Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Mas Rose she hoped every day to see them riding down the white stony hillside track . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think that she expected me to run down the shot ’ said Emmons , referring to her magnificent dash across the baseline to reach an all but winning forehand from Bentley which would have given her not only the first set , but also the psychological ‘ first blood ’ . |
| 3 | Trickle filter bacteria are well supplied with vital oxygen , allowing them to break down the fish' wastes efficiently . |
| 4 | The adventurers might have to find some information in Castle Drachenfels to enable them to track down the location of Ghal-Maraz , or they might have to ensure that the Great Enchanter remains safely dead and does n't enter the fray . |
| 5 | Mum got me to reach down a tall vase from the mantelshelf . |
| 6 | The whole movement is conceived in cases such as She got me to break down the door , which have been diagrammed as : In this sense , the infinitive can be said to evoke a subsequent actualization , i.e. an event which is actualized as a consequence of a previous event bringing it into being . |
| 7 | It gives local authorities an additional one hundred million pounds to spend when the low level of inflation is helping them keep down the cost of providing their services . |
| 8 | Some say I play down the ‘ grinding toil ’ that is an unavoidable part of it all , so I will not deny that this year it was done by a very small corps of loyal people , several from without the congregation . |
| 9 | Oh well we d did n't know if we were supposed to be congregating with rest of the people , or what so we just wandered we wandered down the hall |
| 10 | ‘ In the meantime I suggest we cut down the cross-referencing . |
| 11 | This causes him to fold down the top half of the newspaper , to see if I have set off , and to lose his place . |
| 12 | Has he watered down the stock ? |
| 13 | He let it slither down the roof to the building 's guttering . |
| 14 | ‘ Let me sit down a minute , ’ I begged . |
| 15 | Despite their bare feet , our young guides strolled nonchalantly across these sections , apparently unconcerned that a single slip could send them plummeting down the mountainside . |
| 16 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 17 | She could almost feel him smiling down the line . |
| 18 | You can now unscrew the nut and let it slide down the pipe as you do n't need it now . |
| 19 | Let it cool down a bit . |
| 20 | It was very common that the duty wag at the time would make a little paper boat , and probably get some fat or grease from some convenient part of the ship , He would then set light to this and let it sail down the waterway whilst there was a great row of people sitting attending to their needs of nature . |
| 21 | Trent found a boulder on the edge of the ravine which he prised loose so that a light push would send it crashing down the ridge and he hid one of the shotguns at the foot of a solitary pine . |
| 22 | Rumours of something new would send us rolling down the ever widening highways . |
| 23 | Erm but if this trend continues , I can see them shooting down the activities side of this this place and just using it as an advice centre . |
| 24 | He knew about them investigations , that I was being watched , and he could have told me to slow down a bit . |
| 25 | Save you walking down the . |
| 26 | Now in number one I 'd just like you to write down an answer in your own way to this question . |
| 27 | it 'll only be shorter , it wo n't keep you warm down the bottom , yeah and here on the neck it 's , alright you can tell me the colour of , but it , it is quite |
| 28 | It disturbed him to think of her father perhaps waking to hear him tiptoe down the passage like a shifty thief afraid of discovery . |
| 29 | And Hayling had told him to tone down the politics to smooth away advertisers ' fears that it was going to be a Commie rag . |
| 30 | We 'd all kept away from it ever since the priest had had it pulled down the month before . |