Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] down [art] [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 gulp down the orange drink and order another one . |
| 3 | I cut down a big tree , and then began to make a long hole in it . |
| 4 | So I put down a hundred thousand in cash and took out an eighty-thousand mortgage . ’ |
| 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 broadest thoroughfare on the island , that which leads to the harbour . |
| 8 | I walk down the steep flight of stairs . |
| 9 | I run down the spiral staircase and along the empty corridor . |
| 10 | I scramble down a muddy , leaf-littered bank and into a chilly stream at the bottom ; it flows over one boot and I whisper , ‘ Shit ’ and squelch up the far bank , holding onto the cold branches of bushes and the mud-slimy roots of trees . |
| 11 | When I drive down the same street in my Ferrari they extend a finger . ’ |
| 12 | When I go down a steep or longish hill , braking on the engine , by the time I 've reached the bottom the engine seems to be suffering from fuel starvation and consequently refuses to go up the other side . |
| 13 | Yeah , yeah , like I come down the other week and I |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Look here , you hold down a difficult and sensitive job . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You know where I 've put you know down the bottom end of the garden , th that little bit of digging ? |
| 19 | But it , it just goes to show you that , you know if you , if if you go down the structured way , it does work . |
| 20 | You slide down the social classes and you move to areas like Hackney . |
| 21 | Yeah but what happens when you come down the other end ? |
| 22 | We run down the other end and have a go at Sunderland fans … and like against Villa when they all got pushed onto the pitch … we 're all in there … |
| 23 | On the way back from the classical ruins of Byblos in an old red and green school bus , co-opted by the bus company for the tourist trade , we drive down the coastal highway into Beirut from the north , towards Martyrs ' Square , so soon to become the front line . |
| 24 | As we continue down the stratigraphical column we find examples in other kinds of sediment and in other kinds of quite high energy facies . |
| 25 | as in this case we go down the three column , the three is a in the numerator N one , right , till we reach seventeen , right , and now test to see if it 's three point two right , so if we |
| 26 | The pivot row is determined by the PRS rule and it may be an explicit row , in which case we pivot as usual , or an implicit row , in which case we write down the complete row using ( 7.2 ) or ( 7.3 ) and pivot using this row . |
| 27 | All the matches are wet , so we cram down a few handfuls of cheese and boiled sweets . |
| 28 | We thunder down the cold stone stairs |
| 29 | Ours usually want twenty four and what our garage usually do , if you take it earlier they put down the twenty fourth of February |
| 30 | They cut down the flowery mass |