Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [pers pn] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had risen and now stood staring at him , trembling visibly and feeling as if a puff of wind would knock her down again . |
| 2 | Another owner discovered that if he put a line of coins on his sideboard his cat would knock them down one by one . |
| 3 | Most of the away fans would make it down in time for the game and little else . |
| 4 | He would punish it : he would strangle and wither it : he would beat it down … |
| 5 | Thousands of students , particularly from Beijing , were sent to undertake ‘ social practice ’ during the summer vacation in the hope that contact With ‘ real life ’ would bring them down to earth and give them a more realistic assessment of society . |
| 6 | up until just six years ago crews unhappy about the weight of their cox would bring them down into the brewery for a spot of heavy labour — shovelling mash , to get their weight down . |
| 7 | In the case of a patient with a very high level , say 9 , that would bring it down to 7 but then the level will probably remain static . |
| 8 | The terrified Frankie skidded round the corner wall of the end house and raced as fast as his legs would carry him down towards the walkway gate . |
| 9 | He dared not move , for fear of starting a slide of loose stones that would carry him down and irresistibly over the edge of the quarry . |
| 10 | If it was in a medicine bottle they would pour it down the sink ! |
| 11 | One of his little projects was that I would send him down some very promising people from the Royal College to teach in the West Riding . |
| 12 | One of the ways she visualized life was as a swirling , unpredictable tide of confusion which swept you along helpless , bumping against rocks , trying to snatch at branches , bits of wreckage , anything that might help to keep you afloat for , if you did n't watch out , the waters would suck you down and close over your head . |
| 13 | He would scythe her down if she did n't fit in with his plans . |
| 14 | Cleared with the security guards at the desk he went into the lift that would take him down to a depth below the level of the Thames . |
| 15 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 16 | However , they paid little or no attention to her , and Lucy guessed that their minds were too occupied with the exciting venture which would take them down the foaming white waters of the river . |
| 17 | When the time came , he would cut him down to size . |
| 18 | Yeah well on what people have said I I think that er there 's a possibility that er if Stuart and myself get together with the officers concerned that we if these trees are pruned and trimmed as they they 're saying they 're over overgrown at the moment surely that would cut them down in size and if they 're regular pruned every so many years they wo n't they wo n't be a nuisance I do n't think in future years . |
| 19 | Yeah that would cut it down would n't it ? on their own you can say they 'd be able to afford it but if you consider the outgoings as well eighty pound a |
| 20 | Erm yeah I certainly would encourage you down that path Miss Whittaker that if it helps , I do n't know whether you 've got all the documents , but in our our submissions to the county we suggested that if E two has to survive erm and to add the words , sorry , exactly as you started the sentence but finishing that the exceptions were areas of the sites allocated for development in local plans , it would seem to me to make it absolutely clear what the freedom of local interpretation was in the statutory plan process whilst giving the county the the that it wanted on all the other areas of the county . |
| 21 | Adèle was hoping Mr Rochester would call her down to meet the guests , but in the end she was so tired with all the excitement that she and I both went to bed early . |
| 22 | ah , I 've put you a three eight , wide eight thick piece of steel lay it on the top that would hold it down in the middle |
| 23 | Half-blinded , his lashes and brows coated with a rim of snow , George was disorientated and unable to find a path which would lead him down to the shelter of the valley . |
| 24 | Within the hour they were out into the countryside , following the track which would lead them down to the old Roman road . |
| 25 | She thought the spiral staircase would lead her down to the party . |
| 26 | A drowning man escaping from the wreck of his marriage would drag me down . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Tried Danny , hoping a game would calm me down , but no reply . |
| 29 | Just before midnight she got up and swallowed two aspirins with some water which she hoped would calm her down . |
| 30 | She could not believe that her daughter would let her down by swearing in public . |