Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] 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 | Taczek hoisted his fist and smacked it down on the table with a hollow bang . |
| 5 | I took out the 8000 and put them down on the table . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The boy came in through the back carrying Russell 's blanket roll and carbine and put them down on the passenger bench . |
| 8 | The boy carried me in my travelling box , and put me down on the beach , while he looked for birds ' eggs among the rocks . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And she slammed it down on the desk . |
| 11 | ‘ He got what he wanted and slammed it down on the counter . |
| 12 | Cranston stuck his red , bulbous nose into a tankard , took one slurp and slammed it down on the table . |
| 13 | Sir John drained his tankard and slammed it down on the table . |
| 14 | Surprisingly , Cranston agreed , drained the cup and slammed it down on the table . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She took hold of it and put it down on the floor . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Carew folded the paper and put it down on the cluttered tray beside him . |
| 19 | From one of the voluminous pockets he produced a bottle of Scotch and put it down on the table . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Julia got out of bed , took the tray back from Annunziata , put it down on the chest of drawers and hugged her . |
| 23 | Nick closed his book , put it down on the scorched grass beside him and got out his pipe . |
| 24 | Well put it down on the table for a minute then . |
| 25 | Just put it down on the side there . |
| 26 | Just dragged me into the building , threw me down on the floor , made a lot of noise and left . ’ |
| 27 | He flicked through them , then threw them down on the table . |
| 28 | I was told they sent for a nurse who came at me with a needle so I grabbed her by the breast and threw her down on the hors d'oeuvres . |
| 29 | In the later seventeenth century a French duke turned it down on the grounds that his father , by holding it , had accumulated debts of 200,000 livres . |
| 30 | John Major is understood to have offered her a junior minister 's job at the Home Office , but she turned it down on the grounds that it was not sufficiently senior . |