Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money has driven them deeper into the planet , money has brought them down in the world … |
| 2 | computers and that and er he left it and he just carried on talking about this that and the other , and he says right I 'm going and he went and he left the game , he 'd brought it down for the kids , he did n't say , you know |
| 3 | He had n't meant to say it , but it was the effect of the beer and the movement of the ship and her sophistication , all things he could n't cope with together , so he 'd taken her down to the bar and they 'd had a couple more drinks to restore his confidence before the boat docked . |
| 4 | If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’ |
| 5 | It would have suited you down to the ground . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But Laura was a piranha ; she 'd have chewed him down to the bone if he had let her . |
| 9 | It would even be worth surrendering his prey , to have brought him down to the ignominy of lying to excuse himself . |
| 10 | To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church . |
| 11 | Loads of people had let him down over the years , so I did n't want to be one of them . |
| 12 | He did not know if she had written it down in the letter , or if the cake was to be his punishment for all the bad things he had done . |
| 13 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 14 | They 've got him down at the station for questioning . |
| 15 | so , anyway , I just , we 've got it down on the floor and I says if we had a brown suite |
| 16 | I had got myself down on the floor of the Superdome Convention Hall to make a video . |
| 17 | It was very hard indeed to believe she had walked in there with a wolf creature and that he had drawn her down onto the forest floor and made love to her … |
| 18 | Still she could hear her own cries , as she had begged to be released — but nay , he had flung her down on the stone floor and leaned over her . |
| 19 | And was still wondering some half an hour later when Rosa had settled her down for the night but frustration , sharper than any pangs of hunger , was keeping her awake . |
| 20 | Ralph had laid it down in the 1950s . |
| 21 | She heard the door close behind her , but not before the sound of laughter had followed her down towards the lift . |
| 22 | Frankie Albright was nineteen and just young enough to have missed the war ; he had tried to sign up when he was sixteen , only to be informed upon by his mother , who had followed him down to the recruiting office . |
| 23 | Familiarity with the voices that had haunted him down through the years had encouraged a bravado that was little like his real self . |
| 24 | And he had taken them down into the Southern Ocean , not as far as we were going , but far enough to be in amongst the ice , circumnavigating the whole land mass of Antarctica in waters no man had ever sailed before . |
| 25 | They had taken him down in the lift and he had stood there looking at her face , peaceful and still . |
| 26 | Rose had noticed this and she had put it down to the awe and respect in which the man she so loved was held , and she was loath to see differently now . |
| 27 | On that occasion she had put it down to the letter from Doreen , but now she began to wonder if the real cause of his irritation had stemmed from the fact that he had embraced her . |
| 28 | The thing is I mean if you turn round and just say to them well they 're messing about with all the hours we 've put it down to the erm |
| 29 | I never give up on people — even those who have let me down in the past . |
| 30 | The industrial revolution and the creation of parks around the country houses have taken us down to the later years of the nineteenth century . |