Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [pron] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lift them from the elbows , and them drop them down to the floor . |
| 2 | No I went back and got in the car and was fiddling about and I wrote it down on a matchbox you see . |
| 3 | I gave it a coat yesterday morning and then it hardened up and I rubbed it down with a bit of fine wire wool today |
| 4 | And I brought it down to half a dozen staff . |
| 5 | That surprised me and I put it down to Christmas and a slight slackening of my efforts . |
| 6 | And I put it down to having a fairly bad circulation and I 'm get getting my circulation back , using a product called and going on this er hair programme and my hair is beginning |
| 7 | I howl , and I throw myself down on the floor . |
| 8 | I got two bottles of Scotch and I hid one down by the dishwasher . ’ |
| 9 | Siobhan Redmond I 'd seen once in a revue by Marcella for St Andrews University and I tracked her down in Glasgow and asked her would she like to do a show for buttons for the newly opened Tron Theatre , who were interested . |
| 10 | wax jackets but they 're a waistcoat and I 've , I 've ordered one really just to see what it 's , it 's like , because erm at the moment I can , I just try and get a bit closer to the door , I think we 'll go round again , erm cos in the , in my club book at the moment , I , I can get twenty percent off and which brings it down to , it 's twe well say thirty pound so twenty per cent off it brings me down to erm brings it down to twenty four pounds and then erm with my commission off that brings it down to just under twenty one pound |
| 11 | Ruth saw thrown spears hang in the air as if floating in water , and she thrust herself down into the grass , her face in her hands so as not to see any more . |
| 12 | And she slammed it down on the desk . |
| 13 | And she sent me down to the Headmistress and she says , ‘ You 've been drinking , have n't you ? |
| 14 | It was a charming letter , a well-managed mixture of humility and boastfulness , and she sent it down to be typed with a feeling of smugness . |
| 15 | It was a glimmering he had , but no more than that , and she cast him down from the height of her knowledge . |
| 16 | What was more , there had been a growing number of mice in her house of late and she put it down to the age of the animal . |
| 17 | Vaguely , she became aware that this man was having an effect on her , and she put it down to the fact that she was unaccustomed to associating with such a devastating member of the opposite sex . |
| 18 | He wrote it in two weeks , and we took it down to Richmond Palace and played it before the Queen on February the 20th . |
| 19 | And they got it down to , not the bricks but the sand that the bricks was made of because |
| 20 | The details were all there ; they 'd used a knife , and they brought it down on his face four times . |
| 21 | And they take the cartridge out and they send it down to Cardiff which is where Mel is |
| 22 | Look , if , if somebody charges you three hundred pound , and you say that 's too much and you complain and they knock it down to two fifty , but they say but we want you to pay fifty pounds on something else , extra , do you think the two fifty 's fair , eh ? |
| 23 | and they fetched me down at the hospital |
| 24 | You see and they called it the , the church of Saint Constantine , and it shifted from here and they built one down at the and then they shifted from the to the present site in about seventeen forty . |
| 25 | And he flung himself down on his bed , his hands over his ears . |
| 26 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 27 | Well , ten minutes later it was still up to me knees , I said , I ca n't keep this up and he shouted something down to somebody else , who shouted to somebody else , Put your sprags back lads . |
| 28 | Anyway he looked like that he had a red car and he was sitting in the car and he put them down like that and they were like that in the car and after I thought I should 've popped at her house see if she 's wearing that in the house I thought you git . |
| 29 | A tallish hummock loomed , and he pulled her down into the wet grass behind it . |
| 30 | As his mouth descended hungrily upon hers and he swept her down among the bracken , Tamar succumbed to a passion far greater than she had ever known before . |