Example sentences of "[pron] down [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For such particles , tachyons , infinite energy would be required to slow them down to light-speed . |
| 2 | Remove old , unproductive fruit trees by cutting them down to shoulder height before using the stump as a lever to help dig out all the roots . |
| 3 | ‘ If I was to praise the girls in the post office , being Irish they would have to cut them down to size , ’ Moran argued . |
| 4 | Girls can be praised for paying boys back in their own currency , for cutting them down to size , or for challenging the male domination of the music business . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I took them down to Paradise Park for sexing . |
| 7 | ‘ Shall I bring them down to Water Gypsy this evening , or will you come up to Chimneys to see them ? ’ |
| 8 | While there are problems in the class , … when I looked at the programme I could see that problems that are caused because you are not explaining yourself , you are not getting them down to work , they do n't understand what they 're doing . |
| 9 | Thousands of students , particularly from Beijing , were sent to undertake ‘ social practice ’ during the summer vacation in the hope that contact With ‘ real life ’ would bring them down to earth and give them a more realistic assessment of society . |
| 10 | The illegal payments scandal brought them down to earth with a bump and down into the 3rd division . |
| 11 | For example , if a customer needs an altimeter , PAS can supply the complete article , but if a customer needs just part of the instrument , they are willing to break them down into component form to ensure that the customer gets just what he wants . |
| 12 | British engineers have developed a new method of incinerating spent vehicle tyres at high temperatures , breaking them down into gas and oil for fuel , and " char " — a residue which is rich in high-quality carbon . |
| 13 | It would have been better on water , Masklin was told later , but Shrub had brought them down on land . |
| 14 | To master something of the knowledge to put them down on paper not only requires some study and drawing skills , but I believe a sense of rhythm as well . |
| 15 | Thirdly , and most important of all in the genesis of Doctor Who , are the people who inspired it — the few who drew the notion of Doctor Who from the seeds of human inventiveness and put them down on paper . |
| 16 | Well , Walter had been through the same things , but he wanted to put them down on paper . |
| 17 | Since no detailed register of these existed at the point of emancipation , one of the main purposes of the post-1861 charters was to set them down on paper . |
| 18 | So it 's difficult to put them down on paper ? |
| 19 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 20 | I gobbled them down — there was a whole day ahead of me and no guarantee of food — and washed them down with water . |
| 21 | We have grown too good , kind and sensitive to mow them down with machine guns , starve them out of existence . |
| 22 | Lay the boards in rows , with the joints staggered from row to row , and pin them down with hardboard pins , driven in at 150mm ( 6in ) spacings . |
| 23 | Once on the ferry , Amanda and he had gone to the snack-bar and eaten prepacked sausage rolls and washed them down with beer ; she seemed to be able to drink quantities without degenerating into giggles like one or two earlier companions . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | At the end of the play , he takes a box full of sleeping pills and washes them down with wine — both pills and wine have been affectionately supplied by Trish . |
| 26 | So she crammed six big fellers into her front room , sat them down with rum and blankets , and the whole bunch snuggled up like they were queueing all night to buy tickets for the Test Match . |
| 27 | There are several distinguishable types of foraging behaviour and food preference , varying from tracking and pursuit of prey animals by running them down through stealth and pouncing methods to omnivory or insect eating . |
| 28 | Yeah well on what people have said I I think that er there 's a possibility that er if Stuart and myself get together with the officers concerned that we if these trees are pruned and trimmed as they they 're saying they 're over overgrown at the moment surely that would cut them down in size and if they 're regular pruned every so many years they wo n't they wo n't be a nuisance I do n't think in future years . |
| 29 | I would n't mind betting that Bill 's lists that you gave him actually contained all these things and only then can we actually put them down in order . |
| 30 | They felt that he had let them down in front of others . |