Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 2 | I lowered myself down off the fence . |
| 3 | I track him down to the University of Saskatchewan and just catch him at home before he leaves for work . |
| 4 | I flung myself down on the grass in the sunshine and stared up at the blue . |
| 5 | so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty |
| 6 | I got it down from the top of the wardrobe . |
| 7 | I want you down at the track as soon as possible . |
| 8 | I put it down to the necessity for him to exhibit his physical superiority from time to time , in order to maintain his ‘ throne ’ and his following of stooges . |
| 9 | Again I put it down to the stresses of presenting a live programme five days a week . |
| 10 | I got two bottles of Scotch and I hid one down by the dishwasher . ’ |
| 11 | Libby would not watch ; she hated the high-pitched squealing as the rabbits panicked , hearing a stick thump or a shot ring out , seeing the warm fur parting in the breeze as someone threw it down beside the other corpses . |
| 12 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 13 | Evidently deciding that prudery was the better part of valour , I hotfooted it down to the bedroom again in time to witness half the ceiling crashing in flames on to the bed I had been sleeping in moments before . |
| 14 | I watched them down to the causeway . |
| 15 | Someone brought him down to the hospital a couple of hours ago , and since then his condition has deteriorated . |
| 16 | I took it down to the Spar shop as well . |
| 17 | I took it down from the shelf in my locker and went out of doors . |
| 18 | I put her down on the couch and said , ‘ Just put your head back , ’ and told her some Alexander Principles . |
| 19 | Here , let me' As I put it down on the table I saw that her initials were etched on the flap in black . |
| 20 | If I carry you down to the garden I shall expect your life story in full , a complete and truthful exposé . ’ |
| 21 | He wo n't , he wa he , I had him down on the |
| 22 | I had it down to the finest of details . |
| 23 | I dragged it down to the water on the launching trailer , and pushed off . |
| 24 | Oh right , I write it down on the paper . |
| 25 | I howl , and I throw myself down on the floor . |
| 26 | I settle myself down at the mirror . |
| 27 | I wrote it down on the top of the table with my pencil . |
| 28 | I sat him down on the kerb and called police . ’ |
| 29 | well , somebody found it down by the river just at the back of where they live so it must have been somebody round about |
| 30 | Maybe they saw ‘ little water-trees , starwort and milfoil and crow foot ’ ; and ‘ green caterpillars which let themselves down from the boughs by silk ropes for no reason at all ’ ; and ‘ great spiders with crowns and crosses marked on their backs ’ . |