Example sentences of "[verb] them down [prep] the " 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 The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing .
5 Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again .
6 Stooping , he grabbed up the letters and stuffed them down behind the chair cushion just as the door opened and his sister walked in .
7 Galway will still go in as underdogs — an unusual position for them — but one that should suit them down to the ground .
8 We shift them down to the so they could n't get onto the cultivated land .
9 To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church .
10 THE Tranmere Rovers players were so high on good publicity before this match that their manager , John King , said he would have to pull them down from the ceiling .
11 Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling .
12 Allow the applied force gradually to separate your knees , driving them down to the mat .
13 If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter .
14 Make the patchwork on the shells by spreading the glue over a small area , laying on scraps of cloth and pressing them down with the damp cloth .
15 The last recommendation was seized upon by critics who calculate that storing the most frequently-used books high up in the four towers will create a considerable time delay in transporting them down to the reading areas .
16 For this take young supple stems and bend them down to the soil .
17 So how does pancreatic lipase , an enzyme that knocks around in the essentially aqueous environment of the small intestine , get to grips with fats and oils and break them down into the glycerol and fatty acids that are readily absorbed by the lining of the gut ?
18 I took out the 8000 and put them down on the table .
19 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 .
20 The boy came in through the back carrying Russell 's blanket roll and carbine and put them down on the passenger bench .
21 But I just said put them down in the book .
22 Like , when they come in here I 'll bring them down to the canteen and let them have Coke and sweets .
23 up until just six years ago crews unhappy about the weight of their cox would bring them down into the brewery for a spot of heavy labour — shovelling mash , to get their weight down .
24 Well we 've fortunately been able to track them down to the waxes which er occur on land so what we 're seeing here is a , an input from the land carried on the dusts which are blown in the winds from the Sahara and other regions out into the Atlantic Ocean .
25 On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night .
26 At the top end , very high-fliers are still in demand , to the extent that recruiters sometimes have difficulty pulling them down from the stratosphere to fill plum vacancies .
27 Lift them from the elbows , and them drop them down to the floor .
28 She threw them down through the trap door and jumped after them to look .
29 He flicked through them , then threw them down on the table .
30 First came the minstrels , yelling war songs , and when they had finished they tore off their mantles and threw them down before the Empress , saying now that they had fought for her such clothes were no longer worthy of them and would she give them new ones ?
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