Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make the patchwork on the shells by spreading the glue over a small area , laying on scraps of cloth and pressing them down with the damp cloth . |
| 2 | The man holding Connelly 's arm pushed it forward , forcing it down onto the largest of the electric rings , holding it there . |
| 3 | And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent . |
| 4 | Even when reviews do exist , tracking them down for a particular title can be difficult . |
| 5 | Incineration is the most appropriate disposal method for many wastes which can be rendered harmless only by breaking them down through the controlled use of heat . |
| 6 | It needed people to work all night sending out subscription copies , getting them down to the all-night post office . |
| 7 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 8 | He poured out so much passion that she melted against him , completely willing , enslaved , and his hand moved impatiently to the zip of her dress , moving it down until the cool night air on her skin made her shiver . |
| 9 | It can involve redrawing the work to show a different scale of projection , or breaking it down into a general drawing or a series of drawings . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 12 | Then she carried the basket to the washing line and unpegged the clothes rapidly , chucking them down in a windblown tangle ( Ella folded things as she took them out of the tumble drier . |
| 13 | We 're dropping it down in a different place , but the reaction will be the same ’ . |
| 14 | They are reclaiming rock from the strutting , posturing macho Metal peacocks and the fey , fumbling , characterless boys and dragging it down into a cathartic sexual/emotional hell for a slice of long-overdue feminine judgement . |
| 15 | As regards yeomen the statistics serve chiefly to emphasise the difficulty of pinning them down to a precise definition . |
| 16 | She forced herself to eat some more dry biscuits and chocolate , washing them down with a small amount of water . |
| 17 | By the time we get to the jarv tracks I am over it , putting it down to a poor night 's sleep and a wearing day that have combined so that I am feeling the cold more than I normally do . |
| 18 | Then he sprang , bearing her down into the trampled snow only a few paces from Yet 's body . |
| 19 | This strange , remote , eagle creature , whose body was bathed in incandescence from the fire , except that it was not quite the fire ; whose eyes were dark with passion , and whose arms , strong and safe , were enveloping her , and laying her down on the thick fur rugs before the fire … |
| 20 | ‘ And I 'm quite sure that you are exactly my style ! ’ he added smoothly , removing the champagne glass from her trembling hand and setting it down on a nearby table . |
| 21 | Last of his stick to leave the C130 , Grant 's rate of descent was half again as fast as the rest , taking him past the others , and plummeting him down in a whirling corkscrew . |
| 22 | She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time . |
| 23 | Inside her , there was a small life forming , something precious and wonderful ; but there was also a deadness in her , weighing her down like a physical burden , a burden that grew harder to bear with every passing day . |
| 24 | Ensure good contact by pegging in place with wire hoops or weighting it down with a few pebbles . |