Example sentences of "[verb] down every [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Do n't slow down every time , Loc , he told his driver curtly in French . |
| 2 | Four other girls , that 's right and of course there were housemaids there to do the work and er yes housemaids and er and er you know and in the , in the kitchen , you see , there was the chef and er a cook , the kitchen maid and er a young man , a boy , well just left school to scrub the tables down and do the floors and that sort of thing and er and whi and er while I , of course I had to go down every day to type , to see what the chef said , what was on the menu and type it , type out the menus , you see , that was one of my jobs and er and if let me think , yes there was quite a number of staff , that 's just in the kitchen |
| 3 | And erm my father and another lad who was working out in the had to go Called Michael , had to go down every evening to pump water for the the animal . |
| 4 | The next stage is to jot down every idea or word which comes into your mind which you associate with it . |
| 5 | That 's right and put your paddle in that and you scull you had to come down every time and many a time people 'd learn that that paddle will come out , but once you got the knack of it you could do it one hand , cos you was cutting down all the time like that 's what it was . |
| 6 | Macca and Strach ) was ineffective , Hodge ran around like a headless chicken trying to pull down every Crewe player he came near and White and Deane were not in the game . |
| 7 | Nor will the car break down every week . |
| 8 | The Southern Health Board says the painstaking search is necessary to track down every patient who underwent invasive surgery by the junior houseman , who assisted at dozens of operations . |
| 9 | Some are busily scribbling down every word she utters , others are watching her quizzically , chewing the ends of their ballpoints , and those who looked bored at the outset are now staring vacantly out of the window or diligently chiselling their initials into the lecture-room furniture . |
| 10 | The spoiler 's axe their shade devours , And cuts down every tree . |
| 11 | I mean , and we were going down every day to see her when she was |
| 12 | like , you know what I was like , all through school and me A levels I was still going down every day and everything |
| 13 | So it was done away with and another material substituted that could be washed down every day . |
| 14 | " They will never learn to get out of the way if you slow down every time , " he said sharply . |
| 15 | She got to put down every day look there 's a sample for a week |
| 16 | I was insufficiently consistent to put down every nuance of every argument . ’ |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the English soldiery hunted down every Irishman suspected of helping the French and put them to death in a variety of ingenious fashions . |
| 18 | But from what he 'd heard it all broke down every year and had to be started up again in the spring , and — ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said . |
| 19 | The whole business of listening to lectures is discussed elsewhere ( chapter 3 ) but it is worth emphasising here that note-making is not concerned with taking down every word that a lecturer says . |
| 20 | It was a release because she just went down every day . |
| 21 | She went down every day . |
| 22 | The runs were hosed down every day — which meant the dogs got very wet feet and the little ones got wet tummies . |
| 23 | Worldwide knowledge that we live on Island Earth could help us escape the fate of the Easter Islanders , who died in violence and cannibalism under the sightless gaze of their monumental statues , because they had cut down every tree . |
| 24 | but the whole point is you can put down every detail in a letter for them to read , to put on file , ca n't you ? |
| 25 | Students in the having mode of existence will … write down every word in their looseleaf notebook so that later on , they can memorise their notes and thus pass an examination . |
| 26 | Bird-killing is a popular sport in Malta , with some 250,000 song thrushes , and 1,000 honey buzzards , shot down every year , according to the International Council for Bird Preservation . |
| 27 | We 'll send a copy to your manager , and a copy will come to you , so that you and your manager can sit down every month and discuss your next month 's business plan . |
| 28 | Now just imagine the outcry if Council had the power to close down every organisation , stop funding every organisation that criticised it and reviewed its actions . |
| 29 | If you need some creative inspiration — which direction to take in your career , which city to move to , how to tackle a relationship problem , where to go on holiday — then for a maximum of twenty minutes , scribble down every idea that comes into your head . |
| 30 | They first of all say they want local government to be more responsible , to be more trusted , to have more freedom , I then give them that freedom and then they complain that I 'm not telling local government what to do and I do n't intend to lay down every detail of what they should do . |