Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earl brought in a yellow legal pad with a number of acronyms on it in boxes , and North put it down on the table ; at that point , his secure telephone went off , and he had to ask Miller to leave . |
| 2 | He left , and Fran flung herself down on the bed , pummelling the pillow with her fists in a sudden explosion of temper . |
| 3 | ‘ Charles , you remember — Juliet and Miles invited you down for lunch . ’ |
| 4 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 5 | Simon and Marian laid him down on a couch of deer-skins . |
| 6 | At last the sun began to set and Agrippa took us down to the courtyard to watch the other great Scottish lords arrive . |
| 7 | They did n't enter the room he had come from , but Travis led her down to one she had rarely used . |
| 8 | She sobbed and fought and screamed but Martin pinned her down with his new strength . |