Example sentences of "you [verb] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ If you want to slow down the game , ’ said another Ottawa official , ‘ one good tactic is to keep changing the players ’ . |
| 2 | There will be occasions when you want to drain down the cold water system . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Yes yes Are you going to slacken down the dancing a bit when she 's in secondary school ? |
| 5 | Do you remember going down a erm , a ha a ahem |
| 6 | Next you begin breaking down the aims into individual goals . |
| 7 | Would you mind pulling down the blinds ? |
| 8 | You needed to tone down the quotes at times to avert a libel writ . |
| 9 | You read in the papers all the time about girls being raped and murdered , and you do n't want it to happen to you , so you try to cut down the odds . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't suppose you 've written down the guests you want to ask ? ’ she remarked . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He sat down in the living room into which she ushered him and observed , ‘ You 've taken down the decorations . ’ |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | And what was the sort of clothes you had to wear down the pit ? |
| 17 | Gone are the days when you had to slide down a muddy bank and hold an old mercury one at arms length . |
| 18 | That 's right and put your paddle in that and you scull you had to come down every time and many a time people 'd learn that that paddle will come out , but once you got the knack of it you could do it one hand , cos you was cutting down all the time like that 's what it was . |
| 19 | On the one hand , you wanted to play down the sleaze factor , not let it be thought that you 'd been involved with hundreds of men , that you slept with just anyone . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've come to ask you savage bloody chaps why the hell you have cut down a pleasant grove of willows . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Press it flat with the seam you have sewn down the back of the head of the puppet . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You get a little book , and you have to take out the tape , and you have to write down the different conversations you have in between , all your conversations , and then erm , . |
| 25 | Oh dear , the thing is , as , as far as I can remember I ca n't find it in any of the two books that I 've got out at the moment , it 's not under , but I vaguely remember that you have to dig down a certain . |
| 26 | Before you can have a revolution you have to break down the existing system . ’ |
| 27 | Before you can have a revolution you have to break down the existing system . |
| 28 | You 're real nervous and you need to slow down a little . |
| 29 | Maybe you need to track down an old kitchen manufacturer , or perhaps you 've just signed a contract to get rid of a high-pressure salesman , and are worried because there does n't appear to be a get-out clause . |
| 30 | After completing a check list you need to write down a conclusion . |