Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griffith now heated his rods in the middle and drew them down to thinner and thinner fibres which after cooling he also broke in tension . |
| 2 | Supposing she let them down after dear Franz Busacher had connived and wheedled to make her acceptable to Gesner ? |
| 3 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |
| 4 | He heard her sigh deeply , the way she always did when he let her down in some way . |
| 5 | And I went through them and I I narrowed it down to three things now . |
| 6 | That dropped me down from second place . ’ |
| 7 | The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength , and more strength he had just summoned , into the fish 's side just behind the great chest fill that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man 's chest . |
| 8 | He eventually whittled it down to eighteen thousand and his successors have since reduced the number even more dramatically . |
| 9 | While he was there he learnt to fly with the University Air Squadron and was in despair when , on the outbreak of war , the RAF initially turned him down on medical grounds . |
| 10 | Then he hosed him down with warm water until all traces of the beck had been removed . |
| 11 | Aha that was just went in It was all blown to the side and that was it was kept just for the for the carol beasts for the sheds you see , for the that was what the what we saw what they bedded them down with that . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Until he cut it down in later years , his run-up was extremely long — and his saunter back to his mark extremely slow — but the speed that it generated undoubtedly justified the length , and the grace of it all was an aesthetic delight . |
| 14 | When children came running to them for sweets , they scythed them down with automatic fire . |
| 15 | I talked him down at one point |
| 16 | ‘ We eventually tracked her down at this dreadful apartment block . |
| 17 | By the time we got her address and tracked her down to some miserable tower block in Hackney , discovered she did n't know any English and found someone who could speak Gujarati , it was late afternoon . ’ |
| 18 | She had promoted herself into the film 's second editor , and slowed it down to normal at the bits she liked , and thought we would appreciate . |
| 19 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 20 | She poured herself an uncustomary drink , and grimacing , swallowed it down in two gulps . |
| 21 | I finally worked it down to two alternatives . |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | Then we broke it down into smaller components to set us scale it down . ’ |
| 24 | Rather than taking the piece as a whole she broke it down into smaller parts and then worked on them with separate hands and at varied rhythms . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 27 | Since they 're only at the start of their two-month US tour , BMG sent them down to Next for some smart fashions . |
| 28 | Brought him down to four weeks . |
| 29 | The raging young lad raised the chopper above his head and brought it down with tremendous force . |
| 30 | And I brought it down to half a dozen staff . |