Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] down on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty |
| 2 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 3 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 4 | As the ethereal strains of Ravel stole through the room , Penry let himself down on the sofa , eyes closed . |
| 5 | Perdita cried unashamedly after they left , fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane . |
| 6 | Neither of them now took notice of Aggie 's returning to the room and seating herself down on the leather couch . |
| 7 | Taczek hoisted his fist and smacked it down on the table with a hollow bang . |
| 8 | Back in his room , he carefully laid himself down on the bed . |
| 9 | When she had finished , he motioned Tam forward first because he was the oldest , and the twelve-year-old boy rushed eagerly across the room to fling himself down on the altar mat . " |
| 10 | Then he flung himself down on the settee . |
| 11 | He sighed and flung himself down on the chair . |
| 12 | I took out the 8000 and put them down on the table . |
| 13 | And if you had paper plates people put them down on the floor , inevitably , somebody got drunk and put their plate on the floor , they were probably thinking about something else , and then the beet juice or the goo or whatever , soaked through the paper plate and onto the carpet and you never , never got it out . |
| 14 | The boy came in through the back carrying Russell 's blanket roll and carbine and put them down on the passenger bench . |
| 15 | The boy carried me in my travelling box , and put me down on the beach , while he looked for birds ' eggs among the rocks . |
| 16 | He 'd managed to track her down on the Friday evening , waiting for several minutes as she was summoned to the communal phone in the hall where she was now a deputy warden . |
| 17 | And she slammed it down on the desk . |
| 18 | ‘ He got what he wanted and slammed it down on the counter . |
| 19 | Cranston stuck his red , bulbous nose into a tankard , took one slurp and slammed it down on the table . |
| 20 | Sir John drained his tankard and slammed it down on the table . |
| 21 | Surprisingly , Cranston agreed , drained the cup and slammed it down on the table . |
| 22 | After the third ‘ Carry On ’ , the cast had been offered a profit-sharing scheme — and had all turned it down on the advice of their agents , who thought they would be better off getting increased salaries . |
| 23 | She took hold of it and put it down on the floor . |
| 24 | I felt disinclined actually to hand to him the piece of paper I was holding , and so put it down on the end of his bed . |
| 25 | Carew folded the paper and put it down on the cluttered tray beside him . |
| 26 | From one of the voluminous pockets he produced a bottle of Scotch and put it down on the table . |
| 27 | He sipped at his wine again , then put it down on the arm of his chair and , keeping a finger and thumb on the stem , twisted it one way , then the other . |
| 28 | She wandered back into the small sitting-room with her mug of tea , put it down on the polished surface of a table but removed it hastily in case it left a tell-tale ring which S. Kettering might complain about in the future . |
| 29 | Julia got out of bed , took the tray back from Annunziata , put it down on the chest of drawers and hugged her . |
| 30 | Nick closed his book , put it down on the scorched grass beside him and got out his pipe . |