Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
| 2 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 3 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 4 | He even entertained them down here , but she took it all in her stride . |
| 5 | Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay |
| 6 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 7 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 8 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 9 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
| 10 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 11 | The target of 221 for 3 seemed beyond Maldon early on as Essex II bowler Glen Bolton and Nigel Hilliard pinned them down . |
| 12 | But if they was good hay and that and you tramped them down they stayed for ages . |
| 13 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 14 | Then , one afternoon , Didier led me down the rue de Fleuve to the cemetery . |
| 15 | He led me down the hallway and into the communal kitchen . |
| 16 | After a time it got me down , this continued evasion of me , it was like a form of torture . |
| 17 | I was extremely tired and the night feeds really got me down . |
| 18 | If I 'd been fitter and actually lived in London it would n't have been a problem but spending 24 hours a week in heavy traffic , being away from home and missing out on spending time with my children just got me down . |
| 19 | These were the only things on the Sorrento that got me down ; at night they sallied from every crack and crevice and nibbled dead skin on the soles of my feet . |
| 20 | If I 'd been fitter and actually lived in London it would n't have been a problem but spending 24 hours a week in heavy traffic , being away from home and missing out on spending time with my children just got me down . |
| 21 | I 'd never enjoyed the media interest and the goldfish-bowl aspect of driving , and while I was grateful to have fans their continual invasion of my privacy got me down . |
| 22 | Right , only got me down cos I was tired , I told you . |
| 23 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 24 | Stooping , he grabbed up the letters and stuffed them down behind the chair cushion just as the door opened and his sister walked in . |
| 25 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 26 | scrap through the remains of erm and got the wire wool and got them down and washed them , what I would like today if you would be so kind as to assist when you 've finished your pottery is to re-label these , now some of you er , have already finished pottery and start straight away , those who only have the finishing touches to do , start half way through the lesson or whatever , but I do intend to give a demonstration now , so , could you gather all round |
| 27 | ‘ I originally got them down first to 100 , then to 80 , but finance dictated that I select a smaller number . |
| 28 | He waited while the Inspector got them down . |
| 29 | you got them down here . |
| 30 | He lifted her fingers to the head of his parrot and stroked them down along its back . |