Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 2 | The big challenge came from everybody 's favourite Ginny Leng … she was riding Welton Romance and after racing around the 28 fence course was just two penalty points down from the leader … less than once fault in the showjumping … |
| 3 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |
| 4 | Everyone claps a little and Peter sits down on the drum stool . |
| 5 | When I stick my head round the door and tell Rachel I have to go out again , she sits down on the bed without a word . |
| 6 | John sits down on the bed and recites a mantra under his breath . |
| 7 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's advertising . |
| 8 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ What you need is a good romance and it so happens I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's marketing . |
| 9 | A girl sits down with a man and she says , ‘ I hear you 're very romantic , please take me to dinner ’ — that 's Public Relations ! |
| 10 | And so quickly he makes his way to the gate of the city as we 've said , and he gets this man he sits down with the te with the te , with the ten elders who would be witnesses and the kinsman arrives . |
| 11 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 12 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 13 | Crilly sits down by the window and opens a gardening magazine . |
| 14 | Likeable , cordial , he sits down in a chair facing her husband and herself and proceeds to converse with them . |
| 15 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 16 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 17 | The energy spectrum of atmospheric turbulence persists down to the smallest scales , and to trap the maximum amount of energy the valves must be as small and numerous as possible , The payload of Daedalus 's new craft will be conventionally suspended from cords around its rim . |
| 18 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 19 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 20 | Firms would invite favoured clients or business associates down for a day at Sandwich , either as a reward for past favours rendered or in the hope that the goodwill created would lubricate some future deal . |
| 21 | If an employee trades down to a cheaper model and sacrifices less salary , no output tax liability arises . |
| 22 | They say time slows down in the barrel . |
| 23 | Maybe she slows down in the cold . |
| 24 | The descent to the south passes the relics of an abandoned lead mine and arrives at Clouds Gill to join the old mine road which goes down past the limekilns to The Street and the waiting car . |
| 25 | You know , the computer goes down for a hour , it 's three-quarters of the day to get everything back and validated , and that 's a major interruption . |
| 26 | Trident sub goes down for the first time |
| 27 | And the prince goes down through the wood to another exit |
| 28 | All that water that goes th that goes down through the machines is all sent back to top |
| 29 | Erm imaginary line that goes down through the middle of a ball , yes , through there Jupiter . |
| 30 | You can see there 's been a wee bit of damage to that ligament just where it goes down over the top of that bone . |