Example sentences of "something down " in BNC.

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1 He watched her throw back her head and laugh at something the policeman said , then move very close to him as he wrote something down in his book .
2 The thin man jotted something down in a narrow , cramped hand .
3 There was something down there and it was n't a friendly rock !
4 What was needed was something down home and businesslike .
5 It 's no good writing something down as an option unless you actually have the power to do it .
6 The road continued past the cottages so there must be something down there and it ought to be the common itself .
7 So , that is the upper levels occupied ; we now need something down below .
8 and the kid invariably writes something down .
9 Could we work under a more general , how would you feel about if we put something down like , I du n no , written work would , is is that
10 Yo you were looking at me Matthew how can you be writing something down !
11 In terms of review of staggered hours erm the review is sort of a constant one which has not really come to head yet , in terms of actually being able to write something down , so I 'm we 'll be able to as soon as we , as soon I 've something which we erm , come to any conclusions in terms of staggered hours .
12 ‘ It 's made contact with something down there . ’
13 ‘ You should get something down on this .
14 In a desire to get something down on paper quickly the student is underestimating the power and importance of the introduction .
15 Here is an example of an introduction which was written in a rush to get something down on paper .
16 Well , ten minutes later it was still up to me knees , I said , I ca n't keep this up and he shouted something down to somebody else , who shouted to somebody else , Put your sprags back lads .
17 ‘ Why should she do that ? ’ my mother had asked scornfully , slapping something down on the kitchen table a fish , I think .
18 How : ‘ One woman went to prison and she would not eat anything so , to open her mouth , they broke her teeth and put something down her throat . ’
19 But something down there was breathing , and the susurrant echoes of that breathing drifted up to them .
20 He rang me one day and asked if he could bring something down .
21 Okay stick , stick something down there .
22 Now then , you go back to your mum , I 'll write something down on a prescription here for you .
23 ‘ Helena , put something down on paper .
24 just sort of scribble something down , even if you , even if you do n't think it 's right .
25 Then you dangle something down inside to hook round the lift-up handle of the main window .
26 For the last year , I have had little time for writing , though I get something down on paper when I can .
27 ‘ How do I know you have n't flushed something down there ? ’
28 Just being in the same room as him sent shivers of something down her spine that up to now she had never experienced .
29 The Government have clearly shown during their 12 years in office that , whatever the Opposition may say , one does not spend £2 million of taxpayers ' money every working day with the objective of closing something down .
30 ‘ I want you to write something down .
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