Example sentences of "[pron] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when reviews do exist , tracking them down for a particular title can be difficult . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As regards yeomen the statistics serve chiefly to emphasise the difficulty of pinning them down to a precise definition . |
| 4 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 5 | It needed people to work all night sending out subscription copies , getting them down to the all-night post office . |
| 6 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 7 | Pale roads snaked from them down to the newer tourist settlements by the sea . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Within the hour they were out into the countryside , following the track which would lead them down to the old Roman road . |
| 11 | The two belligerents having accepted this text in principle , Perez de Cuellar 's task , involving a bout of shuttle diplomacy , was now to pin them down to an actual cease-fire on the ground . |
| 12 | " They claimed that they ought to be [ treated as ] free coloni by birth , and that Deodadus the monk [ responsible for running the Mitry estate ] wanted unjustly to bend them down into an inferior service by force , and to afflict them . " |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She forced herself to eat some more dry biscuits and chocolate , washing them down with a small amount of water . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all . |
| 20 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The steward took them down beyond the Great Hall into a vast , stone-flagged kitchen . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Then she carried the basket to the washing line and unpegged the clothes rapidly , chucking them down in a windblown tangle ( Ella folded things as she took them out of the tumble drier . |
| 25 | I recited the names of some relations and friends , and my mother wrote them down in a businesslike fashion until I ran out of ideas . |
| 26 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 27 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell . |
| 30 | 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 . |