Example sentences of "[pron] down [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after ‘ tedious battering the top thereof with pick-axes ’ did they eventually undermine two of its six sides bringing them down and leaving the tower in the state in which it is today . |
| 2 | He probably wanted to pull them down and re-develop the site . |
| 3 | They were very attractive and they did have the advantage that you could take them down and plunge the whole thing in water and wash it and er |
| 4 | She took one or two of them down and turned the pages over , trying to persuade herself she was reading them . |
| 5 | Cadillac knew otherwise and suggested the RAC take three identical cars from its showroom , strip them down and scramble the parts . |
| 6 | If the walls separating the two are of the partition rather than supporting variety you could take them down and incorporate the space into one much larger room which will make more family sense . |
| 7 | Since playgrounds give our children so much , it 's a great shame that in many areas , the old playparks are being allowed to run down until they 're in such a bad state that it 's easier and cheaper to knock them down and build a carpark than try to make them safe . |
| 8 | Go and get my down and get a bit more room . |
| 9 | Cornelius sat himself down and regarded the envelopes with suspicion . |
| 10 | Then fall down to the left and shift right ; the ghost should follow you down and scare the blue guard away . |
| 11 | Come on now , Miss Julie , sit you down and have a glass . |
| 12 | ‘ They wrote everything down and remembered the things we told them . |
| 13 | Minch would have to shut him up and calm down Slorne herself until eventually she would quieten herself down and let the rest of us get some peace and quiet . ’ |
| 14 | When I reached Sid , someone had brought him down and extinguished the flames . |
| 15 | It did n't have to be colourless , tasteless or odourless , it just had to be got , somehow or other , past Elinor 's front teeth , down her oesophagus and into her digestive system , even if to do so it should be necessary to hold her down and clamp a funnel between her jaws . |
| 16 | But now her husband has tracked her down and obtained a High Court order for the return of his children to America . |
| 17 | We hear of ‘ an elderly woman … set upon by a gang of young ruffians who knocked her down and stole a bag of provisions she was carrying ’ , and in another case a 17-year-old youth was charged with assaulting an elderly woman on Bank Holiday night : ‘ Both her eyes were blackened and there was an abrasion on her nose . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I want to lie her down and have a look at her . |
| 19 | I took her inside the house and tried to calm her down and called the police . |
| 20 | If you ca n't , or if your fingers are arthritic and you ca n't write much , let her write it down but take a part in it yourself . |
| 21 | The loop will now be round the person 's body and all you have to do is to pull it down and ask the volunteer to step out of it . |
| 22 | If it 's not written down I do n't know when they 've had or what they 've had , you 'll have to write it down and put a date on it . |
| 23 | Just bung that in like that seal it down and put a stamp on it . |
| 24 | I 'll , I 'll write it down and put a sticker up on the wall . |
| 25 | Can you help out ? he 's paying in gold and you can melt it down and make a new battleaxe that will never go rusty . |
| 26 | He made me put it down and began a long , fast conversation with the soldier . |
| 27 | MR ASHDOWN , the Liberal Democrat leader , stressed yesterday that without a commitment to proportional representation in the Queen 's Speech the Liberal Democrats would seek to vote it down and force a second general election . |
| 28 | The goal is made concrete by writing it down and making a commitment to it . |
| 29 | It was an old house there and that 's what she said , it was derelict , they knocked it down and rebuilt the new one . |
| 30 | She lifted it down and read the brief note inside . |