Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [pron] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lift them from the elbows , and them drop them down to the floor . |
| 2 | No I went back and got in the car and was fiddling about and I wrote it down on a matchbox you see . |
| 3 | I gave it a coat yesterday morning and then it hardened up and I rubbed it down with a bit of fine wire wool today |
| 4 | And I brought it down to half a dozen staff . |
| 5 | That surprised me and I put it down to Christmas and a slight slackening of my efforts . |
| 6 | And I put it down to having a fairly bad circulation and I 'm get getting my circulation back , using a product called and going on this er hair programme and my hair is beginning |
| 7 | I howl , and I throw myself down on the floor . |
| 8 | I got two bottles of Scotch and I hid one down by the dishwasher . ’ |
| 9 | Siobhan Redmond I 'd seen once in a revue by Marcella for St Andrews University and I tracked her down in Glasgow and asked her would she like to do a show for buttons for the newly opened Tron Theatre , who were interested . |
| 10 | Ruth saw thrown spears hang in the air as if floating in water , and she thrust herself down into the grass , her face in her hands so as not to see any more . |
| 11 | And she slammed it down on the desk . |
| 12 | And she sent me down to the Headmistress and she says , ‘ You 've been drinking , have n't you ? |
| 13 | It was a charming letter , a well-managed mixture of humility and boastfulness , and she sent it down to be typed with a feeling of smugness . |
| 14 | It was a glimmering he had , but no more than that , and she cast him down from the height of her knowledge . |
| 15 | What was more , there had been a growing number of mice in her house of late and she put it down to the age of the animal . |
| 16 | Vaguely , she became aware that this man was having an effect on her , and she put it down to the fact that she was unaccustomed to associating with such a devastating member of the opposite sex . |
| 17 | He wrote it in two weeks , and we took it down to Richmond Palace and played it before the Queen on February the 20th . |
| 18 | And they got it down to , not the bricks but the sand that the bricks was made of because |
| 19 | The details were all there ; they 'd used a knife , and they brought it down on his face four times . |
| 20 | And they take the cartridge out and they send it down to Cardiff which is where Mel is |
| 21 | Look , if , if somebody charges you three hundred pound , and you say that 's too much and you complain and they knock it down to two fifty , but they say but we want you to pay fifty pounds on something else , extra , do you think the two fifty 's fair , eh ? |
| 22 | and they fetched me down at the hospital |
| 23 | You see and they called it the , the church of Saint Constantine , and it shifted from here and they built one down at the and then they shifted from the to the present site in about seventeen forty . |
| 24 | And he flung himself down on his bed , his hands over his ears . |
| 25 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 26 | Well , ten minutes later it was still up to me knees , I said , I ca n't keep this up and he shouted something down to somebody else , who shouted to somebody else , Put your sprags back lads . |
| 27 | Anyway he looked like that he had a red car and he was sitting in the car and he put them down like that and they were like that in the car and after I thought I should 've popped at her house see if she 's wearing that in the house I thought you git . |
| 28 | A tallish hummock loomed , and he pulled her down into the wet grass behind it . |
| 29 | As his mouth descended hungrily upon hers and he swept her down among the bracken , Tamar succumbed to a passion far greater than she had ever known before . |
| 30 | I offered Benn the chance to fight me in September and he turned me down in favour of fighting Mauro Galvano in Italy . |