Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | computers and that and er he left it and he just carried on talking about this that and the other , and he says right I 'm going and he went and he left the game , he 'd brought it down for the kids , he did n't say , you know |
| 4 | He had n't meant to say it , but it was the effect of the beer and the movement of the ship and her sophistication , all things he could n't cope with together , so he 'd taken her down to the bar and they 'd had a couple more drinks to restore his confidence before the boat docked . |
| 5 | As you recall that successful scene , whenever something comes up that you enjoyed jot it down on the sheet entitled ‘ I would like more of this ! ’ |
| 6 | When Nigel learned of their whereabouts , he began to hunt them down with the aid of his yeomen . |
| 7 | Ellen screamed and was instantly seized by the other man , who , laughing at her wild struggles , began to force her down to the floor . |
| 8 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 9 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
| 10 | They offered to take her down to the sea , so off they went — accompanied by the Dares ' three dogs , hideous mongrels with hearts of gold . |
| 11 | Thankfully there were no injuries and he and Ave Barlow managed to make it down to the best of the mountain safely . |
| 12 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |
| 13 | To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church . |
| 14 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 15 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 16 | He did not know if she had written it down in the letter , or if the cake was to be his punishment for all the bad things he had done . |
| 17 | But I just said put them down in the book . |
| 18 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 19 | It was very hard indeed to believe she had walked in there with a wolf creature and that he had drawn her down onto the forest floor and made love to her … |
| 20 | Still she could hear her own cries , as she had begged to be released — but nay , he had flung her down on the stone floor and leaned over her . |
| 21 | And was still wondering some half an hour later when Rosa had settled her down for the night but frustration , sharper than any pangs of hunger , was keeping her awake . |
| 22 | Ralph had laid it down in the 1950s . |
| 23 | She heard the door close behind her , but not before the sound of laughter had followed her down towards the lift . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Familiarity with the voices that had haunted him down through the years had encouraged a bravado that was little like his real self . |
| 26 | And he had taken them down into the Southern Ocean , not as far as we were going , but far enough to be in amongst the ice , circumnavigating the whole land mass of Antarctica in waters no man had ever sailed before . |
| 27 | They had taken him down in the lift and he had stood there looking at her face , peaceful and still . |
| 28 | Rose had noticed this and she had put it down to the awe and respect in which the man she so loved was held , and she was loath to see differently now . |
| 29 | On that occasion she had put it down to the letter from Doreen , but now she began to wonder if the real cause of his irritation had stemmed from the fact that he had embraced her . |
| 30 | Next , I had to get it down to the sea . |