Example sentences of "[vb pp] it down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the third ‘ Carry On ’ , the cast had been offered a profit-sharing scheme — and had all turned it down on the advice of their agents , who thought they would be better off getting increased salaries . |
| 2 | He did not know if she had written it down in the letter , or if the cake was to be his punishment for all the bad things he had done . |
| 3 | so , anyway , I just , we 've got it down on the floor and I says if we had a brown suite |
| 4 | Ralph had laid it down in the 1950s . |
| 5 | computers and that and er he left it and he just carried on talking about this that and the other , and he says right I 'm going and he went and he left the game , he 'd brought it down for the kids , he did n't say , you know |
| 6 | Lee took Philippa 's hand from her face and held it to her mouth , then placed it down on the bedcover . |
| 7 | Rose had noticed this and she had put it down to the awe and respect in which the man she so loved was held , and she was loath to see differently now . |
| 8 | On that occasion she had put it down to the letter from Doreen , but now she began to wonder if the real cause of his irritation had stemmed from the fact that he had embraced her . |
| 9 | And like well I said to her I said well then Sandy would have put it down to the fact she did that bad in her ballet . |
| 10 | The thing is I mean if you turn round and just say to them well they 're messing about with all the hours we 've put it down to the erm |
| 11 | So taken it down to the tills at the front , cos they move quicker |
| 12 | And the first was a twelve volt but then we came to a hundred and ten so I just strung it down along the two top wires of the fence and they were live and oh there were about six or nine hen houses attached to the fence with those wires for electricity . |