Example sentences of "[pers pn] down [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and we can take them down to the Christmas school fare . |
| 2 | In the living room she picked up a couple of wine glasses from the floor and set them down on a coffee table . |
| 3 | Then in order to compare your expenditure against likely income , jot them down on the Budget Planner ( see pages 120–25 ) . |
| 4 | Instead , it plonks them down on the gravel path and lets them knock about a bit . |
| 5 | The boy came in through the back carrying Russell 's blanket roll and carbine and put them down on the passenger bench . |
| 6 | He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away . |
| 7 | Those luggers , as Denholm said , are hopeless windward sailors but in this case it will be directly astern of them and carry them down towards the Kásos Strait to the east of the easternmost tip of Crete . ’ |
| 8 | She threw them down through the trap door and jumped after them to look . |
| 9 | Women motorists have been urged to be vigilant after two women were raped after three men flagged them down in a country lane in Bedfordshire . |
| 10 | In the wild , a fish can get around this problem by absorbing much bigger molecules and then breaking them down in the gut wall or bloodstream . |
| 11 | Stooping , he grabbed up the letters and stuffed them down behind the chair cushion just as the door opened and his sister walked in . |
| 12 | On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout . |
| 13 | I want you to drive me down to the railway station in about half an hour . ’ |
| 14 | " Mum used to send me down to the job centre for jobs . |
| 15 | They took me down to the labour ward and offered me a sedative to help me sleep . |
| 16 | They took me down to the labour room . |
| 17 | Azar called me over and with a flourish sat me down on a plastic deckchair at the front of the ring of spectators . |
| 18 | The concussion of the exploding wave drove me down like a steam hammer . |
| 19 | And er I went with my dad and got into the cage which takes you down to the pit bottom and er er er immediately the cage left the surface it just dropped like a stone and I myself was frightened that the bottom of the cage collapsed completely . |
| 20 | I will set you down at the West Gate . ’ |
| 21 | I never had you down as the afternoon tea type , Monica . |
| 22 | The terrified Frankie skidded round the corner wall of the end house and raced as fast as his legs would carry him down towards the walkway gate . |
| 23 | She helped him to the kitchen , as that seemed to be the best place for him for the moment , and sat him down at the kitchen table while she went and got a towel . |
| 24 | He would have been happier if the Latin American had made at least a pretence at attempting to beat him down on the charter price . |
| 25 | Yeah right I 'll put him down with a question mark . |
| 26 | We have n't put him down for a nursery school- ! |
| 27 | Frankie Albright was nineteen and just young enough to have missed the war ; he had tried to sign up when he was sixteen , only to be informed upon by his mother , who had followed him down to the recruiting office . |
| 28 | sort this out sensibly , the police overreact , they arrest him at midnight in the clothes he stands up in , they take him down to the police station , he 's held in the police station for about thirty six hours or so , something like that , er instead of being brought before the court straight away and released on bail straight away , they , they keep him in custody where he 's never been before , er and Madam he 's then released on bail but court imposes silly conditions on him , conditions that he should n't go back to his home address , he ca n't go and see his girlfriend , he ca n't go and see his children , er , and Madam it seems to be an abuse of the process really of the court to behave in this way . |
| 29 | I was warm and sleepy but my master kept haranguing me : compliance seemed the easiest way out so I put on my boots , grabbed my cloak and accompanied him down to the Templar chapel . |
| 30 | Sir Gregory , Amyas and two menservants were to take him down to the landing stage where a boat was waiting . |