Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was in a medicine bottle they would pour it down the sink ! |
| 2 | And on the A four two two , Stratford to Alcester , there are temporary traffic lights at Taylor 's Wood which might slow you down a little . |
| 3 | On the A four two three at Hopcroft 's Holt , there are temporary traffic lights for resurfacing work and er that might slow you down a little bit . |
| 4 | And on the A thirty-six one at Wardington , that 's just north of Banbury , there are twenty-four hour temporary traffic lights which might slow you down a little , and on the A four one five five , Reading Road , Shiplake , there are also temporary traffic lights causing some delays . |
| 5 | I 'll just file them down a bit . |
| 6 | I 'll see you down the front . |
| 7 | His plight was clearly desperate ; the slightest motion could hurtle him down the remaining few yards of slope and over the lip into the quarry . |
| 8 | and you wan na run it down the back , Deana take the wire down the back of all your books on the shelf |
| 9 | He would let her father row him down the lake and dangle out a few lines to see if a tickle of fish would tickle his mood . |
| 10 | Yeah , I 'll tell you what I did if I if that 's ladder 's out , I 'd drop it down the back of somewhere . |
| 11 | yeah , erm , I do n't quite know what to do about this , this is , I 've taken some stuff out , if I can slide it down the |
| 12 | ‘ You do n't win any medals by questioning the Chairman 's judgement , Mark ’ said his personal assistant , advising him to ‘ tone it down a bit ’ in future Dublin plant reports . |
| 13 | And why the problems there is that any sort of loud music was actually buried under the auditorial I mean that was the problem that occurred and we had to sort of tone it down a bit . |
| 14 | The authentic taste requires these wontons to be hot and spicy , but you may tone it down a bit by reducing the amount of chilli oil . |
| 15 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 16 | However , they paid little or no attention to her , and Lucy guessed that their minds were too occupied with the exciting venture which would take them down the foaming white waters of the river . |
| 17 | And then I 'll sell you down the galaxy , and you wo n't know her either . |
| 18 | Well I says Andy cut it down a bit like , even if you could cut , cut it down a bit for and I says he ca n't afford to give big housekeeping money and plus try and get a bus away to Kilkeel and take out , or take the wee girl out , what do you call her , Sonia . |
| 19 | Is there not a Stanley blade knocking about anywhere where you could just pare it down a wee bit ? |
| 20 | Think he 'd take it down the bottom would n't you ? |
| 21 | you can take it down the tip , |
| 22 | Well I mean , they might sell it down the shop but I never heard of it . |
| 23 | ‘ Better take us down a piece , where the bank levels out . |
| 24 | It might calm you down a bit . ’ |
| 25 | Somebody else said oh you should throw it down the sink but I did n't think you were supposed to do that either . |
| 26 | In the second kind of solution , the universe is expanding so rapidly that the gravitational attraction can never stop it , though it does slow it down a bit . |
| 27 | Let's let's slow it down a bit . |
| 28 | Did I marry Stuart because I thought he would n't let me down the way my father had ? |
| 29 | That I told Oliver I 'd put them down the waste-disposal and the phone went silent , and when I finally said , ‘ Are you still there ? ’ he just answered , ‘ I love you , ’ and hung up . |
| 30 | she said , ‘ Just got ta get it down the step . ’ |