Example sentences of "[pers pn] down [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It needed people to work all night sending out subscription copies , getting them down to the all-night post office . |
| 2 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 3 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 4 | When they boarded the glittering red , gold and green floating restaurant , the maître d ’ took them down to the fresh fish display in the base . |
| 5 | Within the hour they were out into the countryside , following the track which would lead them down to the old Roman road . |
| 6 | And he had taken them down into the Southern Ocean , not as far as we were going , but far enough to be in amongst the ice , circumnavigating the whole land mass of Antarctica in waters no man had ever sailed before . |
| 7 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
| 8 | He reached towards her with his strong hands and pressed them down on the fine-boned structure of her shoulders , massaging with rhythmic , kneading movements . |
| 9 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Incineration is the most appropriate disposal method for many wastes which can be rendered harmless only by breaking them down through the controlled use of heat . |
| 12 | The steward took them down beyond the Great Hall into a vast , stone-flagged kitchen . |
| 13 | Their path took them down beyond the Technical College and the School of Art building , where Buddie and two of his sisters posed as living models for the students . |
| 14 | Coming from eighty throats , it swept with them down from the wooded foothills and made them sound like a flock of scavenging birds disturbed from their carcass . |
| 15 | Skirting a tinker camp , Mrs M. eventually put me down beside the fast-flowing River Moy at Ballina . |
| 16 | He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station . |
| 17 | A bell tolled , the sign for Compline , and Lady Amelia led him down through the darkened cloister out across the grass to the church . |
| 18 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 19 | I threw some of the water from the bowl over my own face and drank the rest for I was thirsty , then followed him down to the Great Hall . |
| 20 | At first she could n't find him anywhere but finally she tracked him down to the big barn . |
| 21 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |
| 22 | And you know , so often you and I , we have questions that we want to bring to the Lord , if only was here in person , if only we could sit him down in the front room , how many things we would have to ask of him ! |
| 23 | You held her down for the other one . |
| 24 | She was hit and caught fire while going in to attack at low level and her pilot Don MacIntyre brought her down on the frozen surface of nearby Lake Hocklingen . |
| 25 | Michele caught her and , carrying her back into the living-room , put her down on the long couch . |
| 26 | This strange , remote , eagle creature , whose body was bathed in incandescence from the fire , except that it was not quite the fire ; whose eyes were dark with passion , and whose arms , strong and safe , were enveloping her , and laying her down on the thick fur rugs before the fire … |
| 27 | No , Caroline thought , as she let him lead her down to the ancient ground , no , it had n't . |
| 28 | We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House . |
| 29 | Its crassness repelled her but it slid inside her because she recognized it as her name and suddenly there was a dark pit , a chasm , a void , and the gravity of being dragged her down into the dark heart of weight . |
| 30 | A tallish hummock loomed , and he pulled her down into the wet grass behind it . |