Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah , yes , ’ Farouk cut in and glanced down at the notepad in front of him . |
| 2 | Well We came in one morning , the electrician and I , about five instead of seven , because we 'd done and er we used to nip in and kip down with the horses for ten minutes which was forbidden , to sleep in the colliery . |
| 3 | A man came in and sat down in the seat opposite him . |
| 4 | They went in and sat down by the fire . |
| 5 | Their leader had quiet words with the cardinal , who smiled , clapped his hands , and a green baize-covered table and two chairs were brought in and set down in the middle of the hall . |
| 6 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 7 | He had his back to me , so I just sneaked in and hid down by the side of the dresser . |
| 8 | Have everything brought in and taken down to the cellar . |
| 9 | Northern prop Roy Powell 's attempt to kick the ball dead miscued , allowing Ropati to dash through and touch down beneath the posts . |
| 10 | Someone kicked his washing-bag over and stared down at the spilled shirt sleeve , the maroon-edged handkerchief . |
| 11 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 12 | Julius strolled over and looked down at the quietly flowing water . |
| 13 | The burly bruiser got up , carried his toddy over and sat down opposite the bearded man , who listened to him muttering , then gave him a silver coin . |
| 14 | At another point , he came over and sat down at the table with them . |
| 15 | This was because , when her long beautiful legs were high in the air , her yellow garter flew off and fell down to the men below . |
| 16 | Directed by Alston , the screaming ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ turned off and shot down through the narrow side streets of the Arab quarter . |
| 17 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 18 | Owen and Georgiades went a little way off and squatted down beneath the trees to wait . |
| 19 | He turned the fire off and sat down on the settee , looking at the woman all the while . |
| 20 | " We can go up under Wandsworth Bridge as far as the Fina Oil Depot and then switch off and drift down with the tide . " |
| 21 | I managed to get my seat belt off and ducked down in the seat to get out of range of the gunshots . ’ |
| 22 | We ca n't afford to get cut off and pinned down in the hold . ’ |
| 23 | Its great plug was lifted up or dropped down through a tubular cage of brass , and its brass taps gaped wide as the mouths of sea lions . |
| 24 | Give yourself a massage either standing up or sitting down on a towel . |
| 25 | From this viewpoint cultural rules are not given determinants of individual action but are continually built up and broken down as the result of individual choices and decisions . |
| 26 | Assuming they were free from spelling and other mistakes , a process which may have involved several attempts , these were cut up and stuck down onto a master layout sheet using wax or gum . |
| 27 | He stood up and walked down to the deep end as he spoke , then he dived in , surfacing at least halfway down the pool , then covering several more lengths in a leisurely crawl . |
| 28 | It 's a chance for them to forget the washing up and their household chores , put their feet up and settle down for a comfortable snooze in front of their favourite television programme ( which really does n't sound much different from normal , does it ? ) |
| 29 | I I tripped up and fell down at the side . |
| 30 | In general , too , rhythmic and temporal features of speech are ignored in transcriptions ; the rhythmic structure which appears to bind some groups of words more closely together than others , and the speeding up and slowing down of the overall pace of speech relative to the speaker 's normal pace in a given speech situation , are such complex variables that we have very little idea how they are exploited in speech and to what effect ( but , cf. |