Example sentences of "down [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 31 | If a man and a woman like each other , decide to settle down together and get married , what is so strange about that ? |
| 32 | On the other hand it may represent a genuine attempt by specialists in related subjects to sit down together and plan a programme which allows for separate activities but suggests common themes and provides examples of integrated lessons as in the Nigerian Cultural and Creative Art syllabus . |
| 33 | We then all sit down together and discuss these various options over and over again until the board has reached a position of understanding of where in broad terms we think the strategy of the individual business should fit . |
| 34 | Sit down together and talk honestly about what 's happened , what it could involve in practical terms , what you 'll probably all have to do without . |
| 35 | Unless they are pre-mensile eyes you know , they sort of they come out , sort of go down together and be just above the actual eyelid . |
| 36 | Let me finish in a very positive note in saying that I 'm as concerned as the speaker to which I reply that that day will be reached and reached soon , please God , when we can sit down together and share fully in the sacrament of the lord 's supper . |
| 37 | Er two of us went down to Oxford we pick her and her boyfriend up in Shrewsbury and we went all down together and erm excuse me . |
| 38 | However , we now have an opportunity to show that Europe can address European problems and that we will intervene in a way that will give the people of Yugoslavia the opportunity to sit down together and find a peaceful solution to the problems . |
| 39 | And the lion and the lamb shall lie down together and every man shall sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid . |
| 40 | We , we do find it as a , as a group very difficult to organise ourselves and for us to have some time to sit down together and feed off one another and talk about it so this is quite , that 's quite hopeful , and I think that does show erm , something the same as er , I 'm sure Jack would say the same thing , like here we are , you know , we 've got all the incoming calls , we 've got all the other stuff to do , and what we 're actually doing when we 're trying to make appointments and so on is we , we fit it in , because we 're half way through |
| 41 | Having looked at all the options , sit down together and decide what to go for . |
| 42 | No , but possibly you could sit down together and go through it . |
| 43 | Con settled down opposite and when the boxer leaped to lick his face he clumped him companionably on the head with his fist . |
| 44 | Martin sat down opposite and quickly flattened a book out in front of him . |
| 45 | He helped her to cream and sugar , then , taking his own black , sat down opposite and looked at her . |
| 46 | In the 1960s there is evidence that the process of equalisation began to slow down somewhat and statistics suggest that the first oil shock of 1973 actually reversed the trend altogether with disparities tending to widen . |
| 47 | The impersonality of this discourse of power is here used to signify an unfeeling bureaucracy out of touch with the realities of policing a riot — ‘ Officers who are unfortunately set alight should lie down patiently and wait their turn to be put out . ’ |
| 48 | " If you will only sit down patiently and wait , our master , who is the most generous man in the world , will certainly give you a good supper when he comes back . |
| 49 | Her camp confirms the lengths to which Kylie is prepared to go to maintain the environment-friendly campaign and reveals she REFUSES to handle everyday plastics , because they can not be broken down naturally and pose a threat to the habitat . |
| 50 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 51 | and then we carried straight on again but I wanted to get it done today , I did n't want to go back again weekend they want to get the carpets down inside and they 've got all the carpets there in the house , I mean it 's twenty eight foot long , twelve foot wide so erm we got the carpets in down and we 've got it in the house and it 's too big |
| 52 | I mean I do it sort of a bit naturally , I mean if you , you know that what , the Delvine Hotel , I mean I sort of went in and I du n no sort of part way in I sort of said can I ask you if , you know , you 've had your other quotes and he sort of said yes we 're gon na sit down tonight and make our minds up |
| 53 | is n't it , er the junction there , and there was all erm deceleration lines and that across the road , they were slowing down anyway and we were gon na really narrow the cones and they were approaching a roundabout so I |
| 54 | Robyn put the phone down morosely and felt a shiver run the length of her body . |
| 55 | Caroline Morrell , from OCADU , do you want to press your button , Caroline , so that everybody will please sit down normally and naturally , and maybe moved a bit closer to you , they 'll pick up what you 're saying . |
| 56 | As soon as she realised what had happened she had jumped down guiltily and run home . |
| 57 | Most of these are basically simple , involving sitting or lying down comfortably and focusing awareness on a pleasing thought ( ‘ Still and calm … still and calm ’ or whatever ; or invent your own ) ; a soft ‘ nonsense sound ’ ( a mantra ) that you repeat under your breath ; on the rise and fall of your chest as you breath ; or successively on different parts of the body , starting at the toes and working upwards . |
| 58 | ( Grunte settled down comfortably and glanced at his Daily Mail ; Angela never used one word where three would ‘ suffice ’ . ) |
| 59 | There are other signs that might lead you to believe that there 's things not as they might be , the legs may not be equal length particularly if only one is dislocated and that 's fairly obvious is n't it because the , the , the ball joint 's not in the socket and there 's a bigger gap so the leg hangs down longer and you 've all changed a baby have n't you and you see that they 've got little creases in the insides of their legs and across their buttocks , and those creases may not be a mirror matching they are normally , so those are clues . |
| 60 | Feeling the blush mount in her cheeks , she looked down quickly and , picking up her knife and fork , forced herself to start eating . |