Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] down [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the Monday I tried to settle down to a meeting at Alexander Fleming House ( the DHSS 's headquarters at the Elephant and Castle ) with Tony Newton who had joined the department as Parliamentary Secretary for Social Security . |
| 2 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 3 | I needed to sit down for a minute . |
| 4 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
| 5 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 6 | Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her . |
| 7 | ‘ If I wanted to settle down for a quiet read I 'd prefer the Kensington public library . |
| 8 | Well done , excellent , erm , as you can see , in some ways quite a complex er , issue , and it 's one of those things really , I think to fully understand this , you got to sit down with a pencil and paper and work it through yourself . |
| 9 | Ring her up , see if she wants to come down for a drink . |
| 10 | and go out and that , if you want to come down for a couple of days . |
| 11 | what would you like to go down as a scrubber ? |
| 12 | Mum had a habit , whenever she sent me any distance on an errand , of insisting that I had clean bloomers on , ‘ in case yer get knocked down by a 'orse ’ , which was why I was scared of them . |
| 13 | White as any linen , she had sunk down on a rock . |
| 14 | You have to sit down for a minute — |
| 15 | We got settled down in a couple of cane chairs , and I gave her a cigarette . |
| 16 | I think we 've settled down to a pattern of events now which schools have actually indicated to us is what they want to see . |
| 17 | so we had to sit down for a while . |
| 18 | for me meeting with Jim was to say , yes , that 's fine but if at the end of the day we have to train down to a certain level within our group , there 's no way can we afford five man-days of lost fees and fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 19 | But one senior officer told us they felt let down by a legal system which denies them the right to detain an offender who 's cost 400 police hours in just 6 months . |
| 20 | the pit and the the circular with a saw you know , the wood , they had to go down in a in a pit . |
| 21 | But erm you see , they suggested going down for a meeting he 's up to his eyes in it ! |
| 22 | ‘ Well , ’ Yanto began hastily , ‘ I was told he got pinned down for a week in no-man 's land during the battle of the Somme in 1916 . |
| 23 | As it is , he has gone down as a highly skilled bowler who , because he lacked the flamboyance of some of his colleagues , attracted less attention than many of them ; but who consistently , almost stealthily , got on with the job of collecting three or four wickets in innings after innings after innings . |
| 24 | He wants to move down to a smaller house in Weybridge . |
| 25 | ‘ I just hope we can catch up with him before he gets knocked down by a car or finds his way off the roads into open countryside or woodland where it will be harder to find him . ’ |
| 26 | It began counting down from a starting position of 30:00 . |
| 27 | He needed to come down from a greater height than most . |
| 28 | They argued that the rapid movements involved in a star 's collapse would mean that the gravitational waves it gave off would make it ever more spherical , and by the time it had settled down to a stationary state , it would be precisely spherical . |
| 29 | he had gone down without a sound — and by the time he had woken up , his ship had been two days out into the Channel . |
| 30 | In the winter he had gone down with a slight burst of influenza and anyone would have thought it was the plague . |