Example sentences of "[vb -s] it down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A three piece really boils it down to the core , ’ muses Bob . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Laboriously , she drags it down into the tunnel and there , in the dark , she lays a single egg on the inert body . |