Example sentences of "[verb] it down on the " in BNC.
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1 | Taczek hoisted his fist and smacked it down on the table with a hollow bang . |
2 | And she slammed it down on the desk . |
3 | ‘ He got what he wanted and slammed it down on the counter . |
4 | Cranston stuck his red , bulbous nose into a tankard , took one slurp and slammed it down on the table . |
5 | Sir John drained his tankard and slammed it down on the table . |
6 | Surprisingly , Cranston agreed , drained the cup and slammed it down on the table . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | She took hold of it and put it down on the floor . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Carew folded the paper and put it down on the cluttered tray beside him . |
11 | From one of the voluminous pockets he produced a bottle of Scotch and put it down on the table . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Julia got out of bed , took the tray back from Annunziata , put it down on the chest of drawers and hugged her . |
15 | Nick closed his book , put it down on the scorched grass beside him and got out his pipe . |
16 | Well put it down on the table for a minute then . |
17 | Just put it down on the side there . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | But Bush waited , and then he took something out of his pocket and threw it down on the desk . |
21 | so , anyway , I just , we 've got it down on the floor and I says if we had a brown suite |
22 | Her mother handed her a glass of white wine , so generously filled that Kate was obliged to take a long sip before it was safe to put it down on the small table by the side of the chair . |
23 | A wave caught the mast , lifting it high and then slamming it down on the cabin roof . |
24 | Mr Gillis seemed to delight in slamming it down on the top of the tousled head below . |
25 | the man said , lifting the card machine from behind the counter and slamming it down on the top . |
26 | As you recall that successful scene , whenever something comes up that you enjoyed jot it down on the sheet entitled ‘ I would like more of this ! ’ |
27 | Quietly , humbly , Cameron took off his headset and set it down on the floor . |
28 | I carried a tray across and set it down on the table in the window . |
29 | They set it down on the floor in the middle of the room , as the T'ang had instructed them earlier , then backed away , heads lowered . |
30 | He emptied his cup and set it down on the table . |