Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] down a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hunter who strikes down a wild peccary with a blowgun dart is participating in only one aspect of this process , and the critical role is played by the ruwang . |
| 2 | Michael Smith was driving the quad bike which ran down a hunt saboteur . |
| 3 | I think that whether as er Mr submits and is a guideline case and to be adapted to changing conditions or whether it is a case which lays down a bounding rate , that it is a case which I should follow and that the reasoning leading to the adoption of two percent as the appropriate percentage to be applied still applies today , thus the calculation is one hundred and thirty five thousand pounds times two percent , is two thousand , seven hundred pounds times seventeen , is forty five thousand , nine hundred pounds , to this there is to be added a cost of conversion , thirty two thousand , four hundred and seventy two pounds less the enhancement in value thereby created of twelve thousand , five hundred pounds that is a figure of nineteen thousand , nine hundred and seventy two . |
| 4 | Karen Young 's glamorous looks would make her a role model for actress Helen Mirren who tracked down a serial killer in the hit series . |
| 5 | From the top of the kitchen-dresser he took down a jar . |
| 6 | A HIT-AND-RUN driver who knocked down a Gaelic footballer and left him dying on a border road has been jailed for six months . |
| 7 | Blencowe apparently owed his career as a judge to Wallis who turned down a bishopric for himself but asked that his son-in-law be considered for a judicial appointment [ DNB , 20 , 598–602 ] . |
| 8 | That evening she turned down a prior supper engagement , pleading a headache . |
| 9 | Well , then how do you explain the night I put down a copy of Viz , turned on the telly , and settled in for what I thought would be a programme of smart , irreverent comedy ? |
| 10 | They say many of the prospective owners who put down a fifty thousand pound deposit are now looking to pull out . |
| 11 | After her ordeal on Sunday she flagged down a couple , who drove her to police . |
| 12 | In a March speech at the Hotel Cecil he laid down a plan of submitting food taxes — the most controversial item — to a referendum . |
| 13 | On his way drunkenly from the pub to the wood one night he fell down a railway embankment on to the line . |
| 14 | Every job that I give Kevin I write down a , a brief summary of what that task was , and I leave a gap of three lines . |
| 15 | We scrambled up the hillside on the left bank of an enormous river which thundered down a precipitous cascade of rapids into a foaming cauldron , raging with wind-whipped mist . |
| 16 | A man who gunned down a drugs dealer who supplied his sons with cannibis , has been jailed for life . |
| 17 | The campaigners all live within sight of Silverhill Colliery which shut down a year ago . |
| 18 | He opened his mouth to speak but his words were drowned by a volley of musket fire nearby and the crash of a round shot which brought down a shower of plaster on the heads of his audience . |
| 19 | But it was worse before , after I had a shower it went down a bit , but it was really red and . |
| 20 | On the way into the office she fell down a flight of stairs and was injured . |