Example sentences of "[vb base] down [pos pn] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Give me my bill , ’ I said to the man behind the desk , ‘ and bring down my suitcase in half an hour . ’ |
| 2 | The SSA would not normally condone betting , but for a good cause head office staff are positively encouraged to have a flutter by SSA chairman On February 5 around 8O people put down their stakes for four horse and four videoed greyhound races . |
| 3 | But note , too , as you examine such clues in the hands of masters of the craft , that almost always they put down their clues with a fine boldness . |
| 4 | Those the people that have been there and put down their names on it ? |
| 5 | There appears no civilised pale where they can remove their armour and let down their guard for any length of time . |
| 6 | She cut out her morning bathe , cut down her luncheon to minutes , stuck to work till the end of the afternoon ( Concentrate , Do n't stop : if Michel can do his kind of reading in an open car in the street … ) . |
| 7 | Though he was shorter than Jezrael , he had a tendency to put back his bullet head and sneer down his nose at her . |
| 8 | She paused with her ribbon in her hand and tossed her hair loose down her back without plaiting it up again , to please Finn , although he was uncouth . |
| 9 | And they look down their noses at schemes devised by builders which may offer £100 a month to encourage a potential purchaser of their existing home . |
| 10 | Simon , s brother , John , saw himself as one of the new breed of Conservatives , who were not bound by class ; yet he complained at length about other branches who ‘ look down their noses at us ’ . |
| 11 | It 's just that New York fashion people look down their noses at you unless you 're a graduate of a fancy school of design . ’ |
| 12 | Rabbits often disappear down their holes at great speed and without slowing up , so they clearly need an excellent assessment of exactly where to jump , to avoid bumping into the sides of their front entrance . |
| 13 | Indeed we may inhibit their development if we force them to use unfamiliar approaches which slow down their thinking in the cause of a mistaken view of what it is to work systematically . |
| 14 | If people were not to assume she was talking down to them she had to speed up her presentation and tone down her air of authority . |
| 15 | Again she felt the same shiver down her back like an electric current . |
| 16 | Early in 1987 , a memo was circulated to all Harvard staff assuring them that Harvard would still be in business that time the following year and that appeal options would be taken up , should the Stock Exchange turn down their application for membership . |
| 17 | The official Energy Efficiency Unit suggests these cheap , easy ways of saving on heating costs : TO cut your bill by 10 per cent turn down your thermostat by one degree Centigrade . |
| 18 | It 's an annual ritual for the National Trust , as they close down their properties for the winter break . |
| 19 | He allowed Jane to sit him by the table and then damp down his hair with water — ice cold and brackish ! — from the ewer . |
| 20 | But there again er it was the time we lived in and you had certain Well yards had their own way of trying to keep track of when a guy was in a toilet etcetera and sometimes you would have to hand in y your er your time ticket , to the toilet attendant , and you would give him this ticket and he would say right you are , you know , and mark down your number on a book and say to you , well you 've got seven minutes or something you know . |
| 21 | Monetarists stress the function of money as a medium of exchange and play down its role as a store of wealth . |
| 22 | Write down your liabilities in this column |
| 23 | Whichever you go , write down your interpretation of what you think you have agreed with the client and sign it and send it to him . |
| 24 | On your own , write down your answers to these questions . |
| 25 | Write down your assets in this column |
| 26 | Write down your payoffs for being a martyr . |
| 27 | For each picture , write down your explanation of the problem and how you think it should be solved . |
| 28 | If mankind knew to whom it should be grateful , do n't you think they would come storming up the hill and burn down your tower with all its foul secrets ? ’ |
| 29 | So you can work out in advance the question there is , and try and condense down , prepare your answers mentally , prepare for those question areas , and condense down your arguments to the point where you can put them across succinctly . |
| 30 | If the supply of suitable saplings near the site runs out , they will dig canals leading into the stream and float down their logs from farther away . |