Example sentences of "she [verb] it down " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made it down into the long drawing-room with a sort of grim look on her face that Alain noted with a frown . |
| 2 | Nausea welled up in her ; she fought it down , forcing herself to concentrate on the road , to hang on until she saw the street sign Chemin de la Tourelle . |
| 3 | She could feel the anger surging inside her and she fought it down , not wanting him to know what a fool she felt for not having been made aware of that fact . |
| 4 | She got it down before the motors blew , and without tipping over . |
| 5 | Well not if she writes it down do n't worry about it . |
| 6 | perhaps she thought , that 's it , I bet she writes it down chatting in the exam . |
| 7 | She beat it down , while she thought , These two , we 'll see nothing of them , they 'll be off |
| 8 | Now she let it down and tied it at the nape of her neck with a scarf . |
| 9 | After a few seconds she drew it down again and strained her ears . |
| 10 | She gulped it down , paid the exiguous dispensing fee , and left the premises . |
| 11 | She lifted it down and read the brief note inside . |
| 12 | And she slammed it down on the desk . |
| 13 | Irritably , she slammed it down and went to wash and change , while she considered how she could trace this mysterious boy , this disgusting boy , this juvenile delinquent . |
| 14 | She slammed it down as hard as she could on her opponent 's head . |
| 15 | She threw it down in disgust and took a drum which Corrie showed no inclination to use , thumping it furiously to express her feelings . |
| 16 | John Major is understood to have offered her a junior minister 's job at the Home Office , but she turned it down on the grounds that it was not sufficiently senior . |
| 17 | She was offered a job in the government and she turned it down ! |
| 18 | Not her ; she worked her spoon like an Irish navvy , the way she wolfed it down . |
| 19 | She could hear the animal below her , struggling on the icy path , and she followed it down . |
| 20 | She held the feeling in tight , she squashed it down under the heavy pasteboard covers of the recipe book . |
| 21 | Her fingers found it and she pressed it down . |
| 22 | Rather than taking the piece as a whole she broke it down into smaller parts and then worked on them with separate hands and at varied rhythms . |
| 23 | She placed it down again and sank a little into herself . |
| 24 | But a remnant of caution urged that she tone it down , after all , Lucy … |
| 25 | Finally she turned the book over and read the brief notes about the author ; and her deep unease of earlier that morning returned , but she crushed it down . |
| 26 | She pulls it down anyway more than that |
| 27 | The letter was addressed to Mrs Violet Theresa McKeown and she took it down , holding it between finger and thumb . |
| 28 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 29 | 3 She slams it down hard in a stamping kick onto the attacker 's instep . |
| 30 | When she brought it down the hospital she said here you are nan er mum she said , nan she said it 's a present for you she said , so we did laugh . |