Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the day I spoke to him , his wizened granite-faced skipper Kepler Wessels ( who is almost the antithesis of Rhodes ) had sat down and spoken to the 22-year-old from Natal about his game . |
| 2 | Because even if you you have sat down and spoken to somebody about the project for five minutes , and given them all the other information , |
| 3 | He was on the run for forty-three days , sheltering for part of the time in a cornfield , being fed occasionally by sympathetic French farmers , but was hunted down and sent to captivity in Belgium . |
| 4 | Wills were normally made shortly before death , as many a shaky signature can testify ; some people left it so late that they could only make an oral statement ( or nuncupative will ) , which was written down and sworn to by witnesses . |
| 5 | Those which emit pollutants above designated levels are to be closed down or switched to other work . |
| 6 | The outer door to the estate office slammed and the inner one opened with its uneasy stick and snuffle past the strips of draught-excluders worn down and added to over the years . |
| 7 | ‘ At night the corpses are cut down and taken to the great lime pits near Charterhouse . ’ |
| 8 | That left two days of filming available before the sets had to be taken down and returned to the owners . |
| 9 | This usually just rests in place ( it 's rather heavy ) , but where inspection chambers are inside a house ( unusual except where an extension has been built on ) , the manhole is screwed down and has to be specially sealed . |
| 10 | In the heart of the press one or two died of suffocation , and many were ridden down and crushed to death under the horses ' feet . |