Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] down [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And will she be bringing them down here to stay do you think ? ’ |
| 2 | I was just worried that you 'd be furious with me for bringing them down here when you were out of the country . |
| 3 | If things had turned out differently I 'd been driving you down here . |
| 4 | An AK47 cracked again , keeping him down low , and blind . |
| 5 | It 's one we normally keep in the attic but we 've been keeping it down here |
| 6 | It was dithing it down outside . |
| 7 | A piece of handicraft may cost just a few pence in our terms , so where is the virtue in knocking it down any further ? ’ |
| 8 | Yeah it 's er I take the car back half term , if , you know , I do n't mind driving it down there , but the thing is how am I gon na get back if I drive it down , it 's gon na cost me forty pound fifty |
| 9 | Apply plenty of rubber solution adhesive to the back of the frame and hardboard , then carefully place the backing fabric in position , gently but firmly pressing it down all over the back and frame until it is evenly fixed . |
| 10 | Then he lay down again carefully , putting his hand and arm on the far side of the body and easing himself down so that he was partly lying on Patrick , his trunk upon his trunk , his legs upon his legs , and , as he supported himself on his arms , his face just above the skeleton face . |
| 11 | The students who have been writing everything down now look up and smile wryly at Robyn Penrose , like victims of a successful hoax . |
| 12 | and if you then taxed you would , you would pushing everybody down below . |
| 13 | A fresh squall tore the rainwater off the road surface , cascading it down so that they were riding in the inside of a waterfall as Trent powered onward in the lee of the embankment . |
| 14 | She looks a little hot and flustered at the moment , which I 'm afraid is my fault for rushing her down here at very little notice . |
| 15 | She realised , with hindsight , that he had n't forgiven her either for turning him down soon after she 'd joined the team . |
| 16 | She twined her arms so tightly round his neck that he almost choked , pulling him down so that he overbalanced and fell on top of her . |
| 17 | Yeah , this business of pulling it down there |
| 18 | It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again . |
| 19 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 20 | Because oxygen is so reactive , it can ‘ burn ’ organic molecules efficiently — breaking them down thoroughly , ultimately to form carbon dioxide and water . |
| 21 | She said , she did n't know but she getting somebody down here now ! |
| 22 | And she 's getting somebody down now ! |
| 23 | It just starts getting you down eventually … . |
| 24 | I 'm sure you succeeded in calming her down beautifully . |
| 25 | Why are you moving him down here ? |
| 26 | They 're sending her down tomorrow . |
| 27 | As soon as the patient feels anger , the device releases the chemical , calming him down again . ’ |
| 28 | The tow pilot can help by allowing his aircraft to climb away , gaining speed rather than holding it down close to the ground . |
| 29 | So therefore there 's less gravity holding it down therefore it would bulge out a bit . |
| 30 | you start slowing it down right , right |