Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not very often that I come down from the pulpit but I feel this would be a genuinely worthwhile exercise , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The figures that I quoted were given in a written answer to a question that I put down about the cutbacks in regional preferential assistance . |
| 3 | But this was a wee sort of lump that I had down at the bottom of my vagina . |
| 4 | When the telephone rang Leonora got up listlessly , so certain it would be one of Elise 's friends that she slid down on the floor in a heap , heart thumping , at the sound of Penry 's voice . |
| 5 | The room was silent as she scrabbled in her box of pieces and , from the very bottom , produced a couple that she set down on the board with two decisive clicks . |
| 6 | You can buy those things that you push down on the top like that , and you |
| 7 | It 's to remind us that we sweep down from the upper world , slide round the bottom of the circle , and sweep up again , no trouble , if we have any sense . " |
| 8 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 9 | He puts himself in good light by adding that he gripped me tightly round the shoulders in reassurance , that he gave me brandy , that we talked long after the starlings had ceased their chatter , that we walked down into the street and discussed in jogging stride what guilt or shame or desire could do to the human soul . |
| 10 | She was the type of young woman who loves danger ; and she insisted that we lie down in the entrance way to a park . |
| 11 | So that they floated down to the next district and they would n't have to bother . ’ |
| 12 | So that they float down to the next district and you do n't have to report them ? ’ |
| 13 | At the top the beetles have discovered the dead mouse ; they bury it by tunnelling beneath it and removing the earth from below so that it drops down into the excavation ; at the bottom as the mouse sinks down into the earth the beetles roll it into a ball ready for the reception of their eggs . |
| 14 | Mortars are shorter , heavier weapons than cannons , designed to lob an explosive shell high into the air so that it drops down on the target from the sky . |
| 15 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |
| 16 | According to a report in the Independent of Sept. 17 Dharsono 's release was " a gesture of appeasement " by Suharto to groups within the military which had demanded that he step down at the end of his fifth term . |
| 17 | There was a moment during the shooting of Midnight Cowboy when Dustin gave so much energy to the character 's cough that he fell down in the street vomiting . |