Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may have cried down the telephone , but Mme Dragon would n't unbend . |
| 2 | No , oh I know what I never got that ai n't finished I 'll have to go down the shops , I might go down |
| 3 | This is bloody hard work — if I 'd wanted a holiday like this I could have gone down the mines for a fortnight . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd have to take down the shore , shore tomorrow . |
| 5 | And , oh , Ellie , if you had n't been here , I 'd have gone down the aisle looking such a fright … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I can remember going down the Speakeasy with The Clash to look for models to give us cocaine and blow jobs . |
| 7 | ‘ Ana will be easier but with Mitch arriving every other weekend you may have to lay down the law a little . ’ |
| 8 | As a general point , you should try to tie down the enemy 's best unit while you use your core troops to see off his second best troops . |
| 9 | You 'll having going down the bottom of the road here in a minute . |
| 10 | Of course , you 'd have to track down the right person . ’ |
| 11 | If this does not work , you will have to drain down the pipe and remove the fitting . |
| 12 | Obviously , you can try hitting down the lines or cross-court , but keep up the quality of the rallies by maintaining speed and weight of shot . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'll have to go down the off-licence . ’ |
| 14 | Whatever yous want , it 's up to yous , if yous want your shoes today I 'll get them but I was thinking if we 'd 've went down the town today |
| 15 | ‘ None of us would want to drop down a division , so we would have to close down the shop and go back to our day jobs . ’ |
| 16 | They may have gone down the medium wave dial from 10.17 to 8.55 , but their new premises in Ludlow is more than a few steps up from the barn . |
| 17 | ‘ You may suspect that judges share the common human failing of wanting to tell other people what they ought to do to lay down the law . |
| 18 | An obvious extension of this is that they should attempt to break down the isolation between practitioners in different countries . |
| 19 | ‘ Madam , they 'll have to ring down the curtain . |
| 20 | ‘ If they set out from Tara at the hour they intended , they will have gone down the forest road hours earlier . ’ |
| 21 | For many people the saddest aspect was the selectors ' policy of playing Randall at number three ; every fan in the country could have told them that he should have batted down the order and that exposing him so early was almost certain to fail . |
| 22 | On Aug. 17 Lewandowski had said that he would recommend shutting down the entire copper complex , which included the Lubin mines , if the strike continued . |
| 23 | On Aug. 17 Lewandowski had said that he would recommend shutting down the entire copper complex , which included the Lubin mines , if the strike continued . |
| 24 | What with the coffee , it would help to slow down the symptoms even further . |
| 25 | let's hope that it will begin to break down the isolation and conservatism of some fine art departments . |