Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] them down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 2 | It is far tougher to dive at the legs of an oncoming player than to haul them down by the neck or straight-arm tackle them as they run past you . |
| 3 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 4 | Stooping , he grabbed up the letters and stuffed them down behind the chair cushion just as the door opened and his sister walked in . |
| 5 | Make the patchwork on the shells by spreading the glue over a small area , laying on scraps of cloth and pressing them down with the damp cloth . |
| 6 | So how does pancreatic lipase , an enzyme that knocks around in the essentially aqueous environment of the small intestine , get to grips with fats and oils and break them down into the glycerol and fatty acids that are readily absorbed by the lining of the gut ? |
| 7 | I took out the 8000 and put them down on the table . |
| 8 | The boy came in through the back carrying Russell 's blanket roll and carbine and put them down on the passenger bench . |
| 9 | At eighteen it 's so easy to romanticise things and put them down in a song . |
| 10 | He saw things in a flash and put them down in a sentence or at most a paragraph . |
| 11 | For this take young supple stems and bend them down to the soil . |
| 12 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 13 | First came the minstrels , yelling war songs , and when they had finished they tore off their mantles and threw them down before the Empress , saying now that they had fought for her such clothes were no longer worthy of them and would she give them new ones ? |
| 14 | In the living room she picked up a couple of wine glasses from the floor and set them down on a coffee table . |
| 15 | Picking up the drinks , she crossed the room and set them down on the trestle , careful to keep her face turned away from the window . |
| 16 | She waited until the first few bars of the signature tune started to play , then unclipped her headphones and set them down on the desk with a sharp clatter before starting to gather up the stack of notes . |
| 17 | He reached towards her with his strong hands and pressed them down on the fine-boned structure of her shoulders , massaging with rhythmic , kneading movements . |
| 18 | The Repo Men armed their holy water-pistols and angled them down at the devil-made-flesh . |
| 19 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
| 20 | But long before he reaches him he recognizes him — from the way he 's sitting , sprawled back in an armchair with his feet on a coffee-table , reading an ancient Amazing Science Fiction ; from his spectacles and rumpled hair ; from the fact that he 's taken his shoes and socks off to cool his feet , and tossed them down on the coffee-table ; from the way he does n't look up , even as Howard comes right up to him , goggling head leading the way , unable to believe his eyes . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Cornelius threw up his hands and brought them down amidst a torrent of hair . |
| 23 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 27 | All of them enthusiastic — questions are coming think and fast , not at the end of a lecture — I think we actually slightly dominate them because we 're not school teachers , but quote with a big U ‘ University lecturers ’ , but get them down in the laboratory and the questions come thick and fast from boys and girls — no difference whatsoever . |