Example sentences of "down [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds : ‘ In the last year , most restaurants have brought their prices down or kept them the same as last year . |
| 2 | If I look up to the blue sky , as yet I must when it is blue and bright suddenly , it is in spite of the heavy limb and relaxing back that will drag me down or cause me to hasten home . |
| 3 | Often I felt so full after eating that I had to lie down or drag myself to lectures , feeling as though I 'd just eaten three Christmas dinners . |
| 4 | The bold spirits stood and made a show until the muskets cut them down or sent them fleeing . |
| 5 | I could never break it down or lever it open . |
| 6 | Would it slow them down or make them more vicious ? |
| 7 | He must either barge the door down or make one more supreme effort to leave the way he had come in . |
| 8 | You are obviously feeling down or doubting your abilities . |
| 9 | They will bounce light up or down or spread it horizontally , depending on the type of shade . |
| 10 | But as a result of other companies either closing down or reducing their workforce , employment in this area of industry has actually fallen . |
| 11 | You have to pull it down or leave it down all the time because you always have to leave the light on there anyway |
| 12 | Your best hope is to cause enough damage to slow it down or destroy it . |
| 13 | We just do n't seem to be able to track them down or attract them in quite the same way , so there is a massive practical problem if you want them to have a voice in how things are done , there 's no doubt about that . |
| 14 | I wo n't let you down or let anyone else hurt you again . |
| 15 | Slither down or did you ? |
| 16 | They took into account whether I had put matches down or taken them away . |
| 17 | If possible , try to relax , lie down or put your feet up , until the worst of the symptoms are over . |
| 18 | A ‘ smack in the mouth ’ will usually be sufficient , especially if the opponent then backs down or buttons his lip . |
| 19 | That event & 's separation in the same year blighted by retirement … but is now divorced & we 've all brushed ourselves down & picked ourselves up again ! ) ) |
| 20 | But how did you know that there was n't some big secret , some big , evil deal going down that involves you but had been kept secret from you ? |
| 21 | Lay them down and raise their legs |
| 22 | The effectiveness usually lasts for some weeks , but is variable , depending largely on the amount of new growth being produced , and therefore the rate at which the toxic content is being diluted , and the speed of living — called the metabolic rate — which affects the rate at which the plant is able to break down and divest itself of what after all is a ‘ foreign body ’ . |
| 23 | He had his time-proven tests for this : one was simply to walk over the land and to ‘ feel it through his boots ’ , ; then again he would take up a handful of soil , carefully crumbling it to test it ; or he would bend down and draw his fist backwards through the soil . |
| 24 | Gable refused to work further and Metro 's boy-wonder Irving Thalberg had to fly out to the location at Catalina to calm Gable down and persuade him to continue filming . |
| 25 | Finally he got so used to me calling that he asked me to come down and give them a hand fixing it up . |
| 26 | Money never conspired between them , between , they just all would come down and give you a hand and that was it . |
| 27 | so I said right I 'll come down and give you a you a hand with it and it was the re-dedication or re-commissioning of a ship |
| 28 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 29 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 30 | She pushed them down and left them on the floor . |