Example sentences of "[verb] it down to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they 've all got their own washing machines on the ward and that sort of thing , whereas we had to do it by hand and then bundle it all up and send it down to the laundry . |
| 2 | He 's going to rot it , which means he 's going to record it off transmission , and then pump it down , send it down to the General News Service in London for consideration by W A T O which is World At One . |
| 3 | All that remains is to wrap the covering material round and glue it down to the boards . |
| 4 | Insiders put it down to the pressure of competing for six and seven figure salaries . |
| 5 | I put it down to the necessity for him to exhibit his physical superiority from time to time , in order to maintain his ‘ throne ’ and his following of stooges . |
| 6 | ‘ Put it down to the movement of the ship . |
| 7 | You argue with one another and put it down to the fact that people who are prejudiced are ignorant . |
| 8 | Again I put it down to the stresses of presenting a live programme five days a week . |
| 9 | Put it down to the wine ! |
| 10 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 11 | Shannon had , rather uncharitably , put it down to the lure of the man 's fame — people simply liked to be close to the famous . |
| 12 | No , because er I always put it down to the fact that most of our takings were in coin , it was very seldom that you had a pound note , you possibly had a ten pound note in those days but most of it was coinage and the cash when it was married up , was put into steel bound wooden boxes . |
| 13 | Some put it down to the sheer popularity of the winner Nigel Jones — others to the alleged racism of would-be Tory voters , unwilling to endorse the party 's official candidate , the barrister John Taylor . |
| 14 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll hide in the boat and the river will carry it down to the bridge . |
| 16 | I would send it swooping over and under hers , or dive it down to the sands while I stood on a dune cliff , pulling the kite down to nick tall towers of sand I 'd built , then pulling up again , the kite trailing a spray of sand through the air from the collapsing tower . |
| 17 | In other words , if you pay approximately £50 a quarter for your telephone rental then round it up to £60 ( it helps if you overestimate expenditure ) and break it down to the monthly sum of £20 . |
| 18 | And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent . |
| 19 | Pulling it down to the earth |
| 20 | He gave her the rake and she went vigorously at the hay while he plaited a grass rope to put round a burden and heft it down to the byre . |
| 21 | He had n't known whether to put it down to the fact that she imagined he was being left outside the camaraderie of the brothers or that in some strange way she was laying claim on him . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll need some help to wrap it up and get it down to the car . |
| 23 | Well I 'd start with wood and er get something rough to work off and then , use me head as I say , get it down to the requirements on the , on the paper and then start to produce eventually , you know and er |
| 24 | Evidently deciding that prudery was the better part of valour , I hotfooted it down to the bedroom again in time to witness half the ceiling crashing in flames on to the bed I had been sleeping in moments before . |
| 25 | For more than a hundred and fifty years , the wily Scots continued to distil their whisky , smuggling it down to the towns and cities , and outwitting the hated excise officers and revenue men , who are today the stuff of legend . |
| 26 | I 'm breaking it down to the cake again . |
| 27 | He lay quietly , with a comfortable feeling of pleasant anticipation of the day before him , imagining his mother in her pale blue Sunday outfit getting her European car out of the garage and manoeuvring it down to the United church . |
| 28 | In the evenings , when Kāli brought the cows home , we 'd take it down to the stable to its mother and she would stretch out her nose to it and blow , and the breath would come out as steam in the cold , evening air . |
| 29 | ‘ Then tomorrow , you can take it down to the oven and tell them to put it at the bottom , so it -cooks really slowly , to keep it moist . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Tomorrow we will take it down to the village church . ’ |