Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | So do you want to write it down ? |
| 2 | On a tree-stump beside one cave-mouth , a raccoon sits swatting them down with its paw , munching the little bodies and discarding the skinny wings onto a growing pile on the ground beside it . |
| 3 | Ben Turner , 18 , admitted knocking him down but said he tried to stop the others from piling in . |
| 4 | But faced with the sound of the word , and asked to write it down , the possibilities multiply so that instead of half a dozen there are now somewhere round one hundred and fifty variants possible . |
| 5 | Go through your drawers and anything you do n't need bring them down and throw them in the bin . |
| 6 | At first I tried to write everything down in my notebook . |
| 7 | Children must be given the opportunity to talk through their ideas before they are expected to write them down . |
| 8 | the er Sue wants to write it down what you 've said are you moving that we |
| 9 | and he has to write it down , so you have to get it |
| 10 | You'n knock us down ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's been disappointing that sometimes his emotional tension has dropped him down the placings . |
| 12 | Platt has let me down |
| 13 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 14 | The commonest and most visible indices of field officer performance are negative , as an agency head explained : ‘ An area supervisor will sit there and say , ‘ So and so has let me down again . |
| 15 | Murray added : ‘ The player feels he has let me down and his wife was in tears when she rang . |
| 16 | I can imagine the man in the evenings , slumped in his armchair , a glass in his hand , brooding on how life has let him down . |
| 17 | He has let himself down badly . |
| 18 | The Christian life should be one of joy and peace , they feel , so either they have failed God or he has let them down — though they feel guilty for thinking so . |
| 19 | During that time it has let us down just once , stranding the deputy editor Michael Harvey in Hammersmith with a broken clutch cable . |
| 20 | The Government has let us down by not realising we needed investment . |
| 21 | The public has been marvellous it is big business and local Government that has let us down . ’ |
| 22 | Fletcher said : ‘ Our batting department has let us down in both Tests , although everyone has been working hard on their game and how to combat their spinners on turning pitches . |
| 23 | How many times have you bought something that has let you down ( and not complained ) or worn a garment for just one season simply because it was the latest gimmick ? |
| 24 | To commit yourself when everyone has let you down . |
| 25 | It is probably all to the good that I did n't have this book with me , since the ready availability of a thick volume containing every registration number ever carried by every aeroplane currently registered or based in the United Kingdom could only have prompted further unanswerable questions as to why anyone could therefore need to write them down . |
| 26 | Mind you , there 's one dream I have regularly , I do n't need to write it down because I have it so often . ’ |
| 27 | Well you 'll need to write it down tomorrow . |
| 28 | Jinny tried to track it down , but it eluded her . |
| 29 | But now her husband has tracked her down and obtained a High Court order for the return of his children to America . |
| 30 | Through hell and high water , Anya the Apostate has tracked us down . |