Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] down and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after ‘ tedious battering the top thereof with pick-axes ’ did they eventually undermine two of its six sides bringing them down and leaving the tower in the state in which it is today . |
| 2 | If you stare at a Rottweiler it thinks you are challenging it and goes for you immediately , knocking you down and tearing your throat out . |
| 3 | While the Romans were dusting themselves down and rearranging their feathers and mini-skirts , the lurking Brits emerged from the woods and advanced in a rabble brandishing their rolling pins . |
| 4 | He saw that two men were now holding me , pushing me down and punching me and he recognized the man who was walking up the stairs . |
| 5 | Hunting him down and destroying him forever can become a full-scale adventure in itself . |
| 6 | Er and then we 'd used to repeat right the way through the day , we had a bus say for sixteen hours and it erm repeated itself every hour and that was boring job just writing it down and repeating it . |
| 7 | The goal is made concrete by writing it down and making a commitment to it . |
| 8 | The herbicide Agent Orange and all that it represents , from carpet bombing of rainforests to bulldozing them down and removing their topsoil , managed to demolish a fifth of Vietnam 's tree cover and to replace it , in great stretches , with a moonscape of bomb craters . |
| 9 | We discovered that by making permanent changes to their usual diets individuals felt that their general health improved dramatically ; they felt far better mentally , and they managed to lose those ugly pounds of flesh that had been slowing them down and stubbing their ego . |
| 10 | Sonja was as usual being difficult and her mother was trying to strike an impossible balance between calming her down and getting her to do as she was told . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Assuming that no mature way can be found to speak from the workers ' culture or meaning system , as opposed to breaking it down and imposing on it other meaning systems such as that espoused by management , then passive individuals will be fostered . |
| 13 | It is not cutting the forest , going away , leaving it and letting the trees look after themselves , and the rest of the forest regrow , without actually going in and cutting it down and burning it . |
| 14 | So , the really destructive thing is cutting it down and burning it and turning it over either to shifting agricultural , or permanent agriculture , ranching or something else . |
| 15 | I had not before realised that my canoe had been following me but I soon felt it as the point hit my back and then went down underneath me , dragging me down and sandwiching me between the canoe and the tree . |
| 16 | Owners of domestic dogs do not normally expect their pets to be out hunting prey , bringing it down and killing it , in the same fashion as their wild cousins — the wolf on the Arctic Tundra or the Cape hunting dog of the African Serengeti . |
| 17 | At giving the baby his last feed at ten and putting him down and hoping that he 'd stay asleep till well half past five to six the next morning . |
| 18 | The cabinet slammed full against the shape , pinning it down and jamming sideways at the bottom of the stairwell . |
| 19 | She cried out and , seeing how white she was , he pushed her on to the settee , following her down and crowding her against the arm . |