Example sentences of "be [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Images , feelings and emotions are drained down the cords and into the hands of the Great Enchanter , who crushes them into a frail stream of dust , all that remains of the soul . |
| 2 | ‘ The Klans are toning down the rhetoric to make themselves more palatable to Americans . |
| 3 | Ranchers are tearing down the rainforests to make hamburgers . |
| 4 | Swap too soon and the program takes over and performs some miracle that pulls the ass of the Despot you just abandoned out of the fire and next thing you know the secret police are banging down the doors and hauling you and your family off into the night and oblivion ; the machine thereupon promptly declares itself the winner and it 's back to that fucking cave again . |
| 5 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 6 | He has started just two matches so far , having been pushed down the pecking order by the arrival of £2 million David Rocastle from Arsenal . |
| 7 | ‘ I have always felt that it is a crying shame that the works of possibly the greatest writer of all time , William Shakespeare , have — purely for examination purposes — been pushed down the throats of school children . |
| 8 | A KPMG spokesman said : " The environment has been pushed down the agenda of many private companies by other factors such as the recession and exchange rates . |
| 9 | I , I erm , I was off the west co er on a holiday to the west coast of Ireland and we erm we 're driving down the west coast and there was like some rocks and everything about , so we stopped and , you know , I looked by a rock pools or something , and there 's this and the rock pool is like mini-swimming baths , they were , you know , probably |
| 10 | And I said , everybody can hear when they 're walking down the pavement ! |
| 11 | I was gritting my teeth , thinking , ‘ Thank god we 're going down the 18th . ’ |
| 12 | We 're going down the Swanee if we do n't . |
| 13 | We 're going down the north-west staircase and past the garderobe passage . ’ |
| 14 | And do n't forget we 're going down the fracture clinic Alison ! |
| 15 | You know I would n't cos you 're going down the shops . |
| 16 | So you 're going down the south coast , it 's lovely Guildford 's alright , where they , they 're fucking stuck up bitches ! |
| 17 | He ca n't if you put in , if he thinks everything 's rosy here , he ca n't help you , but in fact you 're going down the swanee , you 're only fooling yourselves . |
| 18 | We 're slowing down the traffic ! ’ |
| 19 | You 'd better go now , we 're slowing down the traffic . ’ |
| 20 | Make a comment on stage even , for Christ 's sake , about how sad it is that we 're staring down the barrel of a gun at a fuck of a lot of young corpses , widowed wives and fatherless children ? |
| 21 | Make a comment on stage even , for Christ 's sake , about how sad it is that we 're staring down the barrel of a gun at a fuck of a lot of young corpses , widowed wives and fatherless children ? |
| 22 | They 're chopping down the rain forests . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ They 're putting down the foundations for the bar today , Paul , ’ she told him . |
| 24 | They 've got all this digital equipment and yet they 're standing down the end of a corridor … |
| 25 | They 're laying down the footings for houses and then just leaving them . |
| 26 | Parore had been heading down the leg side — too far , ex-Central Districts keeper Jack Vernon assured me later — and had to change direction . |
| 27 | The Pakistan skipper had been drawn down the pitch by Tufnell 's flight . |
| 28 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 29 | Technological developments have been used down the ages to fragment jobs and de-skill workers , they claim . |
| 30 | All over Central Scotland , men are pulling down the blinds . |