Example sentences of "had [to-vb] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what was the sort of clothes you had to wear down the pit ? |
| 2 | They had to go down the rope side-ladder , Richard first . |
| 3 | he and he were like this in the water I had to go down the bank I grabbed hold of him in the middle of his back , just turfed him out . |
| 4 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 5 | From there we had to shuffle down the underground to Davenports Magic Shop , where Paul had been lured in order to buy an ancient Chinese trick , hence the coolie gear . |
| 6 | Suddenly they met burnt chip contamination and had to shut down the production line , a major anxiety as they were producing to a tight schedule in a ‘ Just in time ’ situation . |
| 7 | Just the sight of the stamp had been enough to set her heart beating uneasily and she had to fight down the urge to put off reading the words someone had written to her . |
| 8 | l here were about a dozen customers , mostly middle-aged men sitting alone reading Evening Standards who only troubled the barman to the extent that occasionally he had to turn down the corner of a page of his Stephen King paperback . |
| 9 | I had to force down the wave of nausea . |
| 10 | I had to hold down the wheelbarrow by sitting on it while taking off my hat , changing into my jeans , and putting on goggles and a smog-mask . |
| 11 | ‘ When the Wolfkings rule , ’ he said , and Fenella remembered Nuadu Airgetlam all over again and had to bite down the ache of loss . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ We had to break down the door to reach the lady in the house — she was terrified . |
| 13 | When Johann did not come , we had to break down the castle door . |
| 14 | Well , there was nothing for it , I had to lay down the law in no uncertain terms . |
| 15 | Fenella was easily bribed with the promise of an ice-cream on the way home and Lisabeth kept her company by devouring a couple of choc ices , which meant I had to wash down the upholstery of Armstrong 's back seat that evening . |