Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very simple way of collecting examples of people talking is to sit them down in front of the camera and get them to talk to it . |
| 2 | They 've got to condense them down into to micro size , you know like the micro chip |
| 3 | I want you to drive me down to the railway station in about half an hour . ’ |
| 4 | We have grown too good , kind and sensitive to mow them down with machine guns , starve them out of existence . |
| 5 | I and er told Lindsey if she 'd ever any problems never to write them down to a friend |
| 6 | THE Tranmere Rovers players were so high on good publicity before this match that their manager , John King , said he would have to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 7 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 8 | If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter . |
| 9 | I 'll give you some paper just to jot them down in cos you can cos you |
| 10 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 11 | Time at last to rid himself of the name ‘ Marwood ’ for good and all : he told the officiating minister , Alfred Martell , to write him down as ‘ James Henry Titford ’ . |
| 12 | She wanted to pull him down with her . |
| 13 | and Ken we used to write it down on a bit of paper who had what and who owed what and |
| 14 | ‘ While you are waiting for God to write it down for you in capital letters , ’ Anna had shouted finally , exasperated out of all diplomacy , ‘ I shall decide for you both . |
| 15 | Erm I do n't think I have got any written down here for you to have a look so I 'll have to write it down for you erm stuff about Stanley knives . |
| 16 | She felt Adam 's ribs swell suddenly as he took in a huge breath ; he thrust her away from him , seized hold of the roof slab as if to pull it down on top of them ; and screamed . |
| 17 | They reckoned They was going to pull it down after the War . |
| 18 | Mandy either had not noticed the formidable wall of his reserve , or had decided to batter it down with her considerable charm . |
| 19 | Hakel and Reimer make a book of a slender subject and somehow , despite 160 pages and 529 references , manage to slim it down to practically nothing . |
| 20 | Within seconds one of the porters was knocking at the door to escort us down in case of trouble . |
| 21 | So the ship was to go briefly near ground-level to set me down by tractor-beam . |
| 22 | Since no detailed register of these existed at the point of emancipation , one of the main purposes of the post-1861 charters was to set them down on paper . |
| 23 | Well we 've fortunately been able to track them down to the waxes which er occur on land so what we 're seeing here is a , an input from the land carried on the dusts which are blown in the winds from the Sahara and other regions out into the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 24 | I pulled her to the side where Otley dragged her up the bank and began to dust her down as if she were not wet but dirty . |
| 25 | But at this second exhibition Flatpattern 's ex-wife , who has been trying to track him down for alimony , appears , denounces him and the syndicate and mayhem breaks out . |
| 26 | He 'd managed to track her down on the Friday evening , waiting for several minutes as she was summoned to the communal phone in the hall where she was now a deputy warden . |
| 27 | It was heavy for him , he was glad to set it down for a while . |
| 28 | Now that Antoinette was dead , there was no one to repeat to her to be careful , not to drop it , to try at least to walk like a lady , not to plonk it down like that . |
| 29 | She could have asked for the moon , and seen the clansmen climb on each other 's shoulders to reach it down for her . |
| 30 | When he had dumped their two canvas bags on the ground , he reached up again to help her down from the high train . |