Example sentences of "[pers pn] down [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that during those brief immortal moments when I was standing up on the board , walking on water , I too felt like a supreme being , until the ocean cast me down again and turned me once more into a creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the earth . |
| 2 | It takes considerable practice to perfect and if done badly slows you down rather than speeding you up . |
| 3 | ‘ Lachlan , sit you down again and see have I not got a grand idea . |
| 4 | And we 'll probably knock him down anyway because say there 's |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd set her down here and dare her to move while I tickled trout in that stream . |
| 6 | The Doctor pushed her down gently and tried to make her comfortable . |
| 7 | Either pull it down completely or do something quickly . |
| 8 | As we made our way down towards Butter Tubs Pass following the boundary fence , Bill found the head of a freshly killed grouse , possibly the work of a fox , and refused to put it down again but walked along with it head first in his mouth , the neck feathers sticking out like a shuttlecock . |
| 9 | Drain it down again and refill it once more with fresh water , closing air vents one by one as radiators fill up . |
| 10 | I picked up a book , but put it down again and began looking at a tiny red spider on the leaf of a geranium , ad lost count of time . |
| 11 | Scathach led the way to the gate , pulled it down again and mounted his own horse . |
| 12 | After a few seconds she drew it down again and strained her ears . |
| 13 | She placed it down again and sank a little into herself . |
| 14 | Then he laid it down again and sat back in his seat , resting his dark head lightly against the cushions . |
| 15 | But you ca n't even leave it down here and pick it up later |
| 16 | In Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris Lord Denning MR said that by construing a restriction according to the object and intent rule the courts refuse to hold a covenant bad merely because of unskilful drafting and will cut it down so as to reveal its essential reasonableness . |
| 17 | If you do n't want to finish it just put it down there and keep quiet . |
| 18 | If you thought what the people said possessed an intrinsic interest , if you wrote it down verbatim and pictured yourself as a sort of secretary to the outside world , recording something which had its own imaginative value but would otherwise have been lost , then you are one sort of writer — a naturalist . |
| 19 | By his time I was terrified and I do n't ever be so and our teacher took us down below and tried to play games my mind I distinctly howling my . |