Example sentences of "down and [verb] [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've cut it down and agreed I pay the arrears back at a pound a week . |
| 2 | ‘ Or do n't tell me that all those questions about Ryan were simply so that you could track him down and make him pay the money back ? ’ |
| 3 | Well you 've got to put your you 've got to put your hand down and hope you turn the rest turn up with the rest of the box . |
| 4 | The way we must do this is by working together to get our costs down and ensuring we provide the quality of service out customers need at the right price . |
| 5 | I remember David started crying but Ralph would not back down and say we deserved the money , or to have some of it , so we just left them at the Brummel Club before doing their thing . |
| 6 | And I would rush to the window and look down and see you turning the corner to cross the square below , or walk round it to the hotel door . |
| 7 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 8 | People may actually be right but that is not an excuse for smugness , and non-interest in what anybody else thinks except to knock them down and force them to acknowledge the superiority of one 's own views . |