Example sentences of "down [coord] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to pull it down or leave it down all the time because you always have to leave the light on there anyway |
| 2 | We just do n't seem to be able to track them down or attract them in quite the same way , so there is a massive practical problem if you want them to have a voice in how things are done , there 's no doubt about that . |
| 3 | That event & 's separation in the same year blighted by retirement … but is now divorced & we 've all brushed ourselves down & picked ourselves up again ! ) ) |
| 4 | She knelt down and rolled them up Bella 's legs and over her swollen knees . |
| 5 | Before driving in a drunken rage to her house , he is said to have told a friend : ‘ If she is there I am going to burn the house down and burn her down too . |
| 6 | Lynn 's pal Kathy Karges claimed she heard Griffin shout : ‘ I 'm going to burn her house down and burn her down too . ’ |
| 7 | I was roused from my room with a call from the Cambridge police , Stewart had been arrested for disorderly conduct and was demanding that his skipper should come down and bail him out . |
| 8 | He 's right next door to Reggie 's flats when you go down and pick him up |
| 9 | Now pick your fork up get down and pick it up . |
| 10 | Like the diligent ‘ style ’ journalist he is , Cohn notes them all down and offers them up for our delight . |
| 11 | Now all she wanted was for him to go , so she could sit down and think it over . |
| 12 | I did n't do a self-evaluation — an evaluation of myself — for the simple reason that we really did n't have time to sit down and think it out , and its a bit difficult doing it objectively … because you have no standard to compare . |
| 13 | Everybody had to work , and them show people could take a er big machine down and put them up . |
| 14 | Vivienne would pick them up and say , it 's alright I 'll just wash them down and put them back on the rack . |
| 15 | I should have just put my foot down and knocked him over . |
| 16 | Penetrating , complex and totally different in structure , it pulls the single line of melody up and down and spins it out to leave you dangling in some sort of musical nirvana . |
| 17 | The end of the halyard goes through the end goes through the end fitting and then we tie a little stopper knot in the end , then we bring the other end of the halyard down and make it up tight on this crease at the bottom of the mast . |
| 18 | This news came within a week , as he had been picked up on Myitkyina airfield , unable to walk , and a lone plane came down and took him over to Dibrugarh , where he had to stay in hospital for over a week . |
| 19 | A The surest away of getting rid of them is to cut them down and dig them out . |
| 20 | He reached down and bundled her up into his arms , trying to drown the feeble cries of pain that she uttered , reassuring her that everything would be all right . |
| 21 | Any way that was it and you st and you f forked them all round and you after it was er up you was put up to do the tramping round and round and you Every forkful you took it and saw that it was laid down and tramped it round like this , round and round and round and then the next one , till it was up . |
| 22 | I remember she crouched down and lifted me on to the table . |
| 23 | They 'd bloody take notice down and push it down toilet ! |
| 24 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 25 | ‘ Sponge him down and turn him out , ’ Henry said . |
| 26 | The procedure of bringing the nail down and taking it back up is performed using a small platform , worked by an ancient system of ropes and pulleys and known as La Nivola , the ‘ little cloud ’ . |
| 27 | But even to come out of her flat and come up to us , if we went down and brought her up , she would come . |
| 28 | Like there was this girl , she worked in the paper shop down the road , and there was this black kid who kept pestering her all the time , so we had to go down and sort him out . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll go down and sort it out tomorrow , ’ the girl said with an attempt at eagerness . |
| 30 | We did occasionally get the flies blowing them like , you know , but as long as you get it , got it in time and cut it down and cut it up straight away it was all right like . |