Example sentences of "[pers pn] down [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Director Roger Pomphrey 's documentary crew filmed UB40 at home in Brum and followed them down to London with their families and friends . |
| 2 | The illegal payments scandal brought them down to earth with a bump and down into the 3rd division . |
| 3 | To break them down into calls by type of station or something as simple as that . |
| 4 | She started to teach him rhymes and poems and then she would write them down on scraps of paper so that he could follow the letters through when he was on his own . |
| 5 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 6 | Position the six roses between the candles and stick them down with dabs of royal icing . |
| 7 | Arrange these around the edge of the cake , sticking them down with dots of jam . |
| 8 | They felt that he had let them down in front of others . |
| 9 | A very simple way of collecting examples of people talking is to sit them down in front of the camera and get them to talk to it . |
| 10 | Yeah , I know we went in there last week , cos they had these cards , they got those things with six bugs on them , they 're really ugly looking things , Aaron wanted them , he has n't half been playing some tricks on Gary take them down in front of Gary and that Gary 's aagh |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps you could help Cook to wash up , ’ she suggested , bringing me down to earth with a bang . |
| 12 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 13 | Then he moved , brushing past Ward , and at that moment Iris Sunderby reached out , seizing me by the shoulder and letting out a scream as she fell to the ground , pulling me down on top of her . |
| 14 | Who needs to speak to me so urgently that they lie me down on myriads of pebbles by a sun-scorched sea in the southern part of England ? |
| 15 | I offered Benn the chance to fight me in September and he turned me down in favour of fighting Mauro Galvano in Italy . |
| 16 | They scrape me down from head to foot — my torn clothes , my hands , my broken knees , the nose on my face . |
| 17 | ‘ Julia , I hope that you will let me take you down into Florence for dinner tonight ; if we went early , we could stroll a little first and look at one or two of the best exteriors . ’ |
| 18 | I let you down in front of your friends , and I 'm sorry . |
| 19 | British Rail will whisk you down from London in less than an hour . |
| 20 | You think that 's especially true and like say Aberdeen if you go in a shop there and and , at least it used to be the case , and asked for something you be thought you were speaking fine but they would just say , Oh my you down from Orkney for a holiday ? |
| 21 | Once he 's airborne bring him down into hand to hand combat once your cavalry have made contact . |
| 22 | In answer she pulled him down on top of her . |
| 23 | Got him down for Harrow after that , and if he does n't get in , Redfern Park . |
| 24 | And that was the poor old man he was just just about away so they sent for the ambulance and took him down to Forfar to They used to call that the poor house , I do n't know what they call it now but it was the poor house in those |
| 25 | We had organized a helicopter to get him down to London in time . |
| 26 | So the way he 's , is n't it the way he 's dressed for that is fine , but you ca n't send him down to court like that . |
| 27 | This leads naturally to the splendid definitions of love in chapter ten as Rolle anticipates the disciple bringing him down to earth with a question : " You talk a great deal about love but what is it ? |
| 28 | Choking , he shifted one hand from his enemy to claw at his own throat , and instantly the fist that was strangling him heaved him roughly back from the edge and flung him down in safety at the foot of the wall . |
| 29 | The tension in his relationship with Ricky was made worse when he began to needle him , to run him down in front of others . |
| 30 | NORTHERN Ireland Minister Michael Mates was placed on probation last night after John Major publicly slapped him down in front of MPs . |