Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] down to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allow the applied force gradually to separate your knees , driving them down to the mat . |
| 2 | The last recommendation was seized upon by critics who calculate that storing the most frequently-used books high up in the four towers will create a considerable time delay in transporting them down to the reading areas . |
| 3 | A moment later , with a curt ‘ Follow me ’ , he was leading her down to the end of the corridor , then along a short passageway off to the right . |
| 4 | Charlie , leading her down to the trash and making the introduction ( ‘ I know you ‘ ve made plans now , and I feel kind of responsible so I talked to one of the other girls . |
| 5 | She came to stand close and he took her hand , pulling her down to the settee with him . |
| 6 | Pulling it down to the earth |
| 7 | On the day that Wilson was elected to office , he telephoned me , tracking me down to a restaurant in London , to enquire what to do about the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra . |
| 8 | The miners themselves probably found some sort of lodgings in the area but also spent most of their time living in small draughty shelters or " hutts " built near to their work places only severe weather shifting them down to the valley bottoms . |
| 9 | The inclusion of sculptural elements into a given context makes one more conscious of time , not by slowing it down to a state of meditation , but rather by particularising time through the experience of the work in context . |
| 10 | I 'm breaking it down to the cake again . |
| 11 | Old bushes can be brought back to vigorous life by cutting them down to a foot from the ground at the end of winter . |
| 12 | Cutting it down to the bone |
| 13 | I managed some breakfast , met up with Colin 's coach Malcolm Arnold who was taking me down to the track , and we walked in the sunshine to where the buses waited to run the shuttle to the Olympic Stadium . |
| 14 | Alexi Sayle says it will be a chance to ride your bike properly instead of taking it down to the chinese takeaway … |
| 15 | At first she 'd given no thought to missing for a month , putting it down to the trauma of losing Pa , but by the time nothing showed for the third month running there could be no doubt that the worst had happened . |
| 16 | You can use paper of similar thickness but unless you stick it in some way to the faces it is difficult to keep it in position when assembling the cores into the bobbin and bolting it down to the board . |
| 17 | For a moment Henry thought she was going to hit him , and then , instead , she seized the receiver from him and , sweeping it down to the floor with her she poured love , support , tenderness and quietness down the line . |