Example sentences of "[pers pn] down and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go through your drawers and anything you do n't need bring them down and throw them in the bin . |
| 2 | Only after ‘ tedious battering the top thereof with pick-axes ’ did they eventually undermine two of its six sides bringing them down and leaving the tower in the state in which it is today . |
| 3 | He probably wanted to pull them down and re-develop the site . |
| 4 | This is n't likely to be a major hazard to the adventurers , but it will surprise them , slow them down and prevent easy escape . |
| 5 | I shall write them down and sign them . |
| 6 | You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long . |
| 7 | They would salt them down and let them lie in the brine for a while and they would take them out and dry them . |
| 8 | Would he really let rhinoceroses out of cages so they charged people in the suburbs and trampled them down and ate them alive ? |
| 9 | Lay them down and raise their legs |
| 10 | I once saw this great T-shirt in New York which said , ‘ If you love somebody let them go … and if they do n't come back , hunt them down and shoot them ’ . |
| 11 | Vivienne would pick them up and say , it 's alright I 'll just wash them down and put them back on the rack . |
| 12 | She pushed them down and left them on the floor . |
| 13 | Groups of men had been working ceaselessly since the battle to tear them down and salvage what they could of their contents . |
| 14 | They were very attractive and they did have the advantage that you could take them down and plunge the whole thing in water and wash it and er |
| 15 | What she ought to do is , I know what I 'd do is leave Anthony and Maria and they can put them down and go and see |
| 16 | family and they put me onto valium , but having worked in psychiatric I knew the results of valium , so I I gradually broke them down and got off them but for six full months I could n't sleep |
| 17 | A The surest away of getting rid of them is to cut them down and dig them out . |
| 18 | The herbicide Agent Orange and all that it represents , from carpet bombing of rainforests to bulldozing them down and removing their topsoil , managed to demolish a fifth of Vietnam 's tree cover and to replace it , in great stretches , with a moonscape of bomb craters . |
| 19 | The idea is that , if you pick out the best bits from the past , combine them , mix and match them , dust them down and restore them fondly , then the result will be something better . |
| 20 | We and i it 's , when we had sprouts it used to get its hind legs and pull them down and start ploughing at them . |
| 21 | It is a paradox — one of the many paradoxes of mysticism — that even though mystics insist that their experiences are radically ineffable , many of the great mystics have felt compelled to write them down and to try to communicate them to others . |
| 22 | We discovered that by making permanent changes to their usual diets individuals felt that their general health improved dramatically ; they felt far better mentally , and they managed to lose those ugly pounds of flesh that had been slowing them down and stubbing their ego . |
| 23 | She took one or two of them down and turned the pages over , trying to persuade herself she was reading them . |
| 24 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 25 | People may actually be right but that is not an excuse for smugness , and non-interest in what anybody else thinks except to knock them down and force them to acknowledge the superiority of one 's own views . |
| 26 | I hope you wrote some of them down and have started thinking very creatively towards achieving some of the short-term ones and making long-term plans for the more ambitious ones . |
| 27 | Horses rearing and neighing , as ostlers and stable-boys tried to calm them down and lead them away . |
| 28 | back and they were disgusted so they 've taken them down and gon na make me a complete new set . |
| 29 | You could write them down and give them to your next of kin or a close friend . |
| 30 | Cadillac knew otherwise and suggested the RAC take three identical cars from its showroom , strip them down and scramble the parts . |