Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would send it swooping over and under hers , or dive it down to the sands while I stood on a dune cliff , pulling the kite down to nick tall towers of sand I 'd built , then pulling up again , the kite trailing a spray of sand through the air from the collapsing tower . |
| 2 | ‘ For take-off and landing , each propeller works like a helicopter rotor , pulling the plane into the sky or letting it down on the helipad . |
| 3 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 4 | Jake drained his coffee-cup and laid it down on the saucer . |
| 5 | Guido drained his champagne glass and laid it down on the wall beside him . |
| 6 | ‘ I gathered it up , ’ he was to say , ‘ I actually scooped up the evil hungering thing in my arms and carried it into the house and laid it down by the fire . ’ |
| 7 | Then suddenly closing his eyes and clenching his fist and bringing it down on the counter , he said , ‘ Whatever you want to do , for God 's sake ! |
| 8 | She took off her jacket and slung it down on the settee . |
| 9 | The lines particularly can be more convenient than transfers because you can simply follow the original artwork like following a map , unwinding from the reel and sticking it down onto the film as you go along — though it can be fiddly on dense or complicated boards . |
| 10 | I think they 've all got their own washing machines on the ward and that sort of thing , whereas we had to do it by hand and then bundle it all up and send it down to the laundry . |
| 11 | All that remains is to wrap the covering material round and glue it down to the boards . |
| 12 | Taczek hoisted his fist and smacked it down on the table with a hollow bang . |
| 13 | ‘ He got what he wanted and slammed it down on the counter . |
| 14 | Cranston stuck his red , bulbous nose into a tankard , took one slurp and slammed it down on the table . |
| 15 | Sir John drained his tankard and slammed it down on the table . |
| 16 | Surprisingly , Cranston agreed , drained the cup and slammed it down on the table . |
| 17 | Vologsky finished the bottle off and slammed it down upon the table . |
| 18 | In other words , if you pay approximately £50 a quarter for your telephone rental then round it up to £60 ( it helps if you overestimate expenditure ) and break it down to the monthly sum of £20 . |
| 19 | Therapist : ‘ You say you feel awful at times ; let's look at that and try and break it down into the physical sensations you feel , the thoughts you have , and how it effects your behaviour . |
| 20 | You argue with one another and put it down to the fact that people who are prejudiced are ignorant . |
| 21 | See I could , I could just take it round the edge of your carpet , you know , just , if er , if you want me to , if you want me to I 'll , I can lift the edge of your carpet and put it down onto the floor |
| 22 | The chemist drew a chair from his dispensary at the rear of the shop and put it down beside the soaps and talcum powders , the bath salts and the loofahs . |
| 23 | She took hold of it and put it down on the floor . |
| 24 | Carew folded the paper and put it down on the cluttered tray beside him . |
| 25 | From one of the voluminous pockets he produced a bottle of Scotch and put it down on the table . |
| 26 | And just filled a net basket of eggs and put it down in the in the water and the water flowed through it kind of . |
| 27 | He gave her the rake and she went vigorously at the hay while he plaited a grass rope to put round a burden and heft it down to the byre . |
| 28 | But Bush waited , and then he took something out of his pocket and threw it down on the desk . |
| 29 | He lay quietly , with a comfortable feeling of pleasant anticipation of the day before him , imagining his mother in her pale blue Sunday outfit getting her European car out of the garage and manoeuvring it down to the United church . |
| 30 | the man said , lifting the card machine from behind the counter and slamming it down on the top . |