Example sentences of "it down [prep] the [noun] of " 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 | Mr Gillis seemed to delight in slamming it down on the top of the tousled head below . |
| 7 | I wrote it down on the top of the table with my pencil . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Julia got out of bed , took the tray back from Annunziata , put it down on the chest of drawers and hugged her . |
| 10 | He set it down on the bit of rug . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ( 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 ) . |
| 17 | Shannon had , rather uncharitably , put it down to the lure of the man 's fame — people simply liked to be close to the famous . |
| 18 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 19 | ‘ Put it down to the movement of the ship . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Again I put it down to the stresses of presenting a live programme five days a week . |
| 22 | Insiders put it down to the pressure of competing for six and seven figure salaries . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He took her hand again , guiding it down within the folds of his pau , then heard her gasp as her hand closed on him ; saw her eyes go down and look . |
| 25 | I got it down from the top of the wardrobe . |