Example sentences of "[verb] it down [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 and Ken we used to write it down on a bit of paper who had what and who owed what and
2 The weight of the shot drew it down through the grating and out of his sight like a skittering lizard .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Yes , could you say that just a little louder , I 'm not sure that they caught it down in the lower basement .
6 ‘ I think I narrowed it down after a lot of sifting through .
7 They reckoned They was going to pull it down after the War .
8 All that remains is to wrap the covering material round and glue it down to the boards .
9 Taczek hoisted his fist and smacked it down on the table with a hollow bang .
10 And puts it into roast in the oven , and takes it out after fifty minutes and then you get Philadelphia cheese and white wine melt it down in the wine
11 We found it down by the Seal .
12 well , somebody found it down by the river just at the back of where they live so it must have been somebody round about
13 Thirty had been a party for fifty , and now had honed it down to a fabulous four .
14 ‘ Why do n't yer chuck it down in the dustbin ? ’ he suggested .
15 Rumour had it the owner of the Gazi burned it down for the insurance money .
16 It was heavy for him , he was glad to set it down for a while .
17 And she slammed it down on the desk .
18 ‘ He got what he wanted and slammed it down on the counter .
19 Cranston stuck his red , bulbous nose into a tankard , took one slurp and slammed it down on the table .
20 Sir John drained his tankard and slammed it down on the table .
21 Surprisingly , Cranston agreed , drained the cup and slammed it down on the table .
22 Vologsky finished the bottle off and slammed it down upon the table .
23 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 .
24 The different sorts of Goblins can do this in different ways but the objective is the same : either attack an enemy unit and bog it down in a protracted combat , or stand in the way of an enemy unit to prevent it attacking your core units .
25 Freddie grabbed at his glass and took a quick swig of ale then put it down with a bang on the wooden table .
26 The slogans were in ill-formed , illiterate script and Owen at first put it down as the work of children ; not the children who went to the kuttub , who were infants , but older youths .
27 and among they put it down as the parents er ca n't control her .
28 He had felt the same , momentarily , stepping into the dyeyard at Nicosia , but put it down to a foolish nostalgia .
29 I put it down to a lingering melancholy and sense of impending loss at leaving the melin , even though by now he was in full agreement .
30 But I put it down to a natural wish on Jefferson 's part to protect what for him was a considerable investment in a new club and , if Harley 's new agent had exacted his usual pound , or stone rather , of flesh , a considerable investment in a golf pro .
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