Example sentences of "[pers pn] down [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a very gentle push , which Yanto did not believe was a serious attempt to stop him , so , as he swayed back against her , he tugged them down another inch . |
| 2 | Then you used to chop them down this way with a cleaver . |
| 3 | Maybe I 'll write them down some day , if I get the chance . |
| 4 | When the region turned them down last summer , they began the opt-out move . |
| 5 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 6 | Why do n't you bring me down some day and somebody steal it |
| 7 | ‘ If you do n't let me down this instant , Mr Jacobsen , I 'll … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Well ! ’ he said , ‘ I hope you 'll forgive me for having knocked you down that day . ’ |
| 9 | Erm yeah I certainly would encourage you down that path Miss Whittaker that if it helps , I do n't know whether you 've got all the documents , but in our our submissions to the county we suggested that if E two has to survive erm and to add the words , sorry , exactly as you started the sentence but finishing that the exceptions were areas of the sites allocated for development in local plans , it would seem to me to make it absolutely clear what the freedom of local interpretation was in the statutory plan process whilst giving the county the the that it wanted on all the other areas of the county . |
| 10 | I was fearful that I might find you down another alley . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I sponged you down this morning , child . |
| 12 | I 'll have to put you down some time . |
| 13 | The chief of the Near East Division had sat him down one day to try to teach him about Iran , but he doubted it had gone in . |
| 14 | I seemed always to be letting him down one way or another . |
| 15 | Whatever Jean saw in you that first occasion was still there and she accepted your explanation about letting her down that evening . |
| 16 | He claimed if a developer had to meet the cost of knocking it down each flat would cost £50,000 to build . |
| 17 | so it 's gon na piss it down any minute , right ? |
| 18 | Gon na chuck it down any minute |
| 19 | Hennessy brought a chair of his own and set it down some distance away . |
| 20 | No , I just , thinking it 's easier if I take it down this way . |
| 21 | Cos is it , is it down this way ? |
| 22 | so obviously they wan na get it down this weekend and get it out the way cos they 've got some family coming for the day on Sunday so they want to get it down tomorrow . |
| 23 | I had all my corner cabinet that corner cabinet out and put it down this end cos I 've wanted to move it cos I 've wanted me christmas tree . |
| 24 | I shall write it down this time . |
| 25 | I thinned it down this time . |
| 26 | Lost something put it down this morning |
| 27 | To make it diminished you just take it down another semitone . |
| 28 | Take it down another semitone . |
| 29 | That people will , will deliberately put it down half way through the term ? |
| 30 | I mean , this next plan will also take us down that path . |