Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] down [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He heard her sigh deeply , the way she always did when he let her down in some way . |
2 | That dropped me down from second place . ’ |
3 | Then he hosed him down with warm water until all traces of the beck had been removed . |
4 | When children came running to them for sweets , they scythed them down with automatic fire . |
5 | I talked him down at one point |
6 | He came through the door and he backed Cati against the rough wall of the hideout and rammed his pelvis against her stomach and pinned her down with one hand flat against her chest and with the other drew his belt through the loops of his soldier 's jacket and slashed her across the face with the buckle doubled against the leather . |
7 | The raging young lad raised the chopper above his head and brought it down with tremendous force . |
8 | took it down to that shop and er , it was , I got it from there and it was ten pound ! |
9 | He walked slowly , however , to make the journey as long as possible , and put her down on dry land . |
10 | I wrote them down for each person . |
11 | ‘ I saw it at the doctor 's on the board — an ’ I wrote it down after last week — I did n't know what else to do . |
12 | At the sink he filled a cup with cold water , drank it down in one gulp , refilled it and handed it to Frankie without comment . |
13 | A broad Land-rover track led us down to Hard Level where lived poor Adam Baker who was fined for not burying his daughter in a woollen shroud " according to the law " . |
14 | Sam popped several coloured capsules into his mouth and washed them down with another slug of firewater . |
15 | The feasters attacked great joints of beef and mutton and venison , picked at pheasant and partridge , munched apples and pears and sweet onions , nibbled at cheese and rye bread , and washed it down with more beer . |