Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] them down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad marched over , pulled my hands out of my ears and forced them down to my sides . |
| 2 | ‘ The basic idea is that you jump towards them , scoop up their legs and take them down hard , ’ she explained . |
| 3 | We and i it 's , when we had sprouts it used to get its hind legs and pull them down and start ploughing at them . |
| 4 | Now she 'll transmit in code every hour , on the hour , and you 'll read those signals and write them down then give a receipt . |
| 5 | Nor could you just shut your eyes and throw them down the hatch ; because the whole pleasure of a chicken 's foot would come from sucking and nibbling it slowly , seeking out the tasty skin and the fragments of flesh like the last moments of a particularly luscious spare rib . |
| 6 | As Floy and Snodgrass watched in silence , the Elms stretched out their hard , lichen-crusted branches and brought them down on the prisoner 's shoulders and thighs , at the place where the skin had started to tear . |
| 7 | These powerful mountain-dwelling Elves leapt among the Naggarothi assassins and chopped them down with their great axes , saving Caledor 's life . |
| 8 | Up in the chestnut branches girls and boys were clambering about , hitting at the spiked green conkers and knocking them down on to the heads below . |
| 9 | Noise had become Ariel 's lot : she , who had lifted her feet and put them down again so quietly on the slopes that birds did not stir at her passing , was used to hearing a single song in her head at any one time . |
| 10 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 11 | First came the minstrels , yelling war songs , and when they had finished they tore off their mantles and threw them down before the Empress , saying now that they had fought for her such clothes were no longer worthy of them and would she give them new ones ? |
| 12 | Sarah went round the room , picking up objects and putting them down again . |
| 13 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 14 | The children then have to find the hiding places and write them down . |
| 15 | Wishing hard to avoid the carved arches , I invited all manner of alternatives and shot them down one by one as unsuitable . |
| 16 | Would he really let rhinoceroses out of cages so they charged people in the suburbs and trampled them down and ate them alive ? |
| 17 | At eighteen it 's so easy to romanticise things and put them down in a song . |
| 18 | Shortly before the vote Saddam Hussein had made a speech broadcast by Baghdad radio , asserting that if war came Iraq would fight with a heroism which would fill every Arab and Moslem with pride , and , more specifically , that Iraq had the means to detect US stealth bombers and shoot them down like any other enemy aircraft . |
| 19 | And so they went on , making suggestions and turning them down , and the evening passed with incredible speed . |
| 20 | The fresh air hit him and he sucked in lungfuls and drank them down . |
| 21 | And this is the bit where I said you need to sit with your partner and all , and really think about what your objectives and write them down . |
| 22 | Once on the ferry , Amanda and he had gone to the snack-bar and eaten prepacked sausage rolls and washed them down with beer ; she seemed to be able to drink quantities without degenerating into giggles like one or two earlier companions . |
| 23 | I remember he was fascinated about the Nilson murders , the man who cut up bodies and melted them down in his garden . ’ |
| 24 | For this take young supple stems and bend them down to the soil . |
| 25 | The sheet had embroidery in gold around its border , and Turakina began to inspect it section by section , snipping at loose threads or stitching them down . |
| 26 | Cornelius threw up his hands and brought them down amidst a torrent of hair . |
| 27 | He reached towards her with his strong hands and pressed them down on the fine-boned structure of her shoulders , massaging with rhythmic , kneading movements . |
| 28 | He found some more dregs of many different drinks and tossed them down . |
| 29 | So how does pancreatic lipase , an enzyme that knocks around in the essentially aqueous environment of the small intestine , get to grips with fats and oils and break them down into the glycerol and fatty acids that are readily absorbed by the lining of the gut ? |
| 30 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |