Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allow the applied force gradually to separate your knees , driving them down to the mat . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For a second his eyes met hers and then he came to her quickly , his body covering her own , pressing her down into the softness of the bed , his skin against hers an almost unbearable pleasure . |
| 4 | He would have joined Melissa on the great bed , pressing her down against the coverlet and ravishing her long white neck with passionate kisses . |
| 5 | Well , Marcus said he 'd come and see Pat , and Ludens is driving him down in the Bentley ! |
| 6 | The last recommendation was seized upon by critics who calculate that storing the most frequently-used books high up in the four towers will create a considerable time delay in transporting them down to the reading areas . |
| 7 | He squeezed with all his strength , pushing her down onto the floor , while a raucous parody of the nocturne played fortissimo in his head . |
| 8 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 9 | At the top end , very high-fliers are still in demand , to the extent that recruiters sometimes have difficulty pulling them down from the stratosphere to fill plum vacancies . |
| 10 | Charlie , leading her down to the trash and making the introduction ( ‘ I know you ‘ ve made plans now , and I feel kind of responsible so I talked to one of the other girls . |
| 11 | A moment later , with a curt ‘ Follow me ’ , he was leading her down to the end of the corridor , then along a short passageway off to the right . |
| 12 | She came to stand close and he took her hand , pulling her down to the settee with him . |
| 13 | He moved his pelvis strongly against her own until she squirmed in his arms , then somehow they were across the room and he was forcing her down among the silk cushions of the four-poster , fingers already lifting the thin wool sweater beneath her unbuttoned jacket , seeking the pulsing softness of her breasts with the mark of desire across his face . |
| 14 | The man holding Connelly 's arm pushed it forward , forcing it down onto the largest of the electric rings , holding it there . |
| 15 | And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent . |
| 16 | Pulling it down to the earth |
| 17 | It was he , too , who had once dealt with a particularly troublesome stoat by leading it down among the pheasant coops and so ( at the risk of his own life ) on to a keeper 's gun . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the wild , a fish can get around this problem by absorbing much bigger molecules and then breaking them down in the gut wall or bloodstream . |
| 20 | It needed people to work all night sending out subscription copies , getting them down to the all-night post office . |
| 21 | The miners themselves probably found some sort of lodgings in the area but also spent most of their time living in small draughty shelters or " hutts " built near to their work places only severe weather shifting them down to the valley bottoms . |
| 22 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 23 | I I th would prefer to look at the vacant dwellings as a single entity rather than necessarily splitting them down between the the the various types . |
| 24 | We were expecting you down at the Man in the Moon . |
| 25 | They 'd been feeding it down at the where they give the horses |
| 26 | A wave caught the mast , lifting it high and then slamming it down on the cabin roof . |
| 27 | Mr Gillis seemed to delight in slamming it down on the top of the tousled head below . |
| 28 | the man said , lifting the card machine from behind the counter and slamming it down on the top . |
| 29 | Aim at getting it down onto the ground before it reaches the bank , hooding the clubface by setting the hands well forward , to reduce the effective loft of the club . |
| 30 | He poured out so much passion that she melted against him , completely willing , enslaved , and his hand moved impatiently to the zip of her dress , moving it down until the cool night air on her skin made her shiver . |