Example sentences of "down [prep] [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When the lawsuit was beginning , before he could possibly have known about it , he wrote this down for me on a bit of paper . ’ |
| 2 | By the time my father could sit down with me in a pub , slightly drunk , tell me and my friends about Real Life , crack a joke about a Pakistani that silenced a whole table once , and talk about the farm labourer 's — his grandfather 's — journey up from Eye in Suffolk working on the building of the Great North Western Railway to Rawtenstall on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border , I was doing history at Sussex , and knew more than he did about the date and timing of journeys like that . |
| 3 | He ordered a pastis for himself and a pineau de Charentes for Sabine , then sat down with her at a table in the corner . |
| 4 | Then , gently , he pulled her down with him into a nest of long fragrant grasses . |
| 5 | Ferryman had kipped down with him for a while , till one night , turning over in his sleep , Jackie had given him such a clout with the iron boot it nearly took his hip off . |
| 6 | She grabbed her mug of tea , gripping it in both hands and staring down into it with an expression of such misery that one could almost imagine the dead girl 's face reflected in the surface of the liquid . |
| 7 | The window frame hung drunkenly across the cupboard in the corner with a piece of glass held together by the criss-crossed brown paper hanging down from it like a flag . |
| 8 | I think of another man , to whom I had said something about Jesus Christ while marching down alongside him to an army parade ! |
| 9 | Finally I slumped down outside it for a while and went to bed myself . |
| 10 | But Vivienne came down on me like a dragon . |
| 11 | I made the mistake of criticizing you and she came down on me like a ton of bricks . ’ |
| 12 | He went straight over to Brian , saying , ‘ So , you want escape ? ’ and started raining blows down on him with a stick . |
| 13 | ‘ Now I wo n't come down on him like a ton of bricks if he misses chances but I do n't want to see him becoming uptight and letting other aspects of his game suffer if things do n't go right — as against Norway . |
| 14 | And the committee could have come down on him like a ton of bricks . |
| 15 | She was bearing down on him like a bull in full charge when he jumped the wide steps and with a cry of terror threw himself against the front door of the house . |
| 16 | If anyone was coming here to do some subversive overthrowing , everyone 'd be down on him like a pound of bricks as soon as he answered ‘ Yes ’ . ’ |
| 17 | The woman looked down on them for a moment ; not seeming to see Lucy at all , she was looking at Josie . |
| 18 | So there was bad feeling from the start : the tourists resentful of the Swedes , who looked down on them as a bunch of grubby anarchists . |
| 19 | So , the Bizango will come down on them like a ton of bricks if they get the chance , for both the unauthorized zombis and the rabble rousing . ’ |
| 20 | The arch of the sky bore down on her like a chain , and the sounds of the camp returned , the shouts and jokes of the Englishmen , the ceaseless crash of the axe for wood and more wood to build . |
| 21 | Yussuf bore down on her in a fury . |
| 22 | Isabel had one quick glimpse of the fire smouldering in fitzAlan 's eyes as he lifted his head , then his mouth came down on hers in a kiss of such male dominance that she went completely limp . |
| 23 | ‘ Mother Francis will be down on us like a ton of bricks . ’ |
| 24 | We do n't want no bleedin' bullets flyin' about , guv , if yer do n't mind , it 'll bring the rozzers down on us like a ton of bricks , even in this fog . |
| 25 | But we have to do it , they 'd be absolutely down on us like a ton of bricks if we did n't . |
| 26 | In Dennant v. Skinner ( 1948 K.B. ) the buyer had a van knocked down to him at an auction . |
| 27 | The connotations of this in the creation of manhood were made clear by Baden Powell , founder of the Scout movement , who observed that masturbation checks the semen from getting its full chance of making the strong , manly man : ‘ You are throwing away the seed that has been handed down to you as a trust instead of keeping it and ripening it for bringing a son to you later on . ’ |
| 28 | The , if any of the ladies would like to go down to the village or anybody , the church is open and I think there 's somebody there who would welcome you to show you round the church down in the village which , I know , during the war years at different times , quite a lot of you chaps did attend and er so we do hope you will see and , and of course later on I hope you 'll be coming down to mine for a cup of tea . |
| 29 | ‘ A coroner and a Dominican come to visit me , ’ he announced in mock wonderment , and squatted down beside them on a stool . |
| 30 | ‘ Changed days , Piper ! ’ remarked Jimmy , as I sat down beside him on a bale of hay . |