Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never throw a fork or spade or put it down near your feet . |
| 2 | I would send it swooping over and under hers , or dive it down to the sands while I stood on a dune cliff , pulling the kite down to nick tall towers of sand I 'd built , then pulling up again , the kite trailing a spray of sand through the air from the collapsing tower . |
| 3 | It can involve redrawing the work to show a different scale of projection , or breaking it down into a general drawing or a series of drawings . |
| 4 | ‘ For take-off and landing , each propeller works like a helicopter rotor , pulling the plane into the sky or letting it down on the helipad . |
| 5 | Ensure good contact by pegging in place with wire hoops or weighting it down with a few pebbles . |
| 6 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 7 | Jake drained his coffee-cup and laid it down on the saucer . |
| 8 | Guido drained his champagne glass and laid it down on the wall beside him . |
| 9 | Guido drained his whisky glass and laid it down on a nearby table . |
| 10 | He folded his newspaper and laid it down on a seat beside him . |
| 11 | ‘ I gathered it up , ’ he was to say , ‘ I actually scooped up the evil hungering thing in my arms and carried it into the house and laid it down by the fire . ’ |
| 12 | Then suddenly closing his eyes and clenching his fist and bringing it down on the counter , he said , ‘ Whatever you want to do , for God 's sake ! |
| 13 | He was still by the bomb , whacking the sand with his plank , using both hands to hold it and bringing it down with all his strength , jumping up in the air at the same time and yelling . |
| 14 | She took off her jacket and slung it down on the settee . |
| 15 | He reached up in the darkness to take hold of her face and bring it down to his mouth , glad that the murk concealed the satisfaction he wore . |
| 16 | Only the Conservatives will substantially reduce the Community Charge in Oxford , and bring it down to a level that people can afford . |
| 17 | You have started with a high level concept and broken it down into component parts . |
| 18 | You have started with a high level concept and broken it down into component parts . |
| 19 | In supporting the Bill at its Second Reading in the House of Commons , the Minister of State at the Home Office , Mr Alexander Lyon , explained the Bill 's overall purpose thus : ‘ If a man has committed an indiscretion that brings him before the courts and results in his being convicted and penalised , it must be right that after he has served the penalty and lived it down by a substantial period of good conduct thereafter , it should be without meaning for most people of good will . ’ |
| 20 | The lines particularly can be more convenient than transfers because you can simply follow the original artwork like following a map , unwinding from the reel and sticking it down onto the film as you go along — though it can be fiddly on dense or complicated boards . |
| 21 | Bill takes a Coke , rips the ring pull cleanly off like painful bandaging and drinks it down in one , like it was a glass of water . |
| 22 | about five grand at one stage and got it down to three and half , and then he got to six hundred and eighty and they went to court |
| 23 | I think they 've all got their own washing machines on the ward and that sort of thing , whereas we had to do it by hand and then bundle it all up and send it down to the laundry . |
| 24 | All that remains is to wrap the covering material round and glue it down to the boards . |
| 25 | Taczek hoisted his fist and smacked it down on the table with a hollow bang . |
| 26 | ‘ He got what he wanted and slammed it down on the counter . |
| 27 | Cranston stuck his red , bulbous nose into a tankard , took one slurp and slammed it down on the table . |
| 28 | Sir John drained his tankard and slammed it down on the table . |
| 29 | Surprisingly , Cranston agreed , drained the cup and slammed it down on the table . |
| 30 | Vologsky finished the bottle off and slammed it down upon the table . |