Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want you to drive me down to the railway station in about half an hour . ’ |
| 2 | I and er told Lindsey if she 'd ever any problems never to write them down to a friend |
| 3 | THE Tranmere Rovers players were so high on good publicity before this match that their manager , John King , said he would have to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 4 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 5 | If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter . |
| 6 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 7 | and Ken we used to write it down on a bit of paper who had what and who owed what and |
| 8 | They reckoned They was going to pull it down after the War . |
| 9 | The foot is reduced to a protrusion that they use to pull themselves down into the sand . |
| 10 | When she had finished , he motioned Tam forward first because he was the oldest , and the twelve-year-old boy rushed eagerly across the room to fling himself down on the altar mat . " |
| 11 | Well we 've fortunately been able to track them down to the waxes which er occur on land so what we 're seeing here is a , an input from the land carried on the dusts which are blown in the winds from the Sahara and other regions out into the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 12 | He 'd managed to track her down on the Friday evening , waiting for several minutes as she was summoned to the communal phone in the hall where she was now a deputy warden . |
| 13 | It was heavy for him , he was glad to set it down for a while . |
| 14 | It also boasts an hydraulic system which enables a 20-foot pod to be extended to increase the display area and allows the whole vehicle to lower itself down to a floor height of just 18 inches above the ground . |
| 15 | When he had dumped their two canvas bags on the ground , he reached up again to help her down from the high train . |
| 16 | Oh you want to fetch it down to a board technic |
| 17 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |
| 18 | " They claimed that they ought to be [ treated as ] free coloni by birth , and that Deodadus the monk [ responsible for running the Mitry estate ] wanted unjustly to bend them down into an inferior service by force , and to afflict them . " |
| 19 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 20 | It would be too easy to put everything down to a typical case of hysteria , but what if there was something else , some underlying cause ? |
| 21 | He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house . |
| 22 | It 's almost impossible to put him down in the tackle , and there are few players about who you an say that . |
| 23 | Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office . |
| 24 | Granville Again was out of form with a few niggling problems , so after talking to Michael I decided to let him down for a break then bring him back to his peak for one day — this day . ’ |
| 25 | She rocked the baby in her arms , refusing to put her down for a minute , and she sang snatches of lullabies she remembered her mother singing so many years ago . |
| 26 | The oriental had released them from their cells a short time before , and ordered them to precede him down through an open trapdoor into a secret escape tunnel . |
| 27 | you see his expenditure was er , he , he , he , just to put it down to a very minor thing , you 're spending four pound a week |
| 28 | He had n't known whether to put it down to the fact that she imagined he was being left outside the camaraderie of the brothers or that in some strange way she was laying claim on him . |
| 29 | There is nothing whatever to do about it , except , possibly , to put it down for a time . |
| 30 | Her mother handed her a glass of white wine , so generously filled that Kate was obliged to take a long sip before it was safe to put it down on the small table by the side of the chair . |