Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] down [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 2 | I 've pursued him down the disappearing paths of my own psyche . |
| 3 | What 's turn it over I mean it might start I du n no it let , let him down the other morning as well ! |
| 4 | I shadowed her down the tapering passage , all its planes carpet-covered , like four floors . |
| 5 | His hand beneath her elbow , Michele directed her down a short flight of steps to a central sunken garden where Neptune , brandishing a trident , guarded a splashing fountain . |
| 6 | Put it down a little bit we have an asymmetrical . |
| 7 | Oh I put it down the other end . |
| 8 | Yeah , just as a , as a side issue , I am interested that they 've been growing plum tomatoes because each year I hear of more and more people growing plum tomatoes successfully in this country and while we are just on the subject of diseases and things to control them , you may remember that a few weeks ago we were giving advice on how we should dispose of waste garden chemicals and , and we said you ought to pour it down an outside drain . |
| 9 | On the A four two three at Hopcroft 's Holt , there are temporary traffic lights for resurfacing work and er that might slow you down a little bit . |
| 10 | His plight was clearly desperate ; the slightest motion could hurtle him down the remaining few yards of slope and over the lip into the quarry . |
| 11 | When it fails to rise to the occasion , I no longer get rattled and threaten to chop it off with a pair of barber 's scissors , tie it up in a sack and drop it down a deep , dark well . |
| 12 | We used to chase them down a narrow valley with a sheer cliff-wall at the end . ’ |
| 13 | Wycliffe followed him down a carpeted passage to a door at the end , a small room overlooking a regimented back garden with a substantial Swiss-type chalet in the middle of the lawn . |
| 14 | But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion . |
| 15 | They followed her down a narrow passage and into the sunshine beyond . |
| 16 | Susan followed her down a short , dark passage and into the second sitting-room , which , ugly and over-full as it was , looked comparatively cheerful with its blazing fire . |
| 17 | However , they paid little or no attention to her , and Lucy guessed that their minds were too occupied with the exciting venture which would take them down the foaming white waters of the river . |
| 18 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 19 | Is there not a Stanley blade knocking about anywhere where you could just pare it down a wee bit ? |
| 20 | Well , if you put a , just hit it down a little bit , I got , probably wo n't get through , but if you hit it down a little bit to give it a bit of spin it might carry it through . |
| 21 | Well , if you put a , just hit it down a little bit , I got , probably wo n't get through , but if you hit it down a little bit to give it a bit of spin it might carry it through . |
| 22 | In the eyes of Louis , his near-drowning had been an act of self-emasculation , a loss of face tumbling him down the social scale to a level little higher than a peon 's . |
| 23 | Wilcox led her down the broad central aisle , with occasional detours to left and right to point out some particular operation . |
| 24 | That eventually took them down the wide , steep main street of a small town , then the road narrowed , crossed an old stone bridge , and began to climb , leaving behind the houses , the church with its tall , graceful steeple , and the half-timbered buildings . |
| 25 | I thought I would go and take one of the head ones and journey along down to that place and so , you know , is there any chance you slipping me down a good four long ones and if he says no , think again ? |
| 26 | As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 . |
| 27 | Silas appeared to be deep in thought , while Lucy sat wrapped in a gloom which sent her down a dark tunnel to the depths of depression . |
| 28 | The village boys had caught the cassowary that morning , coming on her suddenly in the bush and chasing her down a long slope . |
| 29 | The falling of Burbank , taking us down the moral ladder , and the ‘ saggy bending of the knees ’ of Bleistein , taking us down the evolutionary ladder , lead to the declining ‘ smoky candle end of time ’ which prepares Burbank and the reader to ponder over ‘ Time 's ruins ’ , the etymology of ‘ ruins ’ being important . |
| 30 | The falling of Burbank , taking us down the moral ladder , and the ‘ saggy bending of the knees ’ of Bleistein , taking us down the evolutionary ladder , lead to the declining ‘ smoky candle end of time ’ which prepares Burbank and the reader to ponder over ‘ Time 's ruins ’ , the etymology of ‘ ruins ’ being important . |