Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] down a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall return to that point later , but I want to put down a clear marker now . |
| 2 | I did hold down a responsible job in my last post , ’ she said . |
| 3 | It was a bad moment and I had to put down a swift impulse to rush to the side and throw myself over . |
| 4 | Great that we 're making a few bob at last ; I 've bunged down a few more ideas for old Clash songs we could flog to various fee-paying customers . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've jotted down a few details , numbers and so on . |
| 6 | Well it 's , look he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark , ten seconds later he passed the two hundred and fifty metre mark , how far did he run in ten seconds and you 've put down a hundred metres |
| 7 | About six months after the dinner party she realised that , for the first time in her life , she had turned down a decent journalistic commission in order to start work for a crazy old lady off Ladbroke Grove , whose garden specialised in old roses , and who was insistent about sterilising soil before new plantings . |
| 8 | Gone are the days when you had to slide down a muddy bank and hold an old mercury one at arms length . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've come to ask you savage bloody chaps why the hell you have cut down a pleasant grove of willows . ’ |
| 10 | Oh dear , the thing is , as , as far as I can remember I ca n't find it in any of the two books that I 've got out at the moment , it 's not under , but I vaguely remember that you have to dig down a certain . |
| 11 | God she 's written down a massive great essay oh my God ! |
| 12 | Okay , so she 's gone down a few orifices in her time , but if anyone calls her a hookworm I 'll burst their intestines . |
| 13 | They 'd gone down a narrow alleyway — up North they 're called ‘ ginnels ’ but do n't ask me why ; I just observe , I do n't translate — which led to another alley at right-angles . |
| 14 | He lacks social adroitness , or any kind of personal magnetism , as he struggles to hold down a charmless job which depends on the goodwill of others . |
| 15 | A true story — albeit hard to believe — was that , fearing the devaluation of the currency , he had melted down a considerable quantity of silver coin and buried the ingots in the grounds of the Park . |
| 16 | When he had wolfed down a few chapattis and an onion bhaji , Amiss took a slurp of lager and then leaned back . |
| 17 | And while th they 're down there , can they put a co re-bend that cornerstone , we used to have a cornerstone , it 's got pushed into the dike , and it 's gone down a few yards |
| 18 | obviously , but he 's , he 's gone down , I , I can see he 's gone down a little bit |