Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] down [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum got me to reach down a tall vase from the mantelshelf . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But do be aware that being a little easy-going in working out and rationing your calories can easily allow you to drift down the slippery slope towards being too easy-going to achieve weight loss . |
| 4 | Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me . |
| 5 | But French officials were initially suspicious and the Soviet KGB security police forced him to turn down a French passport . |
| 6 | This causes him to fold down the top half of the newspaper , to see if I have set off , and to lose his place . |
| 7 | Forced it to swallow down the blunted dazzle |