Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] down the " 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 | Five minutes later he had slithered down the sandy cliffs , a mug of tea slopping in each hand . |
| 4 | Equally , the whole House will have seen for itself how far we have moved down the Order Paper today and that I have called a number of English Members on hospital trust matters . |
| 5 | Yeah right it ca n't get out it has to go down the pipe . |
| 6 | So far he has tracked down the chemical 3-methyl-2-hexenoic acid . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe we need to tone down the sexy image a little , Mandy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Or maybe they had closed down the Project and abandoned him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Erm so that 's why I 've put down the two . |
| 13 | Time and again we have put down the markers and placed on record that we would regard it as a perfectly reasonable alternative to what exists now if there were a series of companies throughout Scotland which represented the ownership of those at present employed by the Scottish Bus Group under the same conditions as at present and with the same commitment to the current level of services . |
| 14 | That 's why they had torn down the children 's hospital to make room for the miniature golf course . |
| 15 | 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 . |