Example sentences of "[vb past] it down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taczek hoisted his fist and smacked it down on the table with a hollow bang . |
| 2 | well , somebody found it down by the river just at the back of where they live so it must have been somebody round about |
| 3 | We found it down by the Seal . |
| 4 | Rumour had it the owner of the Gazi burned it down for the insurance money . |
| 5 | And she slammed it down on the desk . |
| 6 | ‘ He got what he wanted and slammed it down on the counter . |
| 7 | Cranston stuck his red , bulbous nose into a tankard , took one slurp and slammed it down on the table . |
| 8 | Sir John drained his tankard and slammed it down on the table . |
| 9 | Surprisingly , Cranston agreed , drained the cup and slammed it down on the table . |
| 10 | Vologsky finished the bottle off and slammed it down upon the table . |
| 11 | Returning to the bedroom she crept back to the bed , raised the knife and without a moment 's thought drove it down into the sleeper 's chest . |
| 12 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 13 | But Bush waited , and then he took something out of his pocket and threw it down on the desk . |
| 14 | Evidently deciding that prudery was the better part of valour , I hotfooted it down to the bedroom again in time to witness half the ceiling crashing in flames on to the bed I had been sleeping in moments before . |
| 15 | He dumped it down behind the boat-house and went back towards the house , then after a bit he came down again with a picture , and dumped that , then he took the bag and made off up the path with it . ’ |
| 16 | Making a fist Michael smashed it down on the desk in front of him , causing their empty coffee cups to rattle in their saucers . |
| 17 | She slapped it down on the table , spilling some of its contents . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Artemis reached up and took it down off the shelf . |
| 20 | The next day , Bobbie put Peter 's engine in a box and took it down to the railway . |
| 21 | I said there was to be a sale , but I would ask the solicitor ; and afterwards , when he came to take the barometer away , he took it down from the wall very , very gently . |
| 22 | I took it down from the shelf in my locker and went out of doors . |
| 23 | There 's Black Gemmell Pearce bit long to Rozario good ball that , oh he almost chested it down into the path of Stone . |
| 24 | She took off her jacket and slung it down on the settee . |
| 25 | Guido drained his champagne glass and laid it down on the wall beside him . |
| 26 | He sucked fruitlessly on his now extinct pipe , laid it down on the table beside him , got up , and turning his back on his visitors , wandered over to the window . |
| 27 | Jake drained his coffee-cup and laid it down on the saucer . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | I got it down from the top of the wardrobe . |
| 30 | 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 . |