Example sentences of "them down [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter . |
| 2 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 3 | It needed people to work all night sending out subscription copies , getting them down to the all-night post office . |
| 4 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 5 | Pale roads snaked from them down to the newer tourist settlements by the sea . |
| 6 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 7 | When they boarded the glittering red , gold and green floating restaurant , the maître d ’ took them down to the fresh fish display in the base . |
| 8 | Within the hour they were out into the countryside , following the track which would lead them down to the old Roman road . |
| 9 | And he had taken them down into the Southern Ocean , not as far as we were going , but far enough to be in amongst the ice , circumnavigating the whole land mass of Antarctica in waters no man had ever sailed before . |
| 10 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
| 11 | He reached towards her with his strong hands and pressed them down on the fine-boned structure of her shoulders , massaging with rhythmic , kneading movements . |
| 12 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 13 | Make the patchwork on the shells by spreading the glue over a small area , laying on scraps of cloth and pressing them down with the damp cloth . |
| 14 | Incineration is the most appropriate disposal method for many wastes which can be rendered harmless only by breaking them down through the controlled use of heat . |
| 15 | The steward took them down beyond the Great Hall into a vast , stone-flagged kitchen . |
| 16 | Their path took them down beyond the Technical College and the School of Art building , where Buddie and two of his sisters posed as living models for the students . |
| 17 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 18 | Coming from eighty throats , it swept with them down from the wooded foothills and made them sound like a flock of scavenging birds disturbed from their carcass . |