Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] down the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
| 2 | I fought down the ghastly urge coming up from my stomach . |
| 3 | I gulp down the orange drink and order another one . |
| 4 | At many revolutions per second I came down the green slide into Brixton and beyond . |
| 5 | I put down the empty can . |
| 6 | I walk down the real staircase , but I know , like Lot 's wife knew , that everything is crumbling to a smoke screen behind me , the urge to look back slaps at my face , but there has been enough powder to nothing in my life . |
| 7 | I walk down the steep flight of stairs . |
| 8 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 9 | I run down the spiral staircase and along the empty corridor . |
| 10 | I rushed down the dark passage to the lavatory with both hands at my face . |
| 11 | I looked down the other scores and confirmed that Jack was in about twentieth place , so he would need a very special round today to force his way back among the leaders . |
| 12 | Behold how I lay down the great weight of sorrow I have carried with me so long . |
| 13 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |
| 14 | There was a lot of undergrowth to be cleared so Stephen and I went down the following Saturday ( 17/10/92 ) to cut down and burn the weeds . |
| 15 | I got up , washed , dressed , and Benjamin and I went down the great sweeping wooden staircase . |
| 16 | I went down the wrong route with the referrals and |
| 17 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 18 | I took down the battered , broken-spined A-Z I keep taped to the driver 's sun visor and pretended to be looking something up . |
| 19 | Yeah , yeah , like I come down the other week and I |
| 20 | Instead of returning by the old fence , however , ( which looked much worse from the top ) , I continued down the main ridge until the final spur , but this was just as steep . |
| 21 | This time there was no mistake : I wrote down the genetic formula , and now I can " evolve " insects whenever I want . |
| 22 | For the second period of ten years again I discount down the full agency rates , totalling fifty nine thousand four hundred and twenty one pounds and ninety six pence year yearly , to the sum of forty thousand pounds annually and to apply a multiplier of six , producing the figure of two hundred and forty thousand pounds for the second period . |
| 23 | Later , in a company or people whose paths have crossed throughout the day , promising each other further meetings as they prepare , with a sort of leisured bustle which is its own end , for some special occasion , I stroll down the hard stamped dirt roads from which the heat of day is withdrawing . |
| 24 | Will ye put down the fucking poker ? ’ |
| 25 | If you ignore the rule which tells you to drive down the left- hand side of the road in Britain you may crash your car . |
| 26 | Resting her head wearily against the hard banister rail , she fought down the momentary surge of panic . |
| 27 | She choked down the sudden lump in her throat , rejecting a surge of self-pity she had no need for . |
| 28 | It always seems to me that you 've got a set of results , and if you come to write them up , and you know they 're obviously wrong , you 're going to get a lot more marks if you put down the right values — or what should be the right values — so you end up fiddling things eventually . |
| 29 | She gulped down the proffered glass of Coca-Cola quickly . |
| 30 | After the stale fug in the tiny cabin , she gulped down the clean sea air , the car window wide open . |