Example sentences of "you [verb] [vb pp] down [art] " in BNC.

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1 Erm , I think possibly again , if you 'd got down a bit lower this sort of little rise in the ground there , that er that 's a , it 's erm what do you call it ?
2 ‘ I do n't suppose you 've written down the guests you want to ask ? ’ she remarked .
3 I entered it because I thought it would increase my confidence ; once you 've walked down a catwalk in a swimsuit , you can face most things .
4 Erm one wonders whether that 's erm wise in the long term because once you 've closed down a coal mine of course you ca n't er re-open it very easily because the roof falls in and it floods and effectively you have to start again from er from scratch .
5 If you 've taken down a door leading from hall to living room , or kitchen to dining room , you may be lucky and be left with interesting architrave mouldings around doorways , but if they 're plain modern ones , you 'll probably rip them out with the door .
6 He sat down in the living room into which she ushered him and observed , ‘ You 've taken down the decorations . ’
7 Well it 's , look he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark , ten seconds later he passed the two hundred and fifty metre mark , how far did he run in ten seconds and you 've put down a hundred metres
8 ‘ We 've come to ask you savage bloody chaps why the hell you have cut down a pleasant grove of willows . ’
9 But however different these patterns may be , key ideas will be repeated in each , and by the time you have written down the key words referring to your topic from half a dozen texts , you will be halfway to having the skeleton articulated .
10 Press it flat with the seam you have sewn down the back of the head of the puppet .
11 When you have noted down every single thing which you wish to discuss use the information to prepare a well-ordered list of questions to take in with you .
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