Example sentences of "[pers pn] down [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after ‘ tedious battering the top thereof with pick-axes ’ did they eventually undermine two of its six sides bringing them down and leaving the tower in the state in which it is today . |
| 2 | He probably wanted to pull them down and re-develop the site . |
| 3 | They were very attractive and they did have the advantage that you could take them down and plunge the whole thing in water and wash it and er |
| 4 | She took one or two of them down and turned the pages over , trying to persuade herself she was reading them . |
| 5 | Cadillac knew otherwise and suggested the RAC take three identical cars from its showroom , strip them down and scramble the parts . |
| 6 | If the walls separating the two are of the partition rather than supporting variety you could take them down and incorporate the space into one much larger room which will make more family sense . |
| 7 | Then fall down to the left and shift right ; the ghost should follow you down and scare the blue guard away . |
| 8 | When I reached Sid , someone had brought him down and extinguished the flames . |
| 9 | I took her inside the house and tried to calm her down and called the police . |
| 10 | The loop will now be round the person 's body and all you have to do is to pull it down and ask the volunteer to step out of it . |
| 11 | It was an old house there and that 's what she said , it was derelict , they knocked it down and rebuilt the new one . |
| 12 | She lifted it down and read the brief note inside . |
| 13 | After the sketch came the paint — black paint , and a lot of ‘ turps ’ to water it down and divide the picture into blocks of light and shadow . |