Example sentences of "[verb] them down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She does n't avoid the painful issues that divide us — but , as few writers can , she makes us laugh at them and bring them down to size . |
| 2 | ‘ Then bring them down to Central Gardens , where we hope to have the biggest can collection ever seen in the region or perhaps the country . ’ |
| 3 | so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty |
| 4 | If not I 've only got to put them up in the attic and bring them down in three month 's time . |
| 5 | A very simple way of collecting examples of people talking is to sit them down in front of the camera and get them to talk to it . |
| 6 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 7 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 8 | They 've got to condense them down into to micro size , you know like the micro chip |
| 9 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 10 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 11 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
| 12 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 13 | Stooping , he grabbed up the letters and stuffed them down behind the chair cushion just as the door opened and his sister walked in . |
| 14 | Arrange these around the edge of the cake , sticking them down with dots of jam . |
| 15 | We have grown too good , kind and sensitive to mow them down with machine guns , starve them out of existence . |
| 16 | Pat and Gabriel Horn would code the brain samples and send them down to me for analysis . |
| 17 | We 'll have to say sorry Bill you know w send them down to Dave if Dave 's got time to pull 'em in he will do , if not we 'll you know we 'll have to reply negative . |
| 18 | Galway will still go in as underdogs — an unusual position for them — but one that should suit them down to the ground . |
| 19 | He lifted her fingers to the head of his parrot and stroked them down along its back . |
| 20 | I and er told Lindsey if she 'd ever any problems never to write them down to a friend |
| 21 | Griffith now heated his rods in the middle and drew them down to thinner and thinner fibres which after cooling he also broke in tension . |
| 22 | We shift them down to the so they could n't get onto the cultivated land . |
| 23 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) in California , for instance , was once a naval air station , where in more innocent days the ground crews cleaned engines by hosing them down with carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethane ( TCE ) . |
| 24 | They felt that he had let them down in front of others . |
| 25 | To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church . |
| 26 | THE Tranmere Rovers players were so high on good publicity before this match that their manager , John King , said he would have to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 27 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 28 | Allow the applied force gradually to separate your knees , driving them down to the mat . |
| 29 | If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter . |
| 30 | I 'll give you some paper just to jot them down in cos you can cos you |