Example sentences of "[pron] down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of putting them down for the afternoon , I 'd like to be able to do something with them . |
| 2 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 3 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 4 | Many people say generally that ‘ there should be no whaling for ethical reasons ’ , but when you try to pin them down to a formulation of those ethics , you find it exceedingly difficult and , I am afraid to say , probably unconvincing to most people of the nations of the world . |
| 5 | Old bushes can be brought back to vigorous life by cutting them down to a foot from the ground at the end of winter . |
| 6 | I and er told Lindsey if she 'd ever any problems never to write them down to a friend |
| 7 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
| 8 | For this take young supple stems and bend them down to the soil . |
| 9 | Lift them from the elbows , and them drop them down to the floor . |
| 10 | So he stuck by it so he loosed these two and them down to the shore . |
| 11 | He took them down to the station and sent them off to London by passenger train . |
| 12 | The miners themselves probably found some sort of lodgings in the area but also spent most of their time living in small draughty shelters or " hutts " built near to their work places only severe weather shifting them down to the valley bottoms . |
| 13 | The last recommendation was seized upon by critics who calculate that storing the most frequently-used books high up in the four towers will create a considerable time delay in transporting them down to the reading areas . |
| 14 | I thought I 'd just take them down to the tip , but when we had half a bucket full I thought I 'd better phone the police |
| 15 | Who sent them down to the Florida Keys and left them there in hurricane months ? |
| 16 | Allow the applied force gradually to separate your knees , driving them down to the mat . |
| 17 | As food particles are swept by , they are caught by the tentacles and passed by them down to the mouth . |
| 18 | and we can take them down to the Christmas school fare . |
| 19 | Galway will still go in as underdogs — an unusual position for them — but one that should suit them down to the ground . |
| 20 | Like , when they come in here I 'll bring them down to the canteen and let them have Coke and sweets . |
| 21 | I watched them down to the causeway . |
| 22 | Well we 've fortunately been able to track them down to the waxes which er occur on land so what we 're seeing here is a , an input from the land carried on the dusts which are blown in the winds from the Sahara and other regions out into the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 23 | In June of that year a group of armed men rounded up some of the teachers and started to take them down to the principal 's house . |
| 24 | big woman out there at the wi the weaving , one of the weavers , and if there 's one of the chaps who there getting married oh she straps them down to the weaving . |
| 25 | Gloria tied on her red headscarf , Dot buttoned up her pink cardigan and they went to wait for the bus to take them down to the hospital to see how Baby was doing . |
| 26 | So how can they close them down without the say-so of the people of this country ? |
| 27 | Oxford Crown Court has jailed two men after hearing how drug squad detectives tracked them down during a trip to London . |
| 28 | Suddenly , a ladder broke away , precipitating them down into a heap and unfortunately one was killed . |
| 29 | So how does pancreatic lipase , an enzyme that knocks around in the essentially aqueous environment of the small intestine , get to grips with fats and oils and break them down into the glycerol and fatty acids that are readily absorbed by the lining of the gut ? |
| 30 | It catapults grains of sand at passing ants in an attempt to knock them down into the pit and eat them . |