Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] they down " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if a customer needs an altimeter , PAS can supply the complete article , but if a customer needs just part of the instrument , they are willing to break them down into component form to ensure that the customer gets just what he wants . |
| 2 | Time a week or so after christmas has come you 're you 're glad to get them down and out the way . |
| 3 | ‘ If you do n't like somebody , you 're liable to mark them down , whereas the person who brings you tea every morning gets extra points . |
| 4 | At first people thought that particles of light traveled infinitely fast , so gravity would not have been able to slow them down , but the discovery by Roemer that light travels at a finite speed meant that gravity might have an important effect . |
| 5 | Well we 've fortunately been able to track them down to the waxes which er occur on land so what we 're seeing here is a , an input from the land carried on the dusts which are blown in the winds from the Sahara and other regions out into the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 6 | I 've taken suspects to the police station when I have n't been able to break them down , and I 've told my inspector exactly what 's happened , he 's got the whole picture and then he 's closed the door and called the man in , closed the door . |
| 7 | I shall be interested to hear any arguments in favour of that proposal , for it would be easy to knock them down . |
| 8 | Well I 'll be able to take them down in a minute . |
| 9 | We just do n't seem to be able to track them down or attract them in quite the same way , so there is a massive practical problem if you want them to have a voice in how things are done , there 's no doubt about that . |
| 10 | So I mean you stick those on them and er and er they wo n't be able to cut them down . |
| 11 | You may be able to get them down today . |
| 12 | Terror terror terror — I hate hate hate dreams — no I do n't , I hate hate hate not being able to write them down . |
| 13 | ( It is important to write them down , rather than merely think about them . |
| 14 | It is to be noted that the starred numbers in Table 1 do not need to be calculated , though it is convenient to write them down . |
| 15 | So it 's difficult to put them down on paper ? |
| 16 | The problem is that at first the words are coming so fast it is difficult to write them down , so you really need a helper . |
| 17 | We are told that foxes are vermin and it is necessary to hunt them down . |
| 18 | Now , with a wet 1992 behind them , green shoots are a distinct possibility in the garden , at least , and Atco Qualcast is ready to mow them down . |
| 19 | Initially this new German ‘ victory ’ weapon proved unnerving but before long it became possible for the ‘ V1s ’ to be intercepted by fighter aircraft over the sea , although their speed was a problem , but by moving the bulk of the anti-aircraft artillery units to the Isle of Wight and along the southern coastline of England , it was possible to shoot them down before they reached the London area . |
| 20 | I said I wanted him to meet my Somerville friend , who , with a fellow-student , was by pre-arrangement sitting on an inner windowsill , from which with an air of spontaneity I was able to summon them down . |
| 21 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |