Example sentences of "[pron] down [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It needed people to work all night sending out subscription copies , getting them down to the all-night post office . |
| 2 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 3 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 4 | When they boarded the glittering red , gold and green floating restaurant , the maître d ’ took them down to the fresh fish display in the base . |
| 5 | And he had taken them down into the Southern Ocean , not as far as we were going , but far enough to be in amongst the ice , circumnavigating the whole land mass of Antarctica in waters no man had ever sailed before . |
| 6 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Incineration is the most appropriate disposal method for many wastes which can be rendered harmless only by breaking them down through the controlled use of heat . |
| 11 | The steward took them down beyond the Great Hall into a vast , stone-flagged kitchen . |
| 12 | Their path took them down beyond the Technical College and the School of Art building , where Buddie and two of his sisters posed as living models for the students . |
| 13 | Coming from eighty throats , it swept with them down from the wooded foothills and made them sound like a flock of scavenging birds disturbed from their carcass . |
| 14 | Skirting a tinker camp , Mrs M. eventually put me down beside the fast-flowing River Moy at Ballina . |
| 15 | Corbett groaned and went up to his chamber , throwing himself down on the small cot and reflecting on what he had learnt . |
| 16 | He pitched forward , throwing himself down in the glutinous mud , covering his head with his hands as Farrell replied , bullets slicing through the air and singing above the prone man 's body , missing him , it seemed , by mere inches . |
| 17 | No up the top , third one down on the right hand side . |
| 18 | Just lob one down through the open top of the cab , will you ? ’ |
| 19 | He grunted by way of greeting as the fat widow dumped herself down on the other chair , but did not raise his eyes from his reading . |
| 20 | She dumped herself down on the low stone wall that skirted the churchyard . |
| 21 | Perdita cried unashamedly after they left , fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane . |
| 22 | Felicity flung herself down on the sacrificial stone , opening wide her legs , arching her back , so that her pudendum rose in the air like some nocturnal flower . |
| 23 | She swung herself down from the back door and went round to the front steps of the kiosk . |
| 24 | A bell tolled , the sign for Compline , and Lady Amelia led him down through the darkened cloister out across the grass to the church . |
| 25 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 26 | I threw some of the water from the bowl over my own face and drank the rest for I was thirsty , then followed him down to the Great Hall . |
| 27 | At first she could n't find him anywhere but finally she tracked him down to the big barn . |
| 28 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |
| 29 | And you know , so often you and I , we have questions that we want to bring to the Lord , if only was here in person , if only we could sit him down in the front room , how many things we would have to ask of him ! |
| 30 | She was hit and caught fire while going in to attack at low level and her pilot Don MacIntyre brought her down on the frozen surface of nearby Lake Hocklingen . |