Example sentences of "it down [prep] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | I stood in the middle of the road , conscious of my affrontery , flagging it down with a bundle of banknotes . |
| 3 | He gulped the syllable , taking it down with a swallow of air . |
| 4 | Darius grabs a wedge , ices it with half an inch of butter , crams it in his mouth and washes it down with a can of Coke . |
| 5 | Jackson made his final attempt with the tea , then set it down with a grimace of distaste . |
| 6 | Write it down on a bit of paper , that 's a good chap ! ’ |
| 7 | and Ken we used to write it down on a bit of paper who had what and who owed what and |
| 8 | Tell you what I 'll write it down on a bit of paper what page it 's on |
| 9 | I like to think there are n't many tricks I miss , but I have to credit Sorrel in that she did write it down on a scrap of newspaper without saying ‘ in case of what ? ’ |
| 10 | Got it down on a piece of paper . |
| 11 | Draw it up , and here we just took suggestions from everybody , but what you can do , if you 're on your own , write it down on a piece of paper , and ev , when every time something occurs to you , you put it down . |
| 12 | The inclusion of sculptural elements into a given context makes one more conscious of time , not by slowing it down to a state of meditation , but rather by particularising time through the experience of the work in context . |
| 13 | ‘ I think I narrowed it down after a lot of sifting through . |
| 14 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 15 | They put it down in a strip of shade and stood to attention on either side with their rifles . |