Example sentences of "[pers pn] down [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when reviews do exist , tracking them down for a particular title can be difficult . |
| 2 | Many people say generally that ‘ there should be no whaling for ethical reasons ’ , but when you try to pin them down to a formulation of those ethics , you find it exceedingly difficult and , I am afraid to say , probably unconvincing to most people of the nations of the world . |
| 3 | Old bushes can be brought back to vigorous life by cutting them down to a foot from the ground at the end of winter . |
| 4 | As regards yeomen the statistics serve chiefly to emphasise the difficulty of pinning them down to a precise definition . |
| 5 | I and er told Lindsey if she 'd ever any problems never to write them down to a friend |
| 6 | Oxford Crown Court has jailed two men after hearing how drug squad detectives tracked them down during a trip to London . |
| 7 | Suddenly , a ladder broke away , precipitating them down into a heap and unfortunately one was killed . |
| 8 | In the living room she picked up a couple of wine glasses from the floor and set them down on a coffee table . |
| 9 | This is a postal competition so , when you think you 've found the right answers , jot them down on a postcard along with your name , address and daytime phone number and send it to Guitarist . |
| 10 | These days people bring hamsters and terrapins and rabbits and dogs , but nobody quite has the nerve to pin them down on a slab and cut their throats . |
| 11 | Or maybe a a lot in a sack wheel them down on a wheelbarrow or something . |
| 12 | If their heads protrude , pare them down with a chisel , and then drill slightly smaller than the peg diameter , and drill out the peg ( use a depth gauge so you do n't go right through the leg ) . |
| 13 | She forced herself to eat some more dry biscuits and chocolate , washing them down with a small amount of water . |
| 14 | From the first moment I saw Inverness Doogie and his Welsh wife , Miranda , I had them down as a sort of suicidal Sonny and Cher . |
| 15 | I do n't put them down as a . |
| 16 | I put them down as a 'No' , eight per cent could n't bring themselves to support this strategy , they are 'Nos ' . |
| 17 | A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all . |
| 18 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 19 | Cornelius threw up his hands and brought them down amidst a torrent of hair . |
| 20 | At eighteen it 's so easy to romanticise things and put them down in a song . |
| 21 | He saw things in a flash and put them down in a sentence or at most a paragraph . |
| 22 | Then she carried the basket to the washing line and unpegged the clothes rapidly , chucking them down in a windblown tangle ( Ella folded things as she took them out of the tumble drier . |
| 23 | Such posts might not carry a large salary , for although Henry VIII had evidently raised the wages of household officials , Elizabeth held them down in a period of rising prices . |
| 24 | Write them down in a list ( a ) , ( b ) , ( c ) , ( d ) . |
| 25 | I recited the names of some relations and friends , and my mother wrote them down in a businesslike fashion until I ran out of ideas . |
| 26 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 27 | Women motorists have been urged to be vigilant after two women were raped after three men flagged them down in a country lane in Bedfordshire . |
| 28 | Well I 'll be able to take them down in a minute . |
| 29 | On the day that Wilson was elected to office , he telephoned me , tracking me down to a restaurant in London , to enquire what to do about the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra . |
| 30 | They did come in , and it took seven of them to get me down to a single cell . |