Example sentences of "[vb past] it down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I went through them and I I narrowed it down to three things now . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He eventually whittled it down to eighteen thousand and his successors have since reduced the number even more dramatically . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | She poured herself an uncustomary drink , and grimacing , swallowed it down in two gulps . |
| 8 | I finally worked it down to two alternatives . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | Then we broke it down into smaller components to set us scale it down . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The raging young lad raised the chopper above his head and brought it down with tremendous force . |
| 13 | And I brought it down to half a dozen staff . |
| 14 | took it down to that shop and er , it was , I got it from there and it was ten pound ! |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | It was an art er if you look Aye , all the time you cleared it down with this , you see ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | ‘ I saw it at the doctor 's on the board — an ’ I wrote it down after last week — I did n't know what else to do . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She ate it in her hand and washed it down with several glasses of Tizer . |
| 23 | The feasters attacked great joints of beef and mutton and venison , picked at pheasant and partridge , munched apples and pears and sweet onions , nibbled at cheese and rye bread , and washed it down with more beer . |
| 24 | 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 . |