Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody invited Miss Honey to sit down so she chose a chair and sat down anyway . |
| 2 | By nine that morning they were parked on a side-street off Tottenham Court Road , Bodie at the wheel of the Capri , Doyle slouched down in the passenger seat , idly , almost cursorily , watching the heavy flow of traffic up towards Warren Street . |
| 3 | Pathfinders in Space obeyed all the ground rules Sydney Newman laid down for doing drama on Television . |
| 4 | Secondly , he must make sure Hirst knuckles down and gets his feet back on the ground . |
| 5 | Blair crept down to the bank whilst I rehearsed various reasons to explain why he had not caught the trout : lack of experience , bad casting technique . |
| 6 | The decisive response by the Kennedy administration to a potential missile gap and the Sino-Soviet crisis were the two main factors forcing Moscow to scale down its claims . |
| 7 | Blushing and slowly understanding , Alexandra laid down her spoon . |
| 8 | His father brushed the chair he had been sitting on and , with a flourish , invited Madeleine to sit down . |
| 9 | As Lisa laid down the phone her hand was shaking . |
| 10 | Isabel laid down her cards . |
| 11 | He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house . |
| 12 | Harrogate scored all their points in the first half with a try by their Yorkshire scrum half , Guy Easterby , from a blind side scrum move , Steve Baker touching down a try following a tap penalty move . |
| 13 | Denis flung down his gun in disgust . |
| 14 | Stewart plays down crowd 's stone attack |
| 15 | The judges will hear arguments next month and make their rulings , with luck , before Germany shuts down for August . |
| 16 | Now Gary sit down |
| 17 | Rosheen bent down and pushed aside the rocks that covered Postine 's horribly crushed body . |
| 18 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 19 | Sophie bent down to examine her patient . |
| 20 | The beam came to rest on the Ngo brothers , and after a moment 's hesitation Duclos bent down and seized Hoc by the arm . |
| 21 | Harvey sank down into the parched grass . |
| 22 | ON THE BAWL : David Kelly shouts down Steve Walsh |
| 23 | — But Sheila moved down to London with Bob and she got a job no bother . |
| 24 | The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Antananarivo , Cardinal Victor Razafimahatratra , appealed to Ratsiraka to stand down . |
| 25 | Liz Headleand stared at the scene with a marked lack of dismay , as Kate Armstrong knelt down and started to dust the earth off Giles , looking up to ask anyone who might be interested about the little blobs of white polystyrene that always seem to come mixed with bulb fibre : ‘ What is this stuff ? ’ asked Kate , ‘ I 've often wondered , ’ as she proceeded to re-pot a hyacinth with one hand while stroking Giles 's shoulder with the other . |
| 26 | Having handed over her letter and waved goodbye , Perdita wandered down to the stables . |
| 27 | Fellow Cooperite Sir Brian Jenkins stands down as Mayor on 12 November . |
| 28 | EAST GERMANY battened down the hatches yesterday on the eve of Mikhail Gorbachev 's arrival in its capital , Berlin , for the fortieth anniversary of the country 's creation . |
| 29 | William bent down to examine it . |
| 30 | Adimov sagged down onto his mattress and his head was half-buried in his pillow and there was a redness in his eyes . |