Example sentences of "it down [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slogans were in ill-formed , illiterate script and Owen at first put it down as the work of children ; not the children who went to the kuttub , who were infants , but older youths . |
| 2 | There 's Black Gemmell Pearce bit long to Rozario good ball that , oh he almost chested it down into the path of Stone . |
| 3 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 6 | She put it down on the floor beside her guitar . |
| 7 | They set it down on the floor in the middle of the room , as the T'ang had instructed them earlier , then backed away , heads lowered . |
| 8 | Mr Gillis seemed to delight in slamming it down on the top of the tousled head below . |
| 9 | I wrote it down on the top of the table with my pencil . |
| 10 | Guido drained his champagne glass and laid it down on the wall beside him . |
| 11 | Making a fist Michael smashed it down on the desk in front of him , causing their empty coffee cups to rattle in their saucers . |
| 12 | He reached into his gaming box and brought forth a piece , setting it down on the board with a satisfied air . |
| 13 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 14 | Julia got out of bed , took the tray back from Annunziata , put it down on the chest of drawers and hugged her . |
| 15 | He set it down on the bit of rug . |
| 16 | Well put it down on the table for a minute then . |
| 17 | Taczek hoisted his fist and smacked it down on the table with a hollow bang . |
| 18 | Curval took out the slide — it seemed not as carefully as before — and set it down on the table beside him . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I carried a tray across and set it down on the table in the window . |
| 21 | She put it down on the table in the hall and went upstairs smiling . |
| 22 | I see myself putting it down on the table in front of me at the Assessment Group and the papers slipping loose … |
| 23 | He sipped at his wine again , then put it down on the arm of his chair and , keeping a finger and thumb on the stem , twisted it one way , then the other . |
| 24 | He took a flashlight from his pocket to shine it down on the face of the petrified child who clung to the side of her mother . |
| 25 | After the third ‘ Carry On ’ , the cast had been offered a profit-sharing scheme — and had all turned it down on the advice of their agents , who thought they would be better off getting increased salaries . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He puts it down at the base of the new li ga — the stripped pine trunk that all the men brought back from the forest and erected early this morning — and pours some water over the lamb 's head and in a stripe down its back to the base of the tail . |
| 28 | ( f ) Airspace and underground It is a fundamental proposition that in the absence of indications to the contrary a conveyance of land includes not only everything on the surface but everything beneath it down to the centre of the earth and the space directly above ( Grigsby v Melville [ 1973 ] 3 All ER 455 ) . |
| 29 | I dragged it down to the water on the launching trailer , and pushed off . |
| 30 | 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 . |