped mist .
30	Finally , in December 1945 , the Ministry of Civil Aviation 's White paper on British air services , Cmd. 6712 , which set down the new government 's aviation policy , was submitted to the Cabinet by Lord Winster .