Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] down and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have some time to spare and would like to sit down and read my copy of the biography of Berlioz . |
| 2 | Your Dad 'll want to pop down and see his blessed allotment before we go to bed anyway . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't need that kind of restriction on my playing , and I 've done it loads of times in the past when recording , always having to think , ‘ Well , I ca n't play the F£ there ; I 'll have to go down and play it there . ’ |
| 4 | I would have liked to have had more departmental meetings where we could all have sat down and discussed it . |
| 5 | If you want that done , you 'll have to come down and do it yourself . |
| 6 | To ‘ catch ’ it you might have to slow down and let it come towards you . |
| 7 | After so many years of being on my own I really do n't want to settle down and commit myself to a relationship . |
| 8 | Gradgrind 's becoming an MP in Hard Times gives him further opportunity for satire : Parliament figures as ‘ the national cinder-heap ’ ( HT ii 11 ) where the MPs , ‘ the national dustmen ’ , get up ‘ a great many noisy little fights amongst themselves ’ ( HT ii 12 ) , and the image recurs in Our Mutual Friend when CD apostrophizes the nation 's legislators : ‘ My lords and gentlemen and honourable boards , when you in the course of your dust-shovelling and cinder-raking have piled up a mountain of pretentious failure , you must off with your honourable coats for the removal of it , and fall to work … or it will come rushing down and bury us alive ’ ( OMF iii 8 ) . |