Example sentences of "[verb] down [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down here in the absolute silence with my reflection , in a sort of state of mystery . |
| 2 | — Sit down again for a minute . |
| 3 | ‘ Sit down again for a while . ’ |
| 4 | When I switch on , I want you to go down the steps , sit down quietly on the floor by the end of the nozzle … and I want you to apologise . |
| 5 | WHEN 20 representatives of the South African Cricket Union and the National Sports Congress sit down together in a Johannesburg hotel tonight it is to be hoped that among them is someone with the wisdom of Solomon . |
| 6 | Then clutching his suitcase , he tottered down on to the platform . |
| 7 | He stood for a minute or so gazing down expressionlessly at the pale , bloodless face of the Prophet . |
| 8 | Am I going to sit down comfortably in a studio and be interviewed , or is this guy going to come to my office with a piece of equipment like that , which we will be using later , a ewer , or a Nigra whatever piece of portable equipment they have . |
| 9 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 10 | If it 's appropriate for him to sit down there with the project manager , then we have n't got a problem . |
| 11 | Now one of the most important things that we 've established erm is that er you need to sit down still with the secretary of the club and say right now you 've got this list of businesses tell me more about them . |
| 12 | Darren , 21 , said : ‘ The smoke was very dense , so I got down low on the floor and pushed the kitchen door open . |
| 13 | Calvin takes a look at Jerry , mumbles something inaudible and sits down heavily on the step with his back to all of us . |
| 14 | The red-haired baby with the bright blue eyes heaves himself up to a standing position , staggers , then sits down abruptly with a look of mild surprise . |
| 15 | He swooped down on to the grass and took stance by it . |
| 16 | The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) . |
| 17 | The big truck shuddered to a halt , spraying gravel from under its locked wheels , as Rocky tramped down hard on the brakes . |
| 18 | The statues came tumbling down all over the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | At the moment he 'd still have time to drive down on to the autobahn — providing the freezing fog came no closer . |
| 20 | Er other thing , and they lived down there opposite the garage , that was the electricity board house then . |
| 21 | Passengers poked their heads out of the doors like rabbits testing the wind and , deciding it was safe , hopped down on to the station platform where a sign read : " Cook , Queen of the Nullarbor . |
| 22 | In any case , sparks were riding the breeze and touching down far across the river in hidden gardens and remote rickyards . |
| 23 | A cowboy was out on the range when he came across an Indian with his ear pressed down hard against the trail . |
| 24 | When pressed down half-way , at which point it can be caught in a notch , the note is raised a semitone ; when pressed down farther to the second notch the note is raised another semitone . |
| 25 | He speaks English in a curious way , that improbable Dutch-accent tongue slapping down hard on the vowels , like shoe leather on a dry pavement . |
| 26 | He heard a gasp from the crowd of people gathered below , he seemed to hang forever in mid-air and then , miraculously , he was crashing down on to the opposite roof . |
| 27 | Several weeks ago Victor came crashing down out of a tree and on to his back . |
| 28 | Each criterion is broken down further into a number of different categories with varied weighted values . |
| 29 | Unit costs may be broken down further into the amount spent on teachers , books and equipment , ancillary staff , transport , and so on . |
| 30 | As the train slows down considerably on the bend , look out beyond the Castoff Carpet Centre ( formerly Watley Baptist Chapel ) over the spire of Saint Greavsies and you may be able to spot the rusty corrugated sheeting , glistening muddily in the sunlight , that makes up the ground 's perimeter fencing . |