Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the day , for bringing them down . |
| 2 | I was just worried that you 'd be furious with me for bringing them down here when you were out of the country . |
| 3 | HOW arrogant of David Mellor to blame the tabloids for bringing him down when it was his own folly . |
| 4 | Some radiometer readings became corrupted after writing them down and are wholly or partly lost . |
| 5 | You can keep your reason for hunting me down to yourself . ’ |
| 6 | Instead of slapping me down , as any surgeon could quite reasonably have done in those circumstances , and particularly a surgeon with his reputed bite , he said simply , ‘ Not having seen them , I ca n't truthfully answer you , but from what I 've heard the two in the black car should have a fair chance . |
| 7 | We toyed with the idea of bringing her down from the gallery and onto the set one evening . |
| 8 | Are you sort of winding them down ? |
| 9 | In all cases it is not a matter of tearing them down ( at least not at the time of the communication ) but of making then part of the communication . |
| 10 | He claimed if a developer had to meet the cost of knocking it down each flat would cost £50,000 to build . |
| 11 | As he approached his defeated enemy , he felt no sense of triumph , which surprised him after all the frustrating years of hunting him down . |
| 12 | Erm you 'll hav have plenty of opportunity of writing them down and erm you 'll be given a lot of extracts of music like you probably were in that book |
| 13 | Sheriff George Crozier accused the lawyer of shouting him down during a trial at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court . |
| 14 | And they have decided to issue part of their deficit-financing bonds to the market at attractive interest rates , instead of forcing them down the throats of reluctant workers ( though the lack of a secondary market may still make them unappetising ) . |
| 15 | I think the question of turning it down , that a lot of work is er , forgive my bluntness nonsense . |
| 16 | Yeah , this business of pulling it down there |
| 17 | But instead of calming him down , they had exactly the opposite effect . |
| 18 | And it definitely has the effect of calming them down . |
| 19 | Koalas , sloths and leaf-eating monkeys are already up there , with a never-ending supply of food at their disposal , but again with the problem of breaking it down and digesting it . |
| 20 | That it turned out to be neither was because of Father McGiff 's discovery that there was more to Time 's perfidy than just the simple ruse of slowing him down . |
| 21 | Eventually we all agreed we wanted this fierce bark that was both harsh and metallic , after which it was just a case of refining it down until we settled on the precise tone we ended up using . |
| 22 | I thought , at first , of Jean Hastie and of summoning her down to deal with this . |
| 23 | ‘ Football has a way of kicking you down like that . |
| 24 | It has already been noted that the swash often tends to push shingle up the beach , while the backwash is incapable of moving it down again . |
| 25 | Fincara , surely , would have some magic way of tracking them down . |
| 26 | Was this his way of cutting her down to size ? |
| 27 | Three coal mines in Yorkshire which employ fifteen hundred people between them are to have their futures reviewed with the intention of closing them down . |
| 28 | She is currently in the process of closing it down at considerable personal loss . |
| 29 | What he suggested was that I should then and there telephone my contact with the object of tying him down . |
| 30 | ‘ But it is not just a question of ripping them down . |