Example sentences of "[vb past] down [det] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gulped down some orange juice hastily . |
| 2 | Inside the pump-house there was little more to do , but they smashed the transformer oil pipes with sledge-hammers and threw down some tar baby incendiaries . |
| 3 | Remember we went down that slate mine ? |
| 4 | For example , in many mammals growing males lay down less body fat than females ( Glucksman , 1974 ) and suffer heavier mortality during periods of food shortage as a consequence ( Clutton-Brock et al . , |
| 5 | He would go down into the cellar tomorrow and put down some rat poison . |
| 6 | And as he closed the window of his room against the night frost , he was afraid to look out on the hills in case he heard angels sing and the other folk in the home would dismiss the story because of the two , long drawn out drinks he had before sleep closed down another Christmas Day . |