Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] it down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 2 | Alexi Sayle says it will be a chance to ride your bike properly instead of taking it down to the chinese takeaway … |
| 3 | If the bird keeps struggling , it will be clawed and bitten repeatedly by its captor , but if it lies still the cat may then make the mistake of putting it down on the ground and releasing it from its jaws . |
| 4 | Mr Gillis seemed to delight in slamming it down on the top of the tousled head below . |
| 5 | Aim at getting it down onto the ground before it reaches the bank , hooding the clubface by setting the hands well forward , to reduce the effective loft of the club . |
| 6 | It was he , too , who had once dealt with a particularly troublesome stoat by leading it down among the pheasant coops and so ( at the risk of his own life ) on to a keeper 's gun . |