Example sentences of "them down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slows them down . |
| 2 | Director Roger Pomphrey 's documentary crew filmed UB40 at home in Brum and followed them down to London with their families and friends . |
| 3 | I had let them down and was no longer worthy of their friendship . |
| 4 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 5 | And although always implied rather than broadcast , this rejection of intellectualism is so well understood throughout the service that it has even affected those to whom Bramshill scholarships to University have been offered , and many turn them down . |
| 6 | Allow the applied force gradually to separate your knees , driving them down to the mat . |
| 7 | The bold spirits stood and made a show until the muskets cut them down or sent them fleeing . |
| 8 | He had brought out his lists , four sheets , and had got them half fixed to the door when Allan knocked him aside and tore them down and then spent an hour , with James 's help , going down the names and telling the young men to their faces whether or not they were listed . |
| 9 | Up in the chestnut branches girls and boys were clambering about , hitting at the spiked green conkers and knocking them down on to the heads below . |
| 10 | ‘ McDougal , calm them down ! ’ |
| 11 | But if your men attack we shall mow them down . |
| 12 | Wishing hard to avoid the carved arches , I invited all manner of alternatives and shot them down one by one as unsuitable . |
| 13 | The idea is to hit atoms head-on with laser beams , slowing them down . |
| 14 | Nor could you just shut your eyes and throw them down the hatch ; because the whole pleasure of a chicken 's foot would come from sucking and nibbling it slowly , seeking out the tasty skin and the fragments of flesh like the last moments of a particularly luscious spare rib . |
| 15 | MANILA ( AP ) — Ferdinand Marcos ' followers petitioned the Philippine Supreme Court to allow the late president 's body to be returned from Hawaii , and one of them threatened a huge protest if the tribunal turned them down . |
| 16 | It is an easy trick to target controversial buildings and , in the mind 's eye at least , to pull them down . |
| 17 | An American studio had approached Willy for the rights to the play , but ‘ they envisaged a Brat Pack movie , packaging first and script later , ’ and he turned them down . |
| 18 | As each person began to cry , a rebirther helped to calm them down . |
| 19 | The best solution , I have found , is to throw them down , one by one , on to the horses ' deep bed of wood-chips , off which they almost always bounce unscathed . |
| 20 | Once we had got them down , we found that one could scarcely stand up . |
| 21 | A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down . |
| 22 | Like , when they come in here I 'll bring them down to the canteen and let them have Coke and sweets . |
| 23 | Pale roads snaked from them down to the newer tourist settlements by the sea . |
| 24 | He published at least one book a year ; readers who began could not put them down , though at the end of the book they had received nothing . |
| 25 | Vivienne would pick them up and say , it 's alright I 'll just wash them down and put them back on the rack . |
| 26 | They felt that he had let them down in front of others . |
| 27 | ‘ If I was to praise the girls in the post office , being Irish they would have to cut them down to size , ’ Moran argued . |
| 28 | On the descent that followed , leading to Låddejåkkåstugan — stugan is hut — about six kilometres , we beat them down by forty-five minutes , freewheeling all the way . |
| 29 | Personally I do n't think it is traditions which are weighing them down but the fact that they have no support at home . |
| 30 | Cadillac knew otherwise and suggested the RAC take three identical cars from its showroom , strip them down and scramble the parts . |