Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps you could help Cook to wash up , ’ she suggested , bringing me down to earth with a bang . |
| 3 | She does n't avoid the painful issues that divide us — but , as few writers can , she makes us laugh at them and bring them down to size . |
| 4 | ‘ Then bring them down to Central Gardens , where we hope to have the biggest can collection ever seen in the region or perhaps the country . ’ |
| 5 | so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty |
| 6 | If not I 've only got to put them up in the attic and bring them down in three month 's time . |
| 7 | A very simple way of collecting examples of people talking is to sit them down in front of the camera and get them to talk to it . |
| 8 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 9 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 10 | They 've got to condense them down into to micro size , you know like the micro chip |
| 11 | She sits me down in Jamie 's heap of a living room while she clatters in the kitchenette . |
| 12 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 13 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 14 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
| 15 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 16 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 17 | I could see the beginning of cloud formations in the far west that looked as though they might thicken up and , since I wanted to get some shots of the Cove while the light was still good , I set off by Water Sinks , where the water from the Tarn sinks and does n't reappear again until some miles down the valley at Aire Head , and followed the footpath that would take me west of Watlowes dry valley and bring me down to the Cove by the pasture land above the Pennine Way . |
| 18 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 19 | Stooping , he grabbed up the letters and stuffed them down behind the chair cushion just as the door opened and his sister walked in . |
| 20 | Arrange these around the edge of the cake , sticking them down with dots of jam . |
| 21 | I want you to drive me down to the railway station in about half an hour . ’ |
| 22 | We have grown too good , kind and sensitive to mow them down with machine guns , starve them out of existence . |
| 23 | ‘ Some day , when I 'm big and strong , I 'll knock someone down for you , ’ she said . |
| 24 | Pat and Gabriel Horn would code the brain samples and send them down to me for analysis . |
| 25 | We 'll have to say sorry Bill you know w send them down to Dave if Dave 's got time to pull 'em in he will do , if not we 'll you know we 'll have to reply negative . |
| 26 | Galway will still go in as underdogs — an unusual position for them — but one that should suit them down to the ground . |
| 27 | He lifted her fingers to the head of his parrot and stroked them down along its back . |
| 28 | They invited me down to Cincinnati , Ohio , to observe networked computing — or personal computers which are linked together so that information can be transferred from one to another . |
| 29 | Well , it 's all because of the legendary Rob Ellen , who first invited me down from Shetland to tour in the Highlands oh , five years ago . |
| 30 | I and er told Lindsey if she 'd ever any problems never to write them down to a friend |