Example sentences of "it down " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they can be good at conveying what it was like for them to be there , and to be writing it down . |
| 2 | I can only put it down to the strong classical emphasis which prevails in the courses offered in the UK , although many of the university drama courses in the USA do stage Shakespeare and the European classical authors . |
| 3 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 4 | ‘ From the moment I picked up this book to the moment I put it down , ’ wrote GM , ‘ I could n't stop laughing . |
| 5 | I copy it down here to help me go forward . |
| 6 | ‘ The old sex urge , and do n't run it down , Mrs Cornforth . |
| 7 | Put it down here . |
| 8 | She took hold of it and put it down on the floor . |
| 9 | Compassion 's an interesting word — when you break it down it literally means ‘ to suffer with ’ . |
| 10 | Refill with soil and firm it down . |
| 11 | This kind of blow-over can only be avoided by manning the glider all the time or by tying it down with pickets , preferably with the wings level and all its control surfaces locked to prevent them flapping against their stops . |
| 12 | The tow pilot can help by allowing his aircraft to climb away , gaining speed rather than holding it down close to the ground . |
| 13 | But a remnant of caution urged that she tone it down , after all , Lucy … |
| 14 | Thirty had been a party for fifty , and now had honed it down to a fabulous four . |
| 15 | It was all so unreal , she felt she had to write it down to prove it was happening , to have it and hold it to her heart . |
| 16 | Even as you begin to draw back the snap punch , pick up your front foot and set it down diagonally forwards and outwards , using a thrusting action from the rear leg to cover ground . |
| 17 | pull the spent kicking foot right back to the body before setting it down . |
| 18 | And another had capped that : ‘ Aye — send a dollop of it down to London ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ They have done their homework too — they have it down on paper . |
| 20 | ‘ Mind now , Donald , ’ he put in , ‘ or Angus will be telling you to keep it down to forty-nine . |
| 21 | Jean felt belittled ; for as long as the dance lasted she seemed no more to him than any girl there , but then he came round to her again and clasped her closely as they stepped it down the aisle between the lines of dancers . |
| 22 | I gently curved it down , |
| 23 | He gave her the rake and she went vigorously at the hay while he plaited a grass rope to put round a burden and heft it down to the byre . |
| 24 | — I 've told you you 'll hate it down there . |
| 25 | I 'll tell you what sir , he said , I 'll write it down for … here his eyes narrowed a bit , he hesitated , you can … |
| 26 | A little bit further up ( or is it down ? ) the valley on Freda 's Buttress , M. Evans and A. Thornton have been ‘ Frolic ’ ing around on the rightward starting corner at the lefthand end of the buttress , the result being E5 4c . |
| 27 | Although there is much good stuff here and I shall undoubtedly find it a useful reference , on putting it down my chief desire was to out and solo something barefoot ! |
| 28 | Although the formwork was quite heavy , we pegged it down at the four corners as a precaution . |
| 29 | Owners of domestic dogs do not normally expect their pets to be out hunting prey , bringing it down and killing it , in the same fashion as their wild cousins — the wolf on the Arctic Tundra or the Cape hunting dog of the African Serengeti . |
| 30 | I picked up a book , but put it down again and began looking at a tiny red spider on the leaf of a geranium , ad lost count of time . |