Example sentences of "[vb base] down on my " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get on with it most of the afternoon , and I 've still got a stack of unopened buff envelopes in my hand as I head doggedly back up the little twisting staircase and sit down on my hard box seat to get on with it again up here , a task which now looks likely to keep me here after everyone else has gone home . |
| 2 | ‘ Once Stalin made me dance the Gopak , squat down on my haunches and kick out my heels , ’ writes Khrushchev , an image hard to call up in view of his shape , but — ‘ When Stalin says ‘ Dance ’ , a wise man dances , ’ added the peasant proverb-spinner in his accustomed vein . |
| 3 | I lie down on my bed and remove my socks before looking at the folder . |
| 4 | Books on Buddhism line the walls and , when I lie down on my futon , I am covered with an ethnic rug of indeterminate origins . |
| 5 | ‘ I get down on my knees every day and pray that this election may help change things . |
| 6 | ‘ What do you want me to do , ’ Vitor demanded , ‘ get down on my knees and beg ? ’ |
| 7 | No , write down on my boating one ! |
| 8 | Slowly the pressures of its differences bore down on my thinking and decisions , prying open my defences and forcing me to face questions I had not been conscious of before . |