Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [pron] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've more or less pinned it down to coming from the the drainage systems . |
| 2 | He saw Rosie stretch up , catch the damp pants between her teeth and slowly draw them down to her grimy sacking , intent on ripping them to shreds . |
| 3 | She bought a pine table from a junk shop and slowly sandpapered it down in the garden , and then sealed it , something she 'd never done before , never even thought of doing before . |
| 4 | I felt disinclined actually to hand to him the piece of paper I was holding , and so put it down on the end of his bed . |
| 5 | You have to be able to hold it up there and perhaps put it down on paper or apply it . |
| 6 | He pulled a low seat from under the bed and gently eased her down to it . |
| 7 | But a few moments later , in Simon 's cottage , when he pulled up a chair to the fire and gently pressed her down into it , she managed to say , ‘ You — knew … |
| 8 | and just bring it down to where you where you want it . |
| 9 | Yes it erm you know , Martin 's done well , he 's got up and just nodded it down for Andy and erm he 's took it well ; a little touch and he 's just finished it very well , so you know , I 'm pleased for him . |
| 10 | Jenny Weston , 34 , claimed Colin Webb made a barrage of unrelenting sexual demands and once pinned her down on a hotel bed . |
| 11 | So I intended to try flying her for the assembly , and carefully got her down to her flying weight . |
| 12 | Out of the kindness of their enormous hearts , the giants had lifted her out of her icy misery and carefully put her down in the warmer waters where she was to be found today . |
| 13 | Tavalouze marched forward and gracelessly threw himself down on the cushions . |
| 14 | In his second defence of the title , against the man he had beaten to win it in June , Wharton 's awesome blows cut Carr above his left eye and then had him down for a count of eight and unable to defend himself when he regained his feet . |
| 15 | A wave caught the mast , lifting it high and then slamming it down on the cabin roof . |
| 16 | I told her this , and then wrote it down on the assessment sheet . |
| 17 | Looks like you 'll have to sort of like put it up for a day and then take it down for a week and put it back in again . |
| 18 | ‘ I like thinking something through and then setting it down on paper . |
| 19 | Station Officer Alan Bridle , from Canning Place 's Green Watch , said : ‘ When we arrived I got up on to the roof and then lowered myself down into the centre . |
| 20 | In the wild , a fish can get around this problem by absorbing much bigger molecules and then breaking them down in the gut wall or bloodstream . |
| 21 | Molly carried her a little way towards the house and then set her down on the pavement by the front door . |
| 22 | She came to know instinctively the kind of candid , vivid anecdote that found favour with him , the sort of thing that made him chuckle with delight , and sometimes scribble it down in a note-book . |
| 23 | Now I won that game , losing just two ‘ pieces ’ , but only after I left with the comeliest ‘ piece ’ of all , a wench from the imperial harem , did Suleiman discover that I had cheated and publicly marked me down for death . |
| 24 | This time he did n't throw her down with a fury but gently laid her down among the downy pillows and started to strip off his shirt . |