Example sentences of "[to-vb] they down [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I and er told Lindsey if she 'd ever any problems never to write them down to a friend |
| 2 | THE Tranmere Rovers players were so high on good publicity before this match that their manager , John King , said he would have to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 3 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 4 | When Nigel learned of their whereabouts , he began to hunt them down with the aid of his yeomen . |
| 5 | It catapults grains of sand at passing ants in an attempt to knock them down into the pit and eat them . |
| 6 | We used to chop them down in the slaughterhouse on two pulleys , you see . |
| 7 | It is far tougher to dive at the legs of an oncoming player than to haul them down by the neck or straight-arm tackle them as they run past you . |
| 8 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
| 9 | Gloria tied on her red headscarf , Dot buttoned up her pink cardigan and they went to wait for the bus to take them down to the hospital to see how Baby was doing . |
| 10 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 11 | Well I 'll be able to take them down in a minute . |
| 12 | These days people bring hamsters and terrapins and rabbits and dogs , but nobody quite has the nerve to pin them down on a slab and cut their throats . |
| 13 | Many people say generally that ‘ there should be no whaling for ethical reasons ’ , but when you try to pin them down to a formulation of those ethics , you find it exceedingly difficult and , I am afraid to say , probably unconvincing to most people of the nations of the world . |