Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want you to drive me down to the railway station in about half an hour . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | They reckoned They was going to pull it down after the War . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When he had dumped their two canvas bags on the ground , he reached up again to help her down from the high train . |
| 10 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |
| 11 | He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house . |
| 12 | It 's almost impossible to put him down in the tackle , and there are few players about who you an say that . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When Nigel learned of their whereabouts , he began to hunt them down with the aid of his yeomen . |
| 17 | He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away . |
| 18 | It catapults grains of sand at passing ants in an attempt to knock them down into the pit and eat them . |
| 19 | " Mum used to send me down to the job centre for jobs . |
| 20 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 21 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |
| 22 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 23 | If Nodform Wonder is in anything like the form he was at Wetherby on Friday , he will laugh off the six pound penalty that is intended to slow him down in the Levy Board Handicap Hurdle at Kelso . |
| 24 | Ellen screamed and was instantly seized by the other man , who , laughing at her wild struggles , began to force her down to the floor . |
| 25 | It wrings higher performance per clock than anybody and it has not broken compatibility the way Intel intends to do with the P6 ( UX No 420 ) and the way IBM has done with the Rios and its subset the PowerPC , having apparently failed to scale it down to the desktop and having been forced to strip out 40 instructions and substitute a software emulator . |
| 26 | We used to chop them down in the slaughterhouse on two pulleys , you see . |
| 27 | It is far tougher to dive at the legs of an oncoming player than to haul them down by the neck or straight-arm tackle them as they run past you . |
| 28 | I hope you 'll be up soon — we must arrange to get you down to the cottage , it would be a hoot . |
| 29 | He would have been happier if the Latin American had made at least a pretence at attempting to beat him down on the charter price . |
| 30 | Next , I had to get it down to the sea . |