Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If for instance erm Fred Bloggs at the end of the office is sick on Friday he turns off his P C at lunchtime and goes home and we do the software upgrade during the afternoon on Friday , then his P C wo n't get the upgrade to the software because we 're sending it down the network . |
| 2 | I said oh just when it got dark really I said we 're having it down the house , I said erm drank more port I said every time we went to the loo they filled up my glass |
| 3 | Said what 's wrong , he says Raymond I 'm taking him down the Grosvenor Road and there 's fucking old Paddy , we used to work with him , standing outside the f you know opposite The Royal ? |
| 4 | How aware are you that the powers that be could be steering you down a particular course ? |
| 5 | They were reading it down the tape and I had to tape it all . |
| 6 | The isolation is getting me down a bit — I have had to seek to be pretty resilient spiritually with George in , and so the extra resources are pretty deplete because of that . |
| 7 | Freddy Krueger is chasing you down an alley , his knives raised menacingly . |
| 8 | This assumes that girls themselves want to do this , unlike Kate whose response to being given contraceptive pills by her mother was to put them down the toilet . |
| 9 | And er then th one man used to load the barrel , and the other man was to put them down the plank . |