Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] down [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm somebody , and I think it was Derek , and I put down Derek as a guess , was supposed to be getting a list of local area MPs to whom I can then write . |
| 2 | Well yes I , I put down comments like that |
| 3 | Oh I go down beach for a few hours really |
| 4 | So I walk , I think , and return to my room where , sitting beside the window , I pin down butterflies from inside my head . |
| 5 | ‘ Through dark doorways you look down flights of stone steps , overhung by great , pink tufts of valerian and ending in a patch of sparkling blue water . ’ |
| 6 | You turn down invitations to anything off-beat . |
| 7 | I mean if you go down Cornmarket in a normal summer , you can hardly hear anything but erm American voices , so it just shows that there is a vast potential there , but it 's getting them here . |
| 8 | If you take down notes by writing from edge to edge of the paper , leaving no blank spaces and no outstanding features , you will make very heavy weather of re-reading the notes during regular study or in preparation for an imminent examination . |
| 9 | We dash abroad at least twice a year ( we dashed over to California last November ) and we dash down South to my daughter 's in Hampshire umpteen times a year and we dash seemingly everywhere in the wake of our grandchildren when on school holidays or visiting but I ( if not so much Bett ) also spend a heck of a lot of time just watching ( I prefer to call it scientifically observing ) the world around me and contemplating . |
| 10 | From a window above me they let down tea in a flask and biscuits as I worked . |
| 11 | Back in Chania , the Calypso bar is filling with elderly Cretan men who click a lot : worry-beads clatter through their fiddling fingers , and they smack down counters on backgammon boards with ferocious violence . |
| 12 | They fasten on theological truths as on an armoury of big sticks , and they rain down blows on their long-suffering faith , belabouring it for being substandard and for failing to believe what it should . |