Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had resolved that I would try an alliance with him , persuading him not to create a female creature and helping him to hunt down and exterminate the creature already at large in the world . |
| 2 | She had sat on the seat cover , resting her head on the porcelain of the washbasin , licking dry lips and bringing her breathing down . |
| 3 | After bathing and dressing we wander down to the surprisingly well attended dining room for Christmas lunch . |
| 4 | ‘ Alan 's tackle on Emyr Lewis at the start of the game , lifting him off his feet and sending him crashing down , was just what we needed to lift us ’ said Ruddock . |
| 5 | Though her hair was not quite dry Franca began to plait it very fast , letting a long thick plait materialise between her nimble hands , then tossing it over her shoulder and letting it hang down over the back of the chair . |
| 6 | perhaps we have to look at the societal thing in that there 's something very macho seen as macho about football in Scotland which is stand on the terraces with a short sleeve shirt in zero degrees and having someone urinate down your leg and |
| 7 | Half-way through the interview I reminded him of his claim , pulled out a sheet of paper on which I had written three true statements and three false ones , and putting it face down on the table , invited him to use the pendulum to indicate the correct answers . |
| 8 | I 've had to go back up in to him , yeah , but I do n't know what happened last night , I do n't know whether he was not quite tired enough , erm , he must of got up as soon as I put him down and started sort of moaning then I went into the girls and I sorted them out he started screaming he did , so I had to go to him in and lay him down and making him lay down |
| 9 | Try putting a little badge on the front of a top and placing it face down . |
| 10 | The hunt was called off : the whippers-in and the huntsmen despatched , Benjamin ordering them back to the manor and telling them to bring down two stretchers , wine and bandages . |
| 11 | A nurse was scolding him and telling him to sit down and be quiet . |