Example sentences of "[pers pn] down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I wrote them down for each person .
2 ‘ Then bring them down to Central Gardens , where we hope to have the biggest can collection ever seen in the region or perhaps the country . ’
3 Griffith now heated his rods in the middle and drew them down to thinner and thinner fibres which after cooling he also broke in tension .
4 The Benefits Agency is trying to play down the NAO findings , putting them down to administrative delays rather than errors .
5 Thame 's Russell was then dismissed for dissent taking them down to nine men , from which there was no way back and Headington ran out comfortable winners .
6 like if you take them down to six
7 Some of them down to six and seven .
8 Since they 're only at the start of their two-month US tour , BMG sent them down to Next for some smart fashions .
9 If , however , the procedure does comply with the procedure description derived earlier , then it will be necessary to subject each element or activity of the model to further scrutiny , for example by breaking them down to lower-order activities , or by auditing each element in the same manner as the parent procedure .
10 disk is fifty six million bytes in size , and er you used most of them down to three million left available .
11 Generally speaking it is best to avoid complex behaviours with small children and parents but if they are unavoidable ensure that the parents know to break them down into small bits .
12 Because you 'd you could n't hold that much in your head so you have to try and break them down into little patterns of Oh it 's one of that lot or it 's one of this lot .
13 Wholesalers , for example , buy in bulk from the manufacturers , store the goods , break them down into smaller quantities , undertake advertising and promotional activities , deliver to other traders , usually retailers , and arrange credit and other services for them .
14 And and and of course now that er now that we 've got the total business beginning to operate as one , the chances of letting them down on standard bearings is very much smaller than it ever was before .
15 I put them down on that floor .
16 by jotting them down on this hurtling train
17 You might them down on this .
18 When children came running to them for sweets , they scythed them down with automatic fire .
19 Aha that was just went in It was all blown to the side and that was it was kept just for the for the carol beasts for the sheds you see , for the that was what the what we saw what they bedded them down with that .
20 Sam popped several coloured capsules into his mouth and washed them down with another slug of firewater .
21 Do n't run them down with bitchy comments behind their backs .
22 Tablecloths can be easily tugged off , so hold them down with double-sided tape or tuck the corners in .
23 And , all run here , everything was run here , and animals , animals that won here , well er well I think they put them down as better animals than animals that raced before the war , you know , cos they had to do such a lot in a short time .
24 Now there 's some of these , I 'll just drop them down onto these erm , so I 'll drop it down onto that
25 They will be ready for November , before the government grant settlement arrives , and work will begin in the finance officer 's department paring them down in bilateral discussions .
26 Moving underneath them , the whale then rises , gulping them down in one leviathan mouthful .
27 My parents were the type of parents who always seemed faintly disappointed by whatever it was you did , as if you were constantly letting them down in small ways .
28 If not I 've only got to put them up in the attic and bring them down in three month 's time .
29 No , they 've put them down in third division now .
30 And cut them down by twenty a day .
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