Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [verb] [pron] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they 'll drown themself and bring you down with them . |
| 2 | Instead of getting someone to calm me down and talk to me , a whole bunch of them came and jumped on me and rushed me down to the block and left me there . |
| 3 | And I 'll say this now , they was in business there , nextdoor , and I knew them like that , they says any machinery come here and use it , and they 'd got shears and all that sort of thing , and with their help , you know , I had these four locks and did them and took them down in no time to m to er , to and they was flabbergasted because of the quickness of them , you know , and they says er we can always find you sommat to work if er this is the case . |
| 4 | She does n't avoid the painful issues that divide us — but , as few writers can , she makes us laugh at them and bring them down to size . |
| 5 | Those luggers , as Denholm said , are hopeless windward sailors but in this case it will be directly astern of them and carry them down towards the Kásos Strait to the east of the easternmost tip of Crete . ’ |
| 6 | He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead . |
| 7 | With a sigh , she lifted her arms to reach him and pull him down to her , and the sheet , like her resolve , slipped away . |
| 8 | As I considered whether to smash her and throw her down on the mountainside , I caught her scent . |
| 9 | Her mother had bathed her in the tin bath in front of the kitchen fire , had dried her and sat her down before the fire with a bowl of steaming hot broth . |
| 10 | With a neat and elegant sideways kick of her high-heeled white sandal , she closed the door behind her and sat herself down opposite me in my visitors ' chair . |
| 11 | Two arms caught her and drew her down into warmth and security as she continued to cry into the comfort of her husband 's chest . |
| 12 | ‘ You — you — ’ Her hand shot up and Nicolo caught hold of it and twisted it down into her lap . |
| 13 | As his faithful knight Bedivere cast Arthur 's sword Excalibur into the waters of Llyn Llydaw the hand of the Lady of the Lake rose up to catch it and draw it down into the depths forever . |
| 14 | She took hold of it and put it down on the floor . |
| 15 | And you used to have what they call a wick in it you know to light it and turn it down at night time and blow it out down the . |
| 16 | He was still by the bomb , whacking the sand with his plank , using both hands to hold it and bringing it down with all his strength , jumping up in the air at the same time and yelling . |
| 17 | They sucked it and licked it down to size . |
| 18 | Well the first crane I drove was a was only at that so I was stuck on one of them and I had to sling me grab all the time and this , this bridge come round and miss the bridge and go over it and rush it down to the hold . |
| 19 | It was obviously a very clever song but it was n't until we were recording it and filming it down at Greenwich Studios , that we realised its potential because . |
| 20 | It traps us and pins us down in time , urging us to agree with Kierkegaard , that if life can only be lived forwards , it can only be understood backwards . |