Example sentences of "[verb] it down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | She took hold of it and put it down on the floor . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Carew folded the paper and put it down on the cluttered tray beside him . |
| 35 | From one of the voluminous pockets he produced a bottle of Scotch and put it down on the table . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Julia got out of bed , took the tray back from Annunziata , put it down on the chest of drawers and hugged her . |
| 39 | Nick closed his book , put it down on the scorched grass beside him and got out his pipe . |
| 40 | Well put it down on the table for a minute then . |
| 41 | Just put it down on the side there . |
| 42 | See I could , I could just take it round the edge of your carpet , you know , just , if er , if you want me to , if you want me to I 'll , I can lift the edge of your carpet and put it down onto the floor |
| 43 | The chemist drew a chair from his dispensary at the rear of the shop and put it down beside the soaps and talcum powders , the bath salts and the loofahs . |
| 44 | And just filled a net basket of eggs and put it down in the in the water and the water flowed through it kind of . |
| 45 | I looked at it accusingly , then put it down in the cradle . |
| 46 | I mean I one of the things that I 've always sort of had in mind is that we put it down in the reception area . |
| 47 | He did not know if she had written it down in the letter , or if the cake was to be his punishment for all the bad things he had done . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Whatever type of communication system we use , we can break it down into the following parts : ( a ) a source of information ( b ) a device which converts the information into a suitable form for transmission ( c ) the means of communication ( channel of communication ) itself ( d ) perhaps some form of processing circuit(s) at intervals along the way ( e ) a destination for the signal and its conversion into a suitable form ( which is normally that of the original ) and , finally , ( f ) the receiver of the information . |
| 50 | It 's quite a complex manoeuvre and so we 'll break it down into the different parts that changing hands , turning the boat around and changing sides . |
| 51 | Returning to the bedroom she crept back to the bed , raised the knife and without a moment 's thought drove it down into the sleeper 's chest . |
| 52 | Complete Works is , in some ways , easier to use and incorporates some nice ideas , but the problems I had trying to link charts , table and spreadsheets together let it down in the end . |
| 53 | ‘ I 'll hide in the boat and the river will carry it down to the bridge . |
| 54 | So remember you hold it down for the right length and quickly take your hand off , as soon as you 've done it . |
| 55 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Therapist : ‘ You say you feel awful at times ; let's look at that and try and break it down into the physical sensations you feel , the thoughts you have , and how it effects your behaviour . |
| 60 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |