Example sentences of "[pron] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Instead of putting them down for the afternoon , I 'd like to be able to do something with them . |
| 3 | Once all the for the rth generation have been determined , we can write them down for the ( r+1 ) th generation using ( 8.3 ) . |
| 4 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 5 | Allow the applied force gradually to separate your knees , driving them down to the mat . |
| 6 | Like , when they come in here I 'll bring them down to the canteen and let them have Coke and sweets . |
| 7 | Pale roads snaked from them down to the newer tourist settlements by the sea . |
| 8 | Gloria tied on her red headscarf , Dot buttoned up her pink cardigan and they went to wait for the bus to take them down to the hospital to see how Baby was doing . |
| 9 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 10 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 11 | Lift them from the elbows , and them drop them down to the floor . |
| 12 | Who sent them down to the Florida Keys and left them there in hurricane months ? |
| 13 | For this take young supple stems and bend them down to the soil . |
| 14 | I watched them down to the causeway . |
| 15 | The last recommendation was seized upon by critics who calculate that storing the most frequently-used books high up in the four towers will create a considerable time delay in transporting them down to the reading areas . |
| 16 | As food particles are swept by , they are caught by the tentacles and passed by them down to the mouth . |
| 17 | Well we 've fortunately been able to track them down to the waxes which er occur on land so what we 're seeing here is a , an input from the land carried on the dusts which are blown in the winds from the Sahara and other regions out into the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 18 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 19 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
| 20 | big woman out there at the wi the weaving , one of the weavers , and if there 's one of the chaps who there getting married oh she straps them down to the weaving . |
| 21 | The miners themselves probably found some sort of lodgings in the area but also spent most of their time living in small draughty shelters or " hutts " built near to their work places only severe weather shifting them down to the valley bottoms . |
| 22 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
| 23 | Within the hour they were out into the countryside , following the track which would lead them down to the old Roman road . |
| 24 | He took them down to the station and sent them off to London by passenger train . |
| 25 | It needed people to work all night sending out subscription copies , getting them down to the all-night post office . |
| 26 | So he stuck by it so he loosed these two and them down to the shore . |
| 27 | When they boarded the glittering red , gold and green floating restaurant , the maître d ’ took them down to the fresh fish display in the base . |
| 28 | I thought I 'd just take them down to the tip , but when we had half a bucket full I thought I 'd better phone the police |
| 29 | Galway will still go in as underdogs — an unusual position for them — but one that should suit them down to the ground . |
| 30 | We shift them down to the so they could n't get onto the cultivated land . |