Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [det] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they huffed and they puffed would they blow it all down ? |
| 2 | And they , er when they did it , they knocked it all down , and that was really wrong and unnecessary , and though I think some of the flintstone was used , a lot of the flintstone went back in the builder 's yard , and it was a criminal thing at the time . |
| 3 | you see then they pulled them all down and built the ice rink there . |
| 4 | They called us all down to see what a million pounds looked like . |
| 5 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 6 | they , they , they tore it all down which was the most wonderful thing . |
| 7 | No , but , could n't they write it all down ? |
| 8 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |