Example sentences of "[pron] down [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter . |
| 2 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 3 | It needed people to work all night sending out subscription copies , getting them down to the all-night post office . |
| 4 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 5 | Pale roads snaked from them down to the newer tourist settlements by the sea . |
| 6 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 7 | When they boarded the glittering red , gold and green floating restaurant , the maître d ’ took them down to the fresh fish display in the base . |
| 8 | Within the hour they were out into the countryside , following the track which would lead them down to the old Roman road . |
| 9 | And he had taken them down into the Southern Ocean , not as far as we were going , but far enough to be in amongst the ice , circumnavigating the whole land mass of Antarctica in waters no man had ever sailed before . |
| 10 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
| 11 | He reached towards her with his strong hands and pressed them down on the fine-boned structure of her shoulders , massaging with rhythmic , kneading movements . |
| 12 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 13 | Make the patchwork on the shells by spreading the glue over a small area , laying on scraps of cloth and pressing them down with the damp cloth . |
| 14 | Incineration is the most appropriate disposal method for many wastes which can be rendered harmless only by breaking them down through the controlled use of heat . |
| 15 | The steward took them down beyond the Great Hall into a vast , stone-flagged kitchen . |
| 16 | Their path took them down beyond the Technical College and the School of Art building , where Buddie and two of his sisters posed as living models for the students . |
| 17 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 18 | Coming from eighty throats , it swept with them down from the wooded foothills and made them sound like a flock of scavenging birds disturbed from their carcass . |
| 19 | My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell . |
| 20 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
| 21 | Skirting a tinker camp , Mrs M. eventually put me down beside the fast-flowing River Moy at Ballina . |
| 22 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 23 | He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station . |
| 24 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 25 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 26 | He plopped himself down on the nearest chair . |
| 27 | Corbett groaned and went up to his chamber , throwing himself down on the small cot and reflecting on what he had learnt . |
| 28 | He threw himself down on the huge old bed and stared at the sloping timber ceiling . |
| 29 | He pitched forward , throwing himself down in the glutinous mud , covering his head with his hands as Farrell replied , bullets slicing through the air and singing above the prone man 's body , missing him , it seemed , by mere inches . |
| 30 | ‘ I will have a few casts here , Blair , then follow you down to the next pool , ’ I suggested . |