Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it 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 | If necessary , use a padsaw to free the disc , but be careful not to lose it down the stack . |
3 | Is there not a Stanley blade knocking about anywhere where you could just pare it down a wee bit ? |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I just thinned it down a bit with this and that . ’ |
6 | just screw it down the |
7 | 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 . |
8 | ‘ Joyce always slowed it down a bit for Americans — takes them a while to tune in y'know . ’ |
9 | But I think they , they probably play it down a bit these days . |
10 | It seems to be particularly sensitive to the type of graphics card in use and 256 colour mode often slows it down a lot . |
11 | Well here turn it down a bit . |
12 | Do n't push it down the downpipe |
13 | It depends how narrowed it down a bit |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | A previous user of the review machine had tried to send some faxes which never made it down the wire . |
17 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |