Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if I bring them back down to the floor level they 'll shut up |
| 2 | I 'd only been there about five minutes when they came to escort me off down to Bleak House , where I was stripped naked and given a blanket and put into a cell . |
| 3 | A tilt to the left and it had taken his wing and was driving him back down to the ground ; correction to the right and it was at him that way , turning him round and out of control . |
| 4 | He was trying to pull her back down to the ground and laughing in disbelief as he did it . |
| 5 | Pushing him back down into bed , she stood up , looming over him like the shadows of a nightmare . |
| 6 | ‘ There are people here who bring you back down to earth , ’ says the goalkeeper innkeeper . |
| 7 | Brian , furious , would huff and puff as Mazzin unceremoniously threw him back down on his bed . |
| 8 | ‘ But it started to topple so they had to let it back down on my legs again . |
| 9 | His statement pulled her back down to earth . |
| 10 | Immediately the current caught the oil-drum and with Simon still clinging to it , whisked it off down to the Lock and crashed it into the wooden gates . |
| 11 | ‘ And the reason the boy wonder suddenly rang and invited me to watch him go through his paces was because he wanted to show off something rotten , ’ she teased , intent on bringing him back down to earth . |
| 12 | I borrowed some money from Katrina , packed my suitcases and my travelling bag , and took them off down to London . |
| 13 | What brought you back down to the ground when you jumped just now ? |
| 14 | Owen sent him back down to the cells to think about it . |
| 15 | We took it back down to its medieval level . |
| 16 | So in order to get back to the medieval level , we took it back down to there and we caused the to slope . |
| 17 | Oh yeah , but we well she 's gon na change it , d' ya know when you update it you know they bring it back down with all the different words that , that 's being to the the , the , the , the dialect , not the dialect , the the vocabulary they , they 've , they 've got in America . |
| 18 | I mean he 's come out over the top of his own defenders and i over big Ormanroyd and he can do little else but push it back down into the pack . |
| 19 | I reach forward , the knife in one hand , the other glove touching then gathering and balling a fistful of duvet and then pulling it sharply , throwing it away behind me as I leap forward , seeing her pale nakedness in the same instant as I slap my hand over her mouth ; her eyes open wide and she starts trying to push up ; I force her back down into the bed , hand still over her mouth . |
| 20 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 21 | Come to that , I suppose , most of the other sprinters were hoping that the timing was wrong and were eager to bring me back down to earth . |
| 22 | It gets them up through a business meeting and brings them back down to earth when the crisis is passed . |
| 23 | An aggressive manoeuvre in wave sailing , where the sailor suddenly changes course whilst on the face to bring himself back down to the bottom of the wave . |
| 24 | And I think if we go and have something in down by the sea and see what we 've got there I think it 'll be alright . |
| 25 | His cheerful London accent seemed to bring her back down to earth , and she hurried to unlock the bolts and let him into the hallway . |