Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [pron] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were aboard a vessel that was either going to go up or drag you down when it sank , what would your natural reaction be ? ’ |
| 2 | Be prepared for a breakdown in communication and for certain individuals to misbehave or let you down around the 12th and the 26th . |
| 3 | Rather than take it down , perhaps future generations of Kievans will blur the fact of what it stood for , with some typically romantic yarn — that it is a monument to rainbows , for example , or the antennae of a UFO-detecting device . |
| 4 | My favourite drum sounds have always been The Glitter Band 's so I thought it was silly not to try and track them down . |
| 5 | Laidlaw knew he could be overreacting from lack of sleep — it could have been a plan to try and break him down : a voice , no face . |
| 6 | Because you 'd you could n't hold that much in your head so you have to try and break them down into little patterns of Oh it 's one of that lot or it 's one of this lot . |
| 7 | It is in fact all oil , but for trying to understand the thing it 's better to try and break it down if we can , and that 's what 's being done here . |
| 8 | He 's going to resist and negotiate them down to whatever it is they really want . |
| 9 | ‘ They 're using me to try and bring him down ? ’ |
| 10 | Coventry ( again ) were playing West Brom , West Brom were below us and had to beat coventry to stay up and send us down . |
| 11 | He slid between two planes , Church and Killion and saw them circle and follow him down . |
| 12 | but tt , it would probably cost more to go and take it down then it would be to , to get a new gate |
| 13 | I 'd better go and calm him down . ’ |
| 14 | But do n't try and drag me down with you . |
| 15 | I said do n't try and drag us down with your slipshod ways . |
| 16 | ‘ Do so and dear Uncle will simply laugh and put it down to my youthful impetuosity . |
| 17 | Now , before you right them down just tell me what they are and then we can go back and write them down . |
| 18 | ‘ The appetite is certainly there and I 'm keen enough , but I do n't way to come back and let myself down . |
| 19 | So we had to get some ways to try and get something down . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So , hoisting her bag over her shoulder with an element of pride that for a brief moment made her lose sight of how important it was to try and pin him down for an interview , she made for the door . |
| 22 | Enforcement of prohibition was an impossible task as " speak easies " ( illegal drinking places ) mushroomed and an absurdly small force of ill-paid Federal agents tried to discover and close them down . |
| 23 | takes over , Blackburn push it wide , at last has found some space but comes across to try and close him down , support just behind from , it 's a woeful cross from and it 's easily cleared by Shrewsbury Town right up to the centre circle , where it 's taken on the chest of Nicky . |
| 24 | The arrival of the Oxford students , though , was to bring about an untimely end to Stamford 's medieval university , for in 1334 Oxford persuaded King Edward III to intervene and close it down : |