Example sentences of "she would [verb] [pers pn] down " in BNC.

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1 She 'd pull you down into it . ’
2 I 'll have to go down there on a Saturday , my mum said she 'd take me down there .
3 I said no , she 'd turn him down .
4 Wished he had n't been so damn scared that she 'd turn him down .
5 So instead of admitting what she 'd overheard , and letting him see just how much he 'd hurt her , she 'd play it down .
6 Her mother had high hopes for her to take O-levels and go higher , so when she was pregnant , Elaine could not tell her because she felt she 'd let her down .
7 She was a kind woman and whenever I called with a message she would sit me down and fetch me a biscuit or a glass of milk .
8 There were some steps she did remember having seen before , perhaps she would find them down there .
9 She started to teach him rhymes and poems and then she would write them down on scraps of paper so that he could follow the letters through when he was on his own .
10 If he did n't answer after three rings , she would put it down .
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