Example sentences of "[pron] down [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listen attentively , and if information or details have to be recorded , write them down clearly and legibly , as they are given . |
| 2 | oh alright , he 's put them down somewhere and he ca n't find them , and he thought perhaps you might of picked them up , cos you 're always picking things up you should n't are n't you ? |
| 3 | You know , they might just get up a little way and then some bureaucracy knocks them down again and they 're back where they started . |
| 4 | I brought them down here but there is n't anywhere to put them . |
| 5 | I was just worried that you 'd be furious with me for bringing them down here when you were out of the country . |
| 6 | Are you gon na get them down here or up in Newmarket ? |
| 7 | Brought them down here and then gone off along the cliff path with them . |
| 8 | So they brought them down here and they had fifty cases of oranges in here . |
| 9 | So is a putting them down here and not being able to see them |
| 10 | ‘ It just seemed too much of a gamble , ’ he explained , and in fact the 22-year-old left-hander turned them down once before temptation overcame him . |
| 11 | I put them down there so you can |
| 12 | So if you have any growing in a corner of your garden , cut some of them down now and by July there will be fresh growth for butterflies to lay their eggs on . |
| 13 | I knew that during those brief immortal moments when I was standing up on the board , walking on water , I too felt like a supreme being , until the ocean cast me down again and turned me once more into a creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the earth . |
| 14 | I thought he might have met someone down there and become embroiled in conversation . |
| 15 | Then he lay down again carefully , putting his hand and arm on the far side of the body and easing himself down so that he was partly lying on Patrick , his trunk upon his trunk , his legs upon his legs , and , as he supported himself on his arms , his face just above the skeleton face . |
| 16 | It takes considerable practice to perfect and if done badly slows you down rather than speeding you up . |
| 17 | ‘ Lachlan , sit you down again and see have I not got a grand idea . |
| 18 | Predictions from these tables will let you down once or twice a year when a session of light wind invades for a few days . |
| 19 | just that I tried the phone room , I 'll take you down there and , I could see you from up here and I said he 's around . |
| 20 | With every approach , try to get into the habit of thinking ahead about the height of he final turn and to become familiar with the idea of using the airbrakes to bring you down so that the final turn is not too high . |
| 21 | It just slows you down so that there are no longer enough hours in the day , and then some things get put off and other things are only half-completed and you 're told you need help — an assistant priest , no less , to concentrate , as the Bishop with his unfailing instinct for the wrong word put it , on ‘ the donkey work ’ ( well , perhaps after all I was only a beast of burden , Father McGiff conceded ) to give you ‘ a chance to relax , take life more easily , think a bit more , pray a bit more , meditate ’ . |
| 22 | It 's got training need and it 's got virtually everything down there that the new member of staff joining the company would need to know . |
| 23 | And if a builder gon na go down there you say , Well look I 've got one down here but I 've got a prime slot |
| 24 | Get one down here as well . |
| 25 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 26 | And perhaps one down there but not very likely . |
| 27 | I said , well I said er I 'll ask Peter , I know there is one down there but whether it 's for sale or not , I said I 'll be cheeky this morning and ask him . |
| 28 | One down below and one above huh |
| 29 | See if there 's something down here that you could read we could play schools this afternoon . |
| 30 | There was something down there and it was n't a friendly rock ! |