Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] down in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 2 | To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church . |
| 3 | I never give up on people — even those who have let me down in the past . |
| 4 | Well , Marcus said he 'd come and see Pat , and Ludens is driving him down in the Bentley ! |
| 5 | Yes , could you say that just a little louder , I 'm not sure that they caught it down in the lower basement . |
| 6 | And puts it into roast in the oven , and takes it out after fifty minutes and then you get Philadelphia cheese and white wine melt it down in the wine |
| 7 | And the chauffeur drove me down in the car and sat beside the car waiting on me . |
| 8 | But I just said put them down in the book . |
| 9 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 10 | ‘ Why do n't yer chuck it down in the dustbin ? ’ he suggested . |
| 11 | And just filled a net basket of eggs and put it down in the in the water and the water flowed through it kind of . |
| 12 | I looked at it accusingly , then put it down in the cradle . |
| 13 | I mean I one of the things that I 've always sort of had in mind is that we put it down in the reception area . |
| 14 | He did not know if she had written it down in the letter , or if the cake was to be his punishment for all the bad things he had done . |
| 15 | Complete Works is , in some ways , easier to use and incorporates some nice ideas , but the problems I had trying to link charts , table and spreadsheets together let it down in the end . |
| 16 | He threw himself down in the chair , like a man beset by demons . |
| 17 | A car will follow you down in the ambulance and they 'll send a guard from Headquarters to stay with you once you get there . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |
| 19 | All of them enthusiastic — questions are coming think and fast , not at the end of a lecture — I think we actually slightly dominate them because we 're not school teachers , but quote with a big U ‘ University lecturers ’ , but get them down in the laboratory and the questions come thick and fast from boys and girls — no difference whatsoever . |
| 20 | In the wild , a fish can get around this problem by absorbing much bigger molecules and then breaking them down in the gut wall or bloodstream . |
| 21 | ‘ She 's twelve years old , nice old girl , good mouth and nice manners which puts her ahead of some women — and she wo n't set you down in the dirt . |
| 22 | It 's almost impossible to put him down in the tackle , and there are few players about who you an say that . |
| 23 | He preferred to forget about those , or to pretend to himself that ‘ the real Marie ’ had not sent that bottle crashing into the wall by his head , or hunted him down in the darkness of the tunnels . |
| 24 | Set it down in the fire . |
| 25 | Birmingham Polytechnic offer all their facilities absolutely free of charge to us so get yourself down in the entertainment bar in Aston . |
| 26 | Money has driven them deeper into the planet , money has brought them down in the world … |
| 27 | Japan said that it intended to build up its military forces to a high level so that it could cut them down in the interests of peace . |
| 28 | We ca n't have you down in the dumps like this . |
| 29 | Billie , now having accepted Jenny as someone who could be trusted , settled herself down in the rear , albeit cramped , and spent most of the flight asleep . |
| 30 | She did not like flying and the mental energy involved in getting through the ordeal without flinging herself down in the aisle and drumming her heels was considerable . |