Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [noun] and [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mowden found themselves 6–3 down at half-time and despite much second half pressure , they could not make the breakthrough and went down 12–3 , a late Ryton try settling the issue . |
| 2 | Sunsonic should forsake the pomp and strip down their sound . |
| 3 | Kit Everard had calculated that the Rebecca made a sitting target ; she would draw the enemy and pin down some of the fighting men , on both sides . |
| 4 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 5 | In cricket they used to put her at ‘ long leg ’ where the ball hardly ever penetrated , and she would take a book and lie down to read in the long grass . |
| 6 | Vi wished she could fire a gun and shoot down those bombers if only for what they had done to Gerry , but it was easy to be brave in this small , precious house when the sun still shone in the evening sky and a west wind blew away the stench of bombing and burning and broken bodies . |
| 7 | He use to sit there and say , is it getting cold in here ? and muggings I use to get up and feed the fire and go down and , I , I ca n't believe it when I think back you know . |
| 8 | Hey , if you were here now , sister mother , daughter lover ( niece , auntie , granny ) , maybe we could talk a bit and cuddle down together — nothing dirty . |