Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [to-vb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I supposed to lie down and be killed , then , so that your horse sha n't be frightened ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Cafiero , that rich son of a pig , he came this way , tried to make the peasants rise on his own estates , ’ Davide 's father was talking , ‘ but he found them hard to excite down Acquaqueta way in spite of everything . |
| 3 | ‘ When you propose , are n't you supposed to go down on your knees ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You okay to get down ? |
| 5 | You ready to go down ? |
| 6 | Alternatively , the analyst could say these different sentences to a group of listeners and ask them all to write down what attitudes they thought were being expressed ; however , we have a vast range of adjectives available for labelling attitudes and the members of the group would probably produce a very large number of such adjectives , leaving the analyst with the problem of deciding whether pairs such as ‘ pompous ’ and ‘ stuck-up ’ , or ‘ obsequious ’ and ‘ sycophantic ’ were synonyms or represented different attitudes . |
| 7 | If you and your children have always talked together on all kinds of subjects , you may find it easier to sit down and talk reasonably and quietly about some of the hard decisions that have to be made . |
| 8 | ‘ After a few days I was n't half as hungry and found it easier to cut down . |
| 9 | The little pinchable one will find it hard to settle down to housewife piety . |
| 10 | Dalglish admitted : ‘ We found it hard to break down their system , which was a compliment to the lads in itself . |
| 11 | Wait for it all to die down , do . |
| 12 | And it did not take long for it all to boil down to that maxim — the Duty To Win . |
| 13 | Before you start on an assembly , you will find it helpful to write down an editing plan . |
| 14 | After my lunch , I thought it better to go down and see them and to show my interest . |
| 15 | If you find it difficult to track down suitably small flowers , looking through a book of alpine plants , or visiting a specialist nursery , could provide you with plenty of inspiration . |
| 16 | In spite of this he was sexually very experienced and attractive to women and found it difficult to turn down their advances . |
| 17 | Articles in industry are not the best preparation for private practice , and unless you have a fairly fixed intention to make your career in industry or commerce you may find it difficult to settle down even for only two or three years in the atmosphere of a company 's legal department . |
| 18 | This often relied upon their so-called ‘ gut reaction ’ to evaluate children 's work , with the Head of Department freely admitting that he found it difficult to break down and assess different aspects of work . |
| 19 | Finding it difficult to get down to middleweight , I decided to fight as a light-heavy in the University trials . |
| 20 | So her former connection with Rustenburg , and the presence there of his brother , may have been among the considerations that prompted Herbert Cranko to choose that town when he found it necessary to settle down after a roving life . |
| 21 | More urgent was the need to find out why Piper had felt it necessary to shut down the neural net like this . |
| 22 | And it was surprising how frequently they found it necessary to motor down to Edmonton or Calgary . |
| 23 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |