Example sentences of "pull down [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that it was only er a face up , it were n't to pull down and rebuild |
| 2 | Do n't ignore this legal obligation , otherwise you could be ordered to pull down or open up work for inspection at your expense . |
| 3 | In all the really agricultural villages and parts of the kingdom , there is a shocking decay ; a great dilapidation and constant pulling down or falling down of houses . |
| 4 | A riot in 1694 at Hatfield Chase in the Isle of Axholme is described by George Stovin , who was born the year after the events described : ‘ Whilst the corn was growing , several men , women and children of Belton and among others the said Popplewell 's wife encouraged by him — in a riotous manner pulled down and burnt and laid waste the thorns and destroyed the corn . ’ |
| 5 | Although you might not meet an elephant on the Wilpattu jungle tracks , you know that they are there when you find a tree pulled down or bull-dozed across the road . |
| 6 | Between Dec. 31 and Jan. 2 several thousand Azerbaijani rioters pulled down or set fire to fences and other installations along a 137-km stretch of the border between the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( an Azerbaijani exclave separated from Azerbaijan proper by a strip of Armenian territory ) and Iran . |
| 7 | Table tops can also be concealed within a storage wall in much the same way as fold-up beds , so that the leaf can be pulled down when wanted and shut up later to look like a piece of smooth wall . |
| 8 | The pivotal notion of Spandau prison being pulled down and replaced by a supermarket was one which greatly excited Brenton , signifying at a stroke both Western Europe 's descent into cynical consumerism and the wiping out of history . |
| 9 | The demolition of Daniel Rossiter 's slaughterhouse in 1783 , it seems , had just been an interim measure to ease congestion near the bridge ; now the Trustees were to have the power to ‘ … pull down and remove certain Houses and Buildings , now being in the Line of the said new proposed Road … ’ . |