Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pron] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd have turned it down without asking except I thought you might be interested — ah — because … ’ he shrugged , unable to find a tactful way of saying that this was the best offer she would get all year . |
| 2 | Any competent social scientist could have shot them down in flames . |
| 3 | If we could have beamed her down like in Star Trek , it would have been all right , but she just could n't cope with getting on a plane or a boat . |
| 4 | By the time he took to do his business , the bank 's video cameras must have had me down as a fairly suspicious character and I was happy to stop fidgeting when he finally turned away from the cashier and headed for the door . |
| 5 | If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’ |
| 6 | Aye I said , so she said the landlord 's never put it down so we thought he 'd have had it down by she come home cos Alison seen it and where they work and th and there 's a room there or something and she 'd asked the boss could she have it for the bathroom . |
| 7 | If Philip had had any sense he 'd have brought it down with him , that and the other stuff . |
| 8 | It would have suited you down to the ground . ’ |
| 9 | Tina would have plumped herself down in the nearest seat even if this had been next to a passenger but Cecilia , conforming to usage , sat in the emptiest area of the coach , on the platform side with her back to the window . |
| 10 | She might have put me down for talking . |
| 11 | She could have put me down for talking |
| 12 | Chase turned out to be a tuba player , of all things , though I would have put him down as backing vocals for The Communards on appearances alone . |
| 13 | If I had n't made it , I would n't have put it down to my colour . |
| 14 | If she had been a religious person she would have put it down to retribution for her sins , but she had lost whatever faith she had had in her years as the Madam of Dublin 's most fashionable brothel . |
| 15 | They would have put it down to an alfresco commercial for one of the shows . |
| 16 | And like well I said to her I said well then Sandy would have put it down to the fact she did that bad in her ballet . |
| 17 | You could have knocked me down with a kiwi fruit . |
| 18 | But Laura was a piranha ; she 'd have chewed him down to the bone if he had let her . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm telling you , ’ she said , ‘ when I heard that big clock in the hall striking the five , you could 've knocked me down with a feather ! |
| 20 | You could 've knocked me down with a feather when they tol ’ me . ’ |