Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] down [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually whittled it down to eighteen thousand and his successors have since reduced the number even more dramatically . |
| 2 | ‘ We eventually tracked her down at this dreadful apartment block . |
| 3 | By the time we got her address and tracked her down to some miserable tower block in Hackney , discovered she did n't know any English and found someone who could speak Gujarati , it was late afternoon . ’ |
| 4 | Tascam made it with a bit of the old ‘ Come All Ye ’ and mouths fell open ‘ aghast ’ when Mr Magic , Sam Woods , placed his assistant in a cabinet , broke it down into five separate pieces , and put her back together again , except that now her head replaced her knee-caps ! |
| 5 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 6 | from Budgen 's , when erm ah , you know at Chris , Christmas they had it down at one seventy nine a pound , did n't they ? |