Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.

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1 Would you mind if I looked down the list ?
2 Do you mind if I turn down the gas fire ? ’
3 If you ask somebody what 's the explanation for a fact you may have noticed if you walked down the Strand here just from the School , if you 're observant , I 'm sure you 've , you 've all instantly noticed as you walked by , that Strand Street , which is a short street that , sorry , I 'm , Savoy Street , which is a short street that leads off the Strand into the Savoy Hotel , is an exception to the rule , that in England you drive on the left , because in Stra in Savoy Street , you drive on the right .
4 I think , she said if you dig down a way it 's dry
5 If you put down a deposit and the firm goes bankrupt , you 'll become one of the many unsecured creditors who wait for their share-out from the receiver .
6 It always seems to me that you 've got a set of results , and if you come to write them up , and you know they 're obviously wrong , you 're going to get a lot more marks if you put down the right values — or what should be the right values — so you end up fiddling things eventually .
7 If you , if you put down the letter for people like this , sort of , I would of done one of two things , I 'd would get really nark about that and the way they give you what you want
8 If you put down the example I I actually marked the example but then I realized going back through the book that obviously the example was given for you there anyway .
9 " They will never learn to get out of the way if you slow down every time , " he said sharply .
10 If you turn down the job you may feel even more upset — if you eventually have to resign , at least you 'll have tested out your resources .
11 ‘ You 'll be able to push better if you go down a gear .
12 But it , it just goes to show you that , you know if you , if if you go down the structured way , it does work .
13 The thing about thing about if you go down the south of the islands they 're so nice , it 's very hard .
14 she 's just giving , she 's just give me an adult education centre there at Spinny Hill , Northampton and she said they put everything in perspective for you so that you know where you 've got to start , what is available to you and then she said if you go down the job centre and ask them if E T , education , employment training
15 And then if if you lay down the joker cards you have to kiss everybody .
16 If you where your hand is now if you look down the bottom , no no on the on the other side there , there are two strips .
17 at it for responsibility and financial reasons and if you log down every bit that you spent doing admin assistant and E O then you 'd say stuff this for a game of soldiers but you do n't
18 The finer the gauge of machine , the more needles it has , so if you move down a gauge with your fine yarn , you will get a better fabric and have more needles with which to knit the larger sizes .
19 ‘ I ca n't wait to see shear waters again , ’ I said brightly to the Warden when he came to check that we understood about Calor gas , to remind us to boil the drinking water and to tell us the exact procedure of what to do if we fell down a cliff .
20 And if we cut down the number of our operations — for the part he 's making it would n't be worth automating .
21 In the echo of the receding explosions and the sulphurous cordite of the rockfall , I said to Steve we might live longer if we abseiled down the rocky left side of the icefield , well away from the fall line .
22 I remember that within 10 minutes of our first conversation , Christopher asked me how I would feel if we closed down the Birmingham head office — his view was that the way to change the company 's culture was to close the headquarters and start again somewhere else .
23 But they 're worried that if they turn down the property they may not get another .
24 The expert clause in the parties ' contract will be the only document likely to have a decisive effect , and then only if it lays down the procedure in detail , which many do not do .
25 If it goes down a thirty hole , it 'll be sixty wo n't it cos it 's double score .
26 There have been an enormous series of changes over the last ten or fifteen years , and maybe some school teachers would be glad if it slowed down a little bit to make their life a little easier , I do n't know .
27 If he knocks down the wicket with his own leg , he is out .
28 So it might be possible for a 50-year-old with a heart condition to be acting reasonably if he turned down a job involving more stress and daily travel , whereas a 30-year-old executive with no personal problems who rejected the same offer might forfeit his claim to statutory redundancy pay .
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