Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps you could help Cook to wash up , ’ she suggested , bringing me down to earth with a bang . |
| 2 | Instead of slapping me down , as any surgeon could quite reasonably have done in those circumstances , and particularly a surgeon with his reputed bite , he said simply , ‘ Not having seen them , I ca n't truthfully answer you , but from what I 've heard the two in the black car should have a fair chance . |
| 3 | Arrange these around the edge of the cake , sticking them down with dots of jam . |
| 4 | While I ca n't condone this sort of cheating Mr Unce , I have found two very good methods are tucking them down your sock or writing them on your shirt cuff . |
| 5 | ‘ And will she be bringing them down here to stay do you think ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For the day , for bringing them down . |
| 8 | I was just worried that you 'd be furious with me for bringing them down here when you were out of the country . |
| 9 | Some of these things as well , they 've been pinching back from upstairs , toys they , they 've played with when they were smaller and they do n't play with them now and I put them upstairs out of the way and they keep going and finding them and bringing them down . |
| 10 | In all cases it is not a matter of tearing them down ( at least not at the time of the communication ) but of making then part of the communication . |
| 11 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) in California , for instance , was once a naval air station , where in more innocent days the ground crews cleaned engines by hosing them down with carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethane ( TCE ) . |
| 12 | And that was it and erm so then everybody 's saying so , you know , I 'll come banging on your door and saying what do you think you 're doing , you know , knocking me down to eighty five pounds a week or , or whatever it is and , you know , obviously there were various feedbacks from that and then the summing up of it was , so is that what you 're going to do to the D S S when you , when you retire ? |
| 13 | The soloist was keeping them down . |
| 14 | It was an extremely windy day , and we had problems keeping them down . |
| 15 | I 'm keeping them down . |
| 16 | Allow the applied force gradually to separate your knees , driving them down to the mat . |
| 17 | I 'm driving them down , and I 'm going to stay a few days to help them settle in , I 'll be staying at a pub — ’ |
| 18 | One teacher asked if there would be any extra time given to produce the self-appraisal reports but the director argued that the information should be available already — that it was a matter of taking something on aims and objectives and ‘ dusting them down ’ . |
| 19 | Are you sort of winding them down ? |
| 20 | Make the patchwork on the shells by spreading the glue over a small area , laying on scraps of cloth and pressing them down with the damp cloth . |
| 21 | Up in the chestnut branches girls and boys were clambering about , hitting at the spiked green conkers and knocking them down on to the heads below . |
| 22 | As they were knocking them down , Corman was following me around with the camera directing my speaking parts . |
| 23 | Ray was knocking them down one by one , unlike his tragic ancestor who only knocked himself down . |
| 24 | Eh , he says , she 's not rocking , he said , When you see them lifeboats , he says , you know she 's knocking them down . |
| 25 | Or is this yet another example of the Government and their supporters talking up human rights in theory and knocking them down in practice ? |
| 26 | On a tree-stump beside one cave-mouth , a raccoon sits swatting them down with its paw , munching the little bodies and discarding the skinny wings onto a growing pile on the ground beside it . |
| 27 | Not too hard Grace and just keep on potting them down . |
| 28 | That bloody gaff we 're livin' in now is gettin' 'er down . |
| 29 | He got to his fret and dusting himself down saw a large hole in the door behind him . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , dear me , ’ he said , standing back from the window and dusting himself down , wiping his face with a handkerchief . |