Example sentences of "it down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slogans were in ill-formed , illiterate script and Owen at first put it down as the work of children ; not the children who went to the kuttub , who were infants , but older youths . |
| 2 | Returning to the bedroom she crept back to the bed , raised the knife and without a moment 's thought drove it down into the sleeper 's chest . |
| 3 | If the gull has the nerve to dive at them , an auntie may even grab it by the feet and pull it down into the water . |
| 4 | Finally , one of them placed his foot flat on the box , right over Caroline 's face , and forced it down into the grave . |
| 5 | He followed the dive-bomber round in a very tight turn and shot it down into the sea , but found that his own aircraft was by then burning fiercely . |
| 6 | Taylor/L , A G.C. O'Nion intercepted a Z.506B which made off on seeing the fighter and attempted to evade by making steep turns , but Taylor was quickly onto its tail and forced it down into the sea . |
| 7 | It was funny in my day , when I first started there you used to get , mix up some size and er in a pot , in a proper pot and take it down into the mess room and put it on the stove , coal stove , heat it up and you let it boil over there was a terrific smell about the place you can imagine , the size but that 's what we used to do in those days . |
| 8 | Laboriously , she drags it down into the tunnel and there , in the dark , she lays a single egg on the inert body . |
| 9 | There 's Black Gemmell Pearce bit long to Rozario good ball that , oh he almost chested it down into the path of Stone . |
| 10 | The horsefly larvae use their two large jaws to capture the tiny toad and pull it down into the mud where they feed on its body fluids . |
| 11 | See I could , I could just take it round the edge of your carpet , you know , just , if er , if you want me to , if you want me to I 'll , I can lift the edge of your carpet and put it down onto the floor |
| 12 | The lines particularly can be more convenient than transfers because you can simply follow the original artwork like following a map , unwinding from the reel and sticking it down onto the film as you go along — though it can be fiddly on dense or complicated boards . |
| 13 | Aim at getting it down onto the ground before it reaches the bank , hooding the clubface by setting the hands well forward , to reduce the effective loft of the club . |
| 14 | Rumour had it the owner of the Gazi burned it down for the insurance money . |
| 15 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 18 | I wadded one into my shoulder holster as an ace in the hole , packing it down with the gun . |
| 19 | She took hold of it and put it down on the floor . |
| 20 | Quietly , humbly , Cameron took off his headset and set it down on the floor . |
| 21 | They set it down on the floor in the middle of the room , as the T'ang had instructed them earlier , then backed away , heads lowered . |
| 22 | She put it down on the floor beside her guitar . |
| 23 | so , anyway , I just , we 've got it down on the floor and I says if we had a brown suite |
| 24 | Haul it back up , then chuck it down on the deck |
| 25 | Mr Gillis seemed to delight in slamming it down on the top of the tousled head below . |
| 26 | I wrote it down on the top of the table with my pencil . |
| 27 | the man said , lifting the card machine from behind the counter and slamming it down on the top . |
| 28 | Guido drained his champagne glass and laid it down on the wall beside him . |
| 29 | A wave caught the mast , lifting it high and then slamming it down on the cabin roof . |
| 30 | I told her this , and then wrote it down on the assessment sheet . |