Example sentences of "down [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where it is possible , it is valuable to learn brinkmanship , because you also learn to reduce your feelings of stress under pressure and to make better use of thermals lower down where they are often smaller and more difficult to centre . |
| 2 | Instead you must note down where they are hidden . |
| 3 | There was still no sign back home that anyone else was yet up , so Patsy put the paper bag down where they were playing and the two of them resumed their game . |
| 4 | They stared in surprise and she said in a tired voice , ‘ Oh it does n't matter , I suppose , not the old skull , but he 's run me ragged just lately , picking up things round the house and putting them down where they should n't be . |
| 5 | Unionists did not wish to stand down where they had a candidate of their own ready to fight ; in these circumstances , the NDP did remarkably well in 1918 , winning eleven seats , all in Labour strongholds where neither Unionists nor Coalition Liberals had much desire to stand , and they beat both MacDonald and Henderson . |
| 6 | I wanted Hugo to return at once , at once , to keep the niggling doubts down where they belonged : what was going on ? |
| 7 | I do not want over-regulation or road traffic engineers simply toeing the line and following regulations as they are laid down where they may not be appropriate for their particular locality . |
| 8 | At 5' 9 ’ and eight stone , Desiree took Tyson out for the big count and put him down where he belongs . |
| 9 | And then you put that down where you think is the right place and you get really pissed off cos it 's moving really slowly and moving the board outline as well . |
| 10 | I 'm warm and tired and the ground 's soft , so I just lie down where I am and shut my eyes . |
| 11 | She opened her eyes , smiled down where I stood waist-deep in water still — the smile itself a quick gasp on evening air — then she was upright , running along the jetty to where Edward waited with the towels . |
| 12 | I got up , walked backwards towards the nearest dune , threw the can way high over the top of it , then came back , lay down where I 'd been sitting earlier , and closed my eyes . |
| 13 | The towpath proper did n't start until a few yards further down where it angled away from the road and followed the river ; here it was marked by a narrow strip of waterside grass and trees that would immediately raise the cost of any overlooking property by at least ten thousand . |
| 14 | Suppose a notebook might come in useful to jot anything down or whatever . |
| 15 | There are many tales of madness overcoming travellers whose cars have broken down or whose camels have died . |
| 16 | ‘ I kept thinking that the bike would break down or something else would happen to me for I 've been in the lead so many times here only to be disappointed . |
| 17 | Unless they 've knocked them garages down or something |
| 18 | just calm him down or something but |
| 19 | Fifteen hundred pound if he was prepared to put a deposit down or something that would have been fifteen hundred quid . |
| 20 | That 's where I got them in Bewise they 're closing down or something or |
| 21 | We could can prime them up on what to say and types of things to talk about so they do n't get moaned down or something ! |
| 22 | I think it was feather , or down or something . |
| 23 | Jump up and down or something ? |
| 24 | its when they find out when he 's three years old , his face is on upside down or something , oh god Marathon Man I 'll be on tonight , I hate that film , that 's that terrible bit with the dentist and the teeth |
| 25 | The one that kept that getting out when the wall got knocked down or something ? |
| 26 | But I 'll go down or something . |
| 27 | But even if this tape is going to record the last speech of somebody famous and it did n't get and therefore they could n't record it , that is co , the consequence of a delay , you know , a fall of snow or our vehicle breaking down or something not being done , or missed some in human , some human error , it 's not our , we do n't lay , we 'll give , we 'll insure or offer transit liability on the value of the goods providing you 've got additional full transit liability with us , but we wo n't for the loss of business because you did n't get it . |
| 28 | I do n't know , whoever 's going down or something . |
| 29 | Like you know , at the end of they 're coming in to landing and they 're wheel 's do n't come down or something ? |
| 30 | So you know , I say things like oh I 'm going down to see Zoey now before dinner and like she 'll follow me down or something and I 'll say oh are you going into the saloon or like to try and get her to not come with me , then I feel so guilty I think well poor Marina , you know , she 's here in a foreign country , she has n't got any friends and she 's all by herself and I would n't like it if I was in her position |