Example sentences of "they down [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the Sixties , the Manager and his Chief Engineer Alan Williams struggled to make the trams economic and resisted attempts to close them down completely . |
| 2 | Listen attentively , and if information or details have to be recorded , write them down clearly and legibly , as they are given . |
| 3 | You had to buy your own stuff , I bought a pair of thigh boots and they were all made with leather and he and I used to put neat's-foot oil on them and I could roll them down just like a b just like a boot . |
| 4 | Will the Chancellor explain why after the 1983 and 1987 elections inflation and other indicators rose significantly but the Government managed to get them down just before those elections ? |
| 5 | Now , before you right them down just tell me what they are and then we can go back and write them down . |
| 6 | on a lot of systems , really now is the time for you to try and go and buy a new system , because you can knock them down immensely really good bargains the basic |
| 7 | He 'd let them down disgracefully , ruining a dinner party that was given entirely for his benefit . |
| 8 | oh alright , he 's put them down somewhere and he ca n't find them , and he thought perhaps you might of picked them up , cos you 're always picking things up you should n't are n't you ? |
| 9 | Just look for dad 's car keys , I 've put them down somewhere . |
| 10 | Sometimes one or other would roam round the room picking things up , examining them and putting them down again ; or looking with unfocused eyes at nothing at all . |
| 11 | Prices of appellation d'origine controlee wines rose to what some would say were over-ambitious levels but lack of demand has forced them down again by a tenth or more in Britain with even bigger discounts available in French supermarkets . |
| 12 | He stared hard at the pattern , gathered them up , threw them down again . |
| 13 | Sarah went round the room , picking up objects and putting them down again . |
| 14 | He guessed they were for the morals group , since neither he nor Mrs Frizzell ever really read a book , and he put them down again , still mystified . |
| 15 | She lifted three legs off the ground and put them down again . |
| 16 | At last the sun-god put them down again , back in the forest where they had been before , and he said , " Listen to me . |
| 17 | Noise had become Ariel 's lot : she , who had lifted her feet and put them down again so quietly on the slopes that birds did not stir at her passing , was used to hearing a single song in her head at any one time . |
| 18 | a few years ago , the mail revealed a photograph of an elaborately chased soup tureen engraved with the arms of the Duke of York , the second son of George III , who was immortalised in the nursery rhyme as the man who marched his men up the hill and marched them down again . |
| 19 | He moved the coat aside , quickly lifted Emilia 's skirt and the petticoats beneath , then drew them down again . |
| 20 | Well , they marched them to the top of the hill and they marched them down again . |
| 21 | Unable to settle , she trailed round the small cottage , picking things up , putting them down again , with no clear idea of what to do . |
| 22 | One can pull interest rates up , but one can not push the string to get them down again . |
| 23 | and you 'd have to guide them down again , backwards , |
| 24 | Mr. Crowther picked up the papers in front of him and set them down again very neatly . |
| 25 | But United 's shortcomings … weakenesses are still all too obvious … a leaky defence let them down again just when it mattered most when the final whistle was minutes away as Redfearn hit the equaliser to make it one-all |
| 26 | And with their home form letting them down again this was their sixth successive home game without a win then there is n't much chance of that . |
| 27 | just say , ok take them out , how he kills them when they 're , when the picks them up and throws them down again |
| 28 | So she said well do n't do n't put them down again I 'm doing it by the computer . |
| 29 | He walked them to the top of the hill and then walked them down again . |
| 30 | The grand old Duke of York , he had ten thousand men , he marched them up to the top of the hill and he marched them down again . |