Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had rolled a bundle together he began to take down the tent , grabbing at the guy ropes . |
| 2 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 3 | Yeah right it ca n't get out it has to go down the pipe . |
| 4 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |
| 5 | Maybe you need to track down an old kitchen manufacturer , or perhaps you 've just signed a contract to get rid of a high-pressure salesman , and are worried because there does n't appear to be a get-out clause . |
| 6 | ‘ Maybe we need to tone down the sexy image a little , Mandy . |
| 7 | From there we had to shuffle down the underground to Davenports Magic Shop , where Paul had been lured in order to buy an ancient Chinese trick , hence the coolie gear . |
| 8 | Sharpe spurred down to the crossroads , touched his hat to the old ladies who were staring with alarm at the two horsemen , then he turned to gaze down the long southwards road that led to Charleroi . |
| 9 | Gone are the days when you had to slide down a muddy bank and hold an old mercury one at arms length . |
| 10 | After all this time of wondering , when her instincts told her that he was in love with her yet he seemed to draw down a shutter between them so often , it seemed almost too good to be true . |
| 11 | a bald patch , yes , so she had wear , actually we had to cut down a plastic bucket cos she was a big dog |
| 12 | l here were about a dozen customers , mostly middle-aged men sitting alone reading Evening Standards who only troubled the barman to the extent that occasionally he had to turn down the corner of a page of his Stephen King paperback . |