Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Or is this yet another example of the Government and their supporters talking up human rights in theory and knocking them down in practice ? |
| 32 | He lifted her fingers to the head of his parrot and stroked them down along its back . |
| 33 | Make the patchwork on the shells by spreading the glue over a small area , laying on scraps of cloth and pressing them down with the damp cloth . |
| 34 | All that remains is to wrap the covering material round and glue it down to the boards . |
| 35 | Taczek hoisted his fist and smacked it down on the table with a hollow bang . |
| 36 | Two arms caught her and drew her down into warmth and security as she continued to cry into the comfort of her husband 's chest . |
| 37 | Griffith now heated his rods in the middle and drew them down to thinner and thinner fibres which after cooling he also broke in tension . |
| 38 | He apologized and helped her down at the end of the road . |
| 39 | ‘ He got what he wanted and slammed it down on the counter . |
| 40 | Cranston stuck his red , bulbous nose into a tankard , took one slurp and slammed it down on the table . |
| 41 | Sir John drained his tankard and slammed it down on the table . |
| 42 | Surprisingly , Cranston agreed , drained the cup and slammed it down on the table . |
| 43 | Vologsky finished the bottle off and slammed it down upon the table . |
| 44 | Because you 'd you could n't hold that much in your head so you have to try and break them down into little patterns of Oh it 's one of that lot or it 's one of this lot . |
| 45 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 46 | And cut them down by twenty a day . |
| 47 | The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength , and more strength he had just summoned , into the fish 's side just behind the great chest fill that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man 's chest . |
| 48 | Top the whole thing off with a dessert of chocolate mousse in strawberry sauce and wash it down with a Bordeaux red . |
| 49 | ‘ You — you — ’ Her hand shot up and Nicolo caught hold of it and twisted it down into her lap . |
| 50 | He 's going to resist and negotiate them down to whatever it is they really want . |
| 51 | And at the same time the racing of her blood was only partly fear , and she could see that he knew it , that he had discovered this power and tuned it to performance pitch , that the insults were a kind of invitation , the display of force a plea turned upside down , and she also wanted , because she longed to please , to take off her clothes then and there and let him down from his prideful pose , and soothe him with her obedience to his rage . |
| 52 | Or walk out and let you down at the last minute . ’ |
| 53 | So how does pancreatic lipase , an enzyme that knocks around in the essentially aqueous environment of the small intestine , get to grips with fats and oils and break them down into the glycerol and fatty acids that are readily absorbed by the lining of the gut ? |
| 54 | In other words , if you pay approximately £50 a quarter for your telephone rental then round it up to £60 ( it helps if you overestimate expenditure ) and break it down to the monthly sum of £20 . |
| 55 | Therapist : ‘ You say you feel awful at times ; let's look at that and try and break it down into the physical sensations you feel , the thoughts you have , and how it effects your behaviour . |
| 56 | You start by entering a basic ‘ global ’ idea and break it down into smaller and smaller steps . |
| 57 | You start by entering a basic ‘ global ’ idea and break it down into smaller and smaller steps . |
| 58 | ‘ Be thankful I 'm not a Gunner : I 'd 've brought my theodolite along and surveyed us down to the inch every five minutes . ’ |
| 59 | I took out the 8000 and put them down on the table . |
| 60 | Thirdly , and most important of all in the genesis of Doctor Who , are the people who inspired it — the few who drew the notion of Doctor Who from the seeds of human inventiveness and put them down on paper . |