Example sentences of "drag [pers pn] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If I look up to the blue sky , as yet I must when it is blue and bright suddenly , it is in spite of the heavy limb and relaxing back that will drag me down or cause me to hasten home . |
| 3 | They were heavy : I 'd have to wedge them in the middle so they did n't drag me down sideways . |
| 4 | But do n't try and drag me down with you . |
| 5 | A drowning man escaping from the wreck of his marriage would drag me down . |
| 6 | If you were aboard a vessel that was either going to go up or drag you down when it sank , what would your natural reaction be ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ She 'll drag you down into the gutter with her , Dane — but if that 's all you want from life , then damn you . ’ |
| 8 | You can drag it down to produce 14 rows and hand edit the last two to read Average and Total . |
| 9 | The Spectator gets its readers off the hook by a return to Malthus , who made a virtue of not helping the poor , as then , he informed us , they would drag us down by overbreeding . |
| 10 | I said do n't try and drag us down with your slipshod ways . |