Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had dumped their two canvas bags on the ground , he reached up again to help her down from the high train . |
| 2 | " They claimed that they ought to be [ treated as ] free coloni by birth , and that Deodadus the monk [ responsible for running the Mitry estate ] wanted unjustly to bend them down into an inferior service by force , and to afflict them . " |
| 3 | The oriental had released them from their cells a short time before , and ordered them to precede him down through an open trapdoor into a secret escape tunnel . |
| 4 | Her mother handed her a glass of white wine , so generously filled that Kate was obliged to take a long sip before it was safe to put it down on the small table by the side of the chair . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 7 | They did come in , and it took seven of them to get me down to a single cell . |
| 8 | And I used to take it down to the grave yard . |
| 9 | The two belligerents having accepted this text in principle , Perez de Cuellar 's task , involving a bout of shuttle diplomacy , was now to pin them down to an actual cease-fire on the ground . |
| 10 | Slippery Elm you see you had to tape it down to a fine point and then insert it you see , and if you did n't get the right place well it 'd kill you . |
| 11 | So it pays to cut it down to the bare essentials — the minimum you feel is necessary . |