Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] down to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps you could help Cook to wash up , ’ she suggested , bringing me down to earth with a bang . |
| 2 | She does n't avoid the painful issues that divide us — but , as few writers can , she makes us laugh at them and bring them down to size . |
| 3 | Sin therefore reduces God to man 's image , scales him down to man 's size and substitutes man 's view of God for God himself . |
| 4 | ‘ Shall I bring them down to Water Gypsy this evening , or will you come up to Chimneys to see them ? ’ |
| 5 | Thousands of students , particularly from Beijing , were sent to undertake ‘ social practice ’ during the summer vacation in the hope that contact With ‘ real life ’ would bring them down to earth and give them a more realistic assessment of society . |
| 6 | It really does bring everything down to earth . |
| 7 | why ca n't you send him down to court ? |
| 8 | So the way he 's , is n't it the way he 's dressed for that is fine , but you ca n't send him down to court like that . |
| 9 | Put it down to exhaustion after too much cricket ! |
| 10 | They put it down to indecision and the overwhelming charms of both suitors . |
| 11 | Put it down to luck . |
| 12 | That surprised me and I put it down to Christmas and a slight slackening of my efforts . |
| 13 | Then shower — ‘ Acqua Fredda ’ , cold spray to tone and give elasticity to the skin and bring you down to earth . |
| 14 | Such ruthless honesty certainly cuts me down to size , ’ he said idly . |
| 15 | Well my other car is a nineteen twenty nine V six Bentley , which will do a hundred mile an hour , so if I drive them alternately it cuts me down to size . |
| 16 | They sucked it and licked it down to size . |
| 17 | While there are problems in the class , … when I looked at the programme I could see that problems that are caused because you are not explaining yourself , you are not getting them down to work , they do n't understand what they 're doing . |
| 18 | A family just keeps you down to earth . |
| 19 | Well , Herman Schrijver says he will hire a car when the warm weather comes and drive her down to lunch with me in the Green Belt … . |
| 20 | When Mother — the marvellous Avis Bunnage , resisting all temptation to caricature — calls him down to breakfast , Crawford descends from the flies in a parachute . |
| 21 | When the guard was told that no one had moved from their seats he became very worried because he said he had to make out a report to British Rail as to the cause of the delay and he then said , ‘ I 'll have to put it down to person or persons unknown ’ . |
| 22 | Girls can be praised for paying boys back in their own currency , for cutting them down to size , or for challenging the male domination of the music business . |
| 23 | Remove old , unproductive fruit trees by cutting them down to shoulder height before using the stump as a lever to help dig out all the roots . |
| 24 | At eighteen , in love with love , she 'd accepted his ring and walked on air until common sense had brought her down to earth and made her realise that marriage to him would be a total disaster . |
| 25 | Was this his way of cutting her down to size ? |
| 26 | We 'll force him down to Dane End or Watton . ’ |
| 27 | When the time came , he would cut him down to size . |
| 28 | If they have n't got it well He said if , I can always cut it down to size and that . |
| 29 | and sort it out , let me know and then I will take it down to work |
| 30 | This leads naturally to the splendid definitions of love in chapter ten as Rolle anticipates the disciple bringing him down to earth with a question : " You talk a great deal about love but what is it ? |