Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got sent down the judge said , ‘ You should be out for the baby 's birth ’ , but I was n't . |
| 2 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 3 | Is n't it true that someone tried to burn down the barn your Sparrowgrass was stabled in a month ago ? |
| 4 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 5 | My mother could n't believe I 'd turned down the highest single accolade known to show business aside from This Is Your Life ( which I 've also managed to avoid by dint of a pact with the reclusive man with whom I share my digs ) . |
| 6 | I managed to get down the last two words of the preceding paragraph before my stomach over-boiled into my mouth . |
| 7 | I had to hold down the wheelbarrow by sitting on it while taking off my hat , changing into my jeans , and putting on goggles and a smog-mask . |
| 8 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 10 | Well , there was nothing for it , I had to lay down the law in no uncertain terms . |
| 11 | he and he were like this in the water I had to go down the bank I grabbed hold of him in the middle of his back , just turfed him out . |
| 12 | I had to force down the wave of nausea . |
| 13 | As usual , once I had put down the wheelbarrow , I had stiffened up and been able to think only of aches and pains . |
| 14 | Fenella was easily bribed with the promise of an ice-cream on the way home and Lisabeth kept her company by devouring a couple of choc ices , which meant I had to wash down the upholstery of Armstrong 's back seat that evening . |
| 15 | Although I wanted to go down the pit because you got more money you see . |
| 16 | In INDIA , for instance , despite the sterilisation scandals which helped to bring down the Ghandi Administration in 1977 , there are now new reports of widespread sterilisation abuse in Gujerat ( using famine relief as an ‘ incentive ’ ) and Rajasthan ( using promises of employment as an ‘ incentive ’ for tribal women ) . |
| 17 | Barakai commenced a fury of strokes which seemed to beat down the Manchu 's blade . |
| 18 | This year of 1944 saw the supreme Japanese effort to break the deadlock which had bogged down the Burma front . |
| 19 | The blast which had flung down the doors at the front had strangely left the windows intact , but when Pat arrived home it was decided that it would be better to leave Julia in the bed in the cellar . |
| 20 | Returning to the Maison Caressa at Nice , he persuaded the factory which had turned down the project fifteen years earlier to manufacture " a certain quantity " of 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato according to his own specification . |
| 21 | Was Miss Fergusson comparing the earthquake which had thrown down the village of Arghuri to the great Flood itself ? |
| 22 | There were still old parts of Bucharest surviving despite the bulldozers of Ceausescu which had torn down the old to build huge concrete cubes . |
| 23 | The windscreen was splattered with spittle which had dribbled down the glass and dried . |
| 24 | The reform was designed to reduce the linguistic tensions in Belgium , which had brought down the previous Martens coalition in 1987 [ see pp. 34892 ; 35489 ] . |
| 25 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 26 | The 26 Tory rebels who tried to bring down the government |
| 27 | The last child — and the oldest — was always Flora Bouverie , who came trailing down the bus steps burdened with splitting carrier bags and fragile , half-made artefacts , peering about her blindly for her mother . |
| 28 | She 'd turned down the offers of promotion because of Emily . |
| 29 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |
| 30 | Leonora , expecting to be taken by storm after she 'd flung down the gauntlet , found Penry in no hurry at all . |