Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] down on [art] " 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 and Ken we used to write it down on a bit of paper who had what and who owed what and
5 Taczek hoisted his fist and smacked it down on the table with a hollow bang .
6 I took out the 8000 and put them down on the table .
7 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 .
8 The boy came in through the back carrying Russell 's blanket roll and carbine and put them down on the passenger bench .
9 The boy carried me in my travelling box , and put me down on the beach , while he looked for birds ' eggs among the rocks .
10 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 .
11 And she slammed it down on the desk .
12 ‘ He got what he wanted and slammed it down on the counter .
13 Cranston stuck his red , bulbous nose into a tankard , took one slurp and slammed it down on the table .
14 Sir John drained his tankard and slammed it down on the table .
15 Surprisingly , Cranston agreed , drained the cup and slammed it down on the table .
16 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 .
17 Till you put it down on a on a field .
18 She took hold of it and put it down on the floor .
19 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 .
20 Carew folded the paper and put it down on the cluttered tray beside him .
21 From one of the voluminous pockets he produced a bottle of Scotch and put it down on the table .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Julia got out of bed , took the tray back from Annunziata , put it down on the chest of drawers and hugged her .
25 Nick closed his book , put it down on the scorched grass beside him and got out his pipe .
26 Well put it down on the table for a minute then .
27 Just put it down on the side there .
28 The H B F figure for Greater York was twelve thousand three hundred , the Barton Willmore figure was twelve thousand seven hundred , but they did break it down on a district basis , and they gave five six five o to Ryedale , and then Michael Courcier , represented by Mr Sedgewick , a much more modest figure of ten thousand six hundred , for Greater York .
29 Just dragged me into the building , threw me down on the floor , made a lot of noise and left . ’
30 He flicked through them , then threw them down on the table .
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