Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | see that , that come aha , well that carpet we 've got in the sitting room you know , it was , it was twelve hundred pound , only put it down a few , er a few months before we |
| 2 | ‘ Better take us down a piece , where the bank levels out . |
| 3 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 4 | If necessary , use a padsaw to free the disc , but be careful not to lose it down the stack . |
| 5 | Just put them down the way you think that they 're spelt . |
| 6 | I 'll just file them down a bit . |
| 7 | She said I 'm not wearing them down the shop . |
| 8 | Is there not a Stanley blade knocking about anywhere where you could just pare it down a wee bit ? |
| 9 | Well , if you put a , just hit it down a little bit , I got , probably wo n't get through , but if you hit it down a little bit to give it a bit of spin it might carry it through . |
| 10 | I just thinned it down a bit with this and that . ’ |
| 11 | just screw it down the |
| 12 | The scanning expert said : ‘ The easiest way to do that would be to enhance the quality of the original recording then just play it down an ordinary phone to a mobile phone in an area where the signal was strong . |
| 13 | ‘ Joyce always slowed it down a bit for Americans — takes them a while to tune in y'know . ’ |
| 14 | But I think they , they probably play it down a bit these days . |
| 15 | It seems to be particularly sensitive to the type of graphics card in use and 256 colour mode often slows it down a lot . |
| 16 | No , the ones who get me are the purposeful ones who are out to pull you down a peg or two when you were quite happy with the peg you were on . |
| 17 | He was nearly always right , too , so very seldom did anyone get the chance of really taking him down a peg or two . |
| 18 | But when you 're a £2.5m striker who 's living up to his price-tag as spectacularly as he has done , there are always going to be people out to bring you down a peg or two . |
| 19 | That eventually took them down the wide , steep main street of a small town , then the road narrowed , crossed an old stone bridge , and began to climb , leaving behind the houses , the church with its tall , graceful steeple , and the half-timbered buildings . |
| 20 | Well here turn it down a bit . |
| 21 | Did I marry Stuart because I thought he would n't let me down the way my father had ? |
| 22 | Do n't push it down the downpipe |
| 23 | Joy and Alan came back , and it was decided that we would wait until dark and then bring him down the fire escape ; luckily there was one right next to his room . |
| 24 | It depends how narrowed it down a bit |
| 25 | Chen returned the man 's bow , then followed him down the hallway to another door . |
| 26 | Quick as a thief , Garvey raised it to his collar and was about to drop it down the inside of his shirt when the Mason took a hold of his collar from behind and twisted it . |
| 27 | When at last Hazel had got him back to the ditch , he refused at first to go underground and Hazel had almost to push him down the hole . |
| 28 | ‘ I think Hasan was about to throw me down the cliffs out of his cave ! ’ |
| 29 | Erm I think um , given what you were saying yesterday , erm it 's sometimes a good idea to start with quite a lot and then narrow it down a bit . |
| 30 | On many occasions a small group of children will be playing with cars , either running them down an incline ( a plank resting on a block ) or pushing them up . |