Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thatcher never laid out her ideal world for everyone to shoot down — she and her cronies unveiled it bit by beautifully packaged bit . |
| 2 | They will be conscious of the camera but if this is something they normally do , and if you handle the occasion unobtrusively , allowing some run-in time for everyone to settle down , you can get useable examples of language in action . |
| 3 | He is also sceptical or the argument that parasuicides and the unemployed are linked by personality disorders which make it difficult for them to hold down jobs . |
| 4 | It is hoping its embrace of a wider field of players , coupled with a commitment to encourage competing implementations , will find enough favour with the Open Software Foundation and its key members , IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp , Hitachi Ltd , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme and Groupe Bull SA , for them to lay down their guns . |
| 5 | The only thing I can say is for them to lay down their arms and stop it right now . |
| 6 | All of these factors weaken the ties that such businesses have with the communities in which they are located and make it less difficult for them to close down and/or relocate if and when business conditions deteriorate in one country relative to other countries . |
| 7 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 8 | The old Frenchman motioned for them to sit down and continue with their meal as he opened a cupboard and took out a bottle and two glasses . |
| 9 | Walking with his gauche , bouncy tread , his shoulders hunched , Nicola 's husband led Blanche and Dexter down the steps into the kitchen and gestured for them to sit down round the kitchen table . |
| 10 | Those people will always find bad in what you do , but I 'm certainly not going to go out of my way to avoid being a subject for them to beat down on . ’ |
| 11 | Well , er the C B I and other bodies are pressing for them to come down at once , er John Major has said it 's only a question of time . |
| 12 | Simmer potatoes slowly to reduce any tendency for them to break down during cooking . |
| 13 | For homeowners who have negative equity — where the value of their house is less than the mortgage — the Chancellor ratified earlier proposals to make it easier for them to trade down . |
| 14 | Again it took a little while for them to calm down and when they had , Bartlemas , with mock solemnity , handed the envelope to Jacqui . |
| 15 | How parents can spend all that money for them to run down on the chest paddling with their hands on the dirty pavement ! |
| 16 | It 's no good to them , this land if sold in the on this particular piece of land , they 've sold all the viable access off to the residents of the have n't they ? so there , there 's no right of way really for them to get down there , and it should be cheap . |
| 17 | and er I was just wondering we we ought to do something , I mean these poor old dears have adhered to what we have said and facilities for them to get down onto to the er the . |
| 18 | Now , these folds become more prominent , rise up , and approach each other , the sheet between them sinking down . |
| 19 | Ewa airfield was attacked and defended by Taylor and Welch who between them shot down six aircraft . |
| 20 | Another recurrent crisis , during university years , was the cerebral accident — a subarachnoid haemorrhage unambiguous enough for me to sit down with pen and I paper and put my affairs in order . |
| 21 | I indicated a chair and she nodded that it was OK for me to sit down . |
| 22 | Of course , he 's terribly anxious for me to settle down out there , marry Cora-Beth and become an American citizen , the way his father did years ago . |
| 23 | But she 'd taken an instant liking to you and for years she 'd been agitating for me to settle down . ’ |
| 24 | And he stopped and luckily there was just enough room for me to slow down and just go between them . |
| 25 | Its tunnels were almost big enough for me to go down , and sticking my head down one , I had my first smell of badger — and , of course , completely ruined my chance of seeing any animals that day . |
| 26 | Oh for me to go down there . |
| 27 | It was extremely difficult for me to write down one good characteristic about myself , let alone ten , and it was quite evident that whereas I saw myself as perpetually black , I saw my wife , Joyce as shining white and a lot of other people in the same colour . |
| 28 | As we pulled up at the lights , he leaped out , kicked the wheel cap back into place , grinned and said , ‘ Thanks , it happens about every two years or so , ’ got back in his car , then signalled equally wildly for me to wind down my window . |
| 29 | I found this sweet little man who fixed up a non-reflex 35 for me slowed down the motor wind so it would n't make a sound fixed in a timer to take a shot every thirty seconds . |
| 30 | You tell Ernest to see there 's a good fire for me to come down to . ’ |