Example sentences of "[pron] down [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remove old , unproductive fruit trees by cutting them down to shoulder height before using the stump as a lever to help dig out all the roots . |
| 2 | I took them down to Paradise Park for sexing . |
| 3 | ‘ Shall I bring them down to Water Gypsy this evening , or will you come up to Chimneys to see them ? ’ |
| 4 | For example , if a customer needs an altimeter , PAS can supply the complete article , but if a customer needs just part of the instrument , they are willing to break them down into component form to ensure that the customer gets just what he wants . |
| 5 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) in California , for instance , was once a naval air station , where in more innocent days the ground crews cleaned engines by hosing them down with carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethane ( TCE ) . |
| 6 | You , Rambo , come and play soldiers with me down on Jollity Farm . |
| 7 | Defeat left Everton with a far from comfortable eight point cushion above the relegation zone and Kendall said : ‘ We defended well most of the time but let ourselves down in injury time . |
| 8 | or write you down as time scale , you 'd presumably talking about planning up to six weeks perhaps before she trots around . |
| 9 | I find one down at ground level in what the council calls our courtyard . |
| 10 | We 'll force him down to Dane End or Watton . ’ |
| 11 | throw it down as ground bait |
| 12 | Gradually vanishing , as governments grow more sensitive and put it down as summer diarrhoea . |
| 13 | Thick slabs of bacon sizzled on a pan that sat by the fire , and they mopped up the fat with grainy bread , washing it down with spring water . |
| 14 | Put it down on ma bill . " |
| 15 | And you used to have what they call a wick in it you know to light it and turn it down at night time and blow it out down the . |
| 16 | One of the early theories about the causes of hyperkinetic syndrome put it down to brain damage , but research has failed to find any evidence of this . |
| 17 | I have n't told the management about the lymphoma , and have n't had a repeat of the weakness I experienced in Birmingham , so have put it down to adrenalin overdose and imagination . |
| 18 | Some do , er the rise and fall type of fitting over a dining table where when you 're er , er having dinner you 'd have erm it down to about what not more than twelve inches above the table er so that it lit the table but did n't shine in your eyes , erm some people leave it like that all the time , other people having had a meal lift er it up , erm I think the main thing about the , er adjustable fly and fall is that erm , it 's there for , as you want it , if you 're trying to find a meal you 've lost on the floor well then you pull it down to floor level really . |
| 19 | Shamlou put it down to war weariness . |
| 20 | TO be fair , you could put it down to jet lag and a 12-hour flight . |
| 21 | ‘ You must put it down to jet lag and worry over my sister ; I 'm not usually so easily fooled . ’ |
| 22 | She carried the Mayor 's swivel chair , put it down over City Hall , and sat in it . |
| 23 | Ponyboy , the main character , is 14 when the book starts , he narrates the story , as he is writing it down in essay form . |