Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I went through them and I I narrowed it down to three things now . |
| 2 | I followed him down from 2,000 feet — put carb heat on — I was descending as quickly as the helicopter ; we managed to keep him visual . |
| 3 | I talked him down at one point |
| 4 | And I brought it down to half a dozen staff . |
| 5 | I wrote them down for each person . |
| 6 | ‘ I saw it at the doctor 's on the board — an ’ I wrote it down after last week — I did n't know what else to do . |
| 7 | The nose-wheel is normally lifted at seventy knots to rotate at ninety , but because of the wind I held her down to 95 for a clean lift-off at a hundred after a run of a thousand yards or so . |
| 8 | Supposing she let them down after dear Franz Busacher had connived and wheedled to make her acceptable to Gesner ? |
| 9 | Rather than taking the piece as a whole she broke it down into smaller parts and then worked on them with separate hands and at varied rhythms . |
| 10 | It was an art er if you look Aye , all the time you cleared it down with this , you see ? |
| 11 | Then we broke it down into smaller components to set us scale it down . ’ |
| 12 | Aha that was just went in It was all blown to the side and that was it was kept just for the for the carol beasts for the sheds you see , for the that was what the what we saw what they bedded them down with that . |
| 13 | When children came running to them for sweets , they scythed them down with automatic fire . |
| 14 | from Budgen 's , when erm ah , you know at Chris , Christmas they had it down at one seventy nine a pound , did n't they ? |
| 15 | He heard her sigh deeply , the way she always did when he let her down in some way . |
| 16 | Then he hosed him down with warm water until all traces of the beck had been removed . |
| 17 | Until he cut it down in later years , his run-up was extremely long — and his saunter back to his mark extremely slow — but the speed that it generated undoubtedly justified the length , and the grace of it all was an aesthetic delight . |
| 18 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 19 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 20 | Anyway he looked like that he had a red car and he was sitting in the car and he put them down like that and they were like that in the car and after I thought I should 've popped at her house see if she 's wearing that in the house I thought you git . |
| 21 | When he discovered I could play the piano , whenever we were off together he dragged me down to one of the older lecture rooms in the Medical School basement that happened to possess a piano , to thump out the background beat . |
| 22 | He set it down on one of the small tables , then handed her a paper napkin , a spoon and a fork before giving her one of the bowls . |