Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] down [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I went through them and I I narrowed it down to three things now . |
| 2 | He eventually whittled it down to eighteen thousand and his successors have since reduced the number even more dramatically . |
| 3 | I followed him down from 2,000 feet — put carb heat on — I was descending as quickly as the helicopter ; we managed to keep him visual . |
| 4 | I talked him down at one point |
| 5 | She poured herself an uncustomary drink , and grimacing , swallowed it down in two gulps . |
| 6 | I finally worked it down to two alternatives . |
| 7 | Tascam made it with a bit of the old ‘ Come All Ye ’ and mouths fell open ‘ aghast ’ when Mr Magic , Sam Woods , placed his assistant in a cabinet , broke it down into five separate pieces , and put her back together again , except that now her head replaced her knee-caps ! |
| 8 | He came through the door and he backed Cati against the rough wall of the hideout and rammed his pelvis against her stomach and pinned her down with one hand flat against her chest and with the other drew his belt through the loops of his soldier 's jacket and slashed her across the face with the buckle doubled against the leather . |
| 9 | Brought him down to four weeks . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Grunte put him down as 16/20 . |
| 12 | When he discovered I could play the piano , whenever we were off together he dragged me down to one of the older lecture rooms in the Medical School basement that happened to possess a piano , to thump out the background beat . |
| 13 | He had a good head for numbers , and recited it all the way down St Martin 's Lane and into Monmouth Street ; then he went in a shop for a coffee and wrote it down on one of the paper napkins . |
| 14 | it 's all I said no it 's not I said I paid me first er payment I said wrote it down on one of those papers |
| 15 | from Budgen 's , when erm ah , you know at Chris , Christmas they had it down at one seventy nine a pound , did n't they ? |
| 16 | At the sink he filled a cup with cold water , drank it down in one gulp , refilled it and handed it to Frankie without comment . |
| 17 | The nose-wheel is normally lifted at seventy knots to rotate at ninety , but because of the wind I held her down to 95 for a clean lift-off at a hundred after a run of a thousand yards or so . |
| 18 | He set it down on one of the small tables , then handed her a paper napkin , a spoon and a fork before giving her one of the bowls . |