Example sentences of "[pers pn] down from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Tranmere Rovers players were so high on good publicity before this match that their manager , John King , said he would have to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 2 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 3 | At the top end , very high-fliers are still in demand , to the extent that recruiters sometimes have difficulty pulling them down from the stratosphere to fill plum vacancies . |
| 4 | A fourth — a girl — had an epileptic fit as rescuers brought them down from the Lake District peak at Ullswater in Cumbria . |
| 5 | ‘ We put them in , me an ’ my friends , brought them down from the lake . |
| 6 | Coming from eighty throats , it swept with them down from the wooded foothills and made them sound like a flock of scavenging birds disturbed from their carcass . |
| 7 | It was a glimmering he had , but no more than that , and she cast him down from the height of her knowledge . |
| 8 | She let him help her down from the carriage and lead her inside a shop where there was a strong , pastoral smell of grain , and Sarah wrinkled up her nose to sniff it . |
| 9 | We toyed with the idea of bringing her down from the gallery and onto the set one evening . |
| 10 | When he had dumped their two canvas bags on the ground , he reached up again to help her down from the high train . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not good at waiting , ’ she persisted stubbornly , as he handed her down from the cruiser . |
| 12 | He lifted her down from the train , kissed her swiftly , then began to lead her towards the taxi rank . |
| 13 | I said there was to be a sale , but I would ask the solicitor ; and afterwards , when he came to take the barometer away , he took it down from the wall very , very gently . |
| 14 | I took it down from the shelf in my locker and went out of doors . |
| 15 | I got it down from the top of the wardrobe . |
| 16 | Let us get it down from the shelf for close scrutiny . |
| 17 | Track it down from the root directory of drive C by typing : DIR WHATPC.BAT /S |