Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | bows you down to the ground , bows you weeping |
| 2 | And road again drops you down into the , you go on the ring road of course , |
| 3 | Instead , it plonks them down on the gravel path and lets them knock about a bit . |
| 4 | And er I went with my dad and got into the cage which takes you down to the pit bottom and er er er immediately the cage left the surface it just dropped like a stone and I myself was frightened that the bottom of the cage collapsed completely . |
| 5 | Takes you down to the Littlewoods . |
| 6 | ‘ A three piece really boils it down to the core , ’ muses Bob . |
| 7 | On shore , she rubs her down with the exotically striped blanket , waits until she stirs again , and helps her back into the clothes . |
| 8 | Imagine that you have just come home from your hard day being an Environmental Health Officer , and your neighbour , who happens to be a builder or bookmaker or something , invites you down to the pub , and over a pint he says , ‘ I heard something on the radio about some story . |
| 9 | He puts it down at the base of the new li ga — the stripped pine trunk that all the men brought back from the forest and erected early this morning — and pours some water over the lamb 's head and in a stripe down its back to the base of the tail . |
| 10 | Alan Wilcox puts it down to the fact that there has always been a hard core of people for whom it becomes their chief social interest . |
| 11 | You can give her what she wants as long as she puts it down on the as long it 's over fifty you can give her what you want . |
| 12 | big woman out there at the wi the weaving , one of the weavers , and if there 's one of the chaps who there getting married oh she straps them down to the weaving . |
| 13 | Country life suits you down to the ground . |
| 14 | She was dressed in one of the outfits , and I thought well that suits you down to the ground ! |
| 15 | It fills you up okay but runs you down at the same time . |
| 16 | What usually happens is one bloke ‘ digs ’ ( see box ) the ball up , the other guy ‘ volleys it ’ high in the air , then the first guy jumps up and smashes it down over the net . |
| 17 | Laboriously , she drags it down into the tunnel and there , in the dark , she lays a single egg on the inert body . |
| 18 | We do n't like failing ; it hurts our pride ; it brings us down to the dust . |