Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And again and again : ‘ We 'd rather sit down in front of the TV , or get a video . ’ |
| 2 | yeah , I 'd rather put down for acceptability of work pattern . |
| 3 | Larry Lonik , author of ‘ The Curious Morel ’ , tells the tale of a man in Williamsburg who knew a special spot : ‘ People would try to follow him , but he 'd just sit down under a tree and wait them out . |
| 4 | Wednesday , I 'd got Michael outside in the pushchair , coat on and I think I 'd just come down from the loo and I saw the car pull up I quickly ran and got me coat on oh I , I 'll come with you she said , so she come shopping with me . |
| 5 | ‘ And , even if I did n't , for you , signorina , I 'd immediately send down to the cellar to get it . ’ |
| 6 | Well she always used to say , why you do n't say anything , but she always used to say to , she 'd never come down to the house , I mean I do n't think she 's been to my house , house five times |
| 7 | He 'd occasionally pop down to the dungeon just to say , ‘ Aujourd'hui , c'est Vendredi , Mars quatorze , mille neuf cent quatre vingt et neuf ans . ’ |
| 8 | So , to extend Israel 's result to include rotating bodies , it was conjectured that any rotating body that collapsed to form a black hole would eventually settle down to a stationary state described by the Kerr solution . |
| 9 | If you took a living body and cut it up into ever smaller pieces , you would eventually come down to specks of pure protoplasm . |
| 10 | A soprano would only go down to about erm oh about what ? |
| 11 | Lancashire Region to second and colleagues if , if all the other movers and seconders and the C E C speaker would all come down to the front it would help us enormously with time Yorkshire Region to move . |
| 12 | Well if we put the money into sets , lots of ten and the people into lots of ten we could cancel those tens out and it would just come down to five over fifteen . |
| 13 | Had n't believed that they would just get down on their knees and die , heads bowed . |
| 14 | It would not go down past her hips , and stuck in a thick roll around her waist . |
| 15 | She would not go down for the fireworks . |
| 16 | He was being told in no uncertain terms that he could come out of all this as the loving , caring father who would do anything to keep his daughter 's reputation ; who welcomed her choice of husband with open arms ; who would not bow down in the face of adversity , but would rise up and conquer it . |
| 17 | Labour 's defeat led Neil Kinnock on April 13 to announce that he would resign as party leader as soon as practicable ; Roy Hattersley would also stand down as deputy leader . |
| 18 | He would often go down to the Hare and Hounds at the west end of Hury — it 's gone now of course — but he was a grand man and his scarum ways did not alter my affection for him one bit . |
| 19 | But at the end of all I sigh and think if I could but see old England again , and the dear , dear treasures it contains , I would contentedly sit down at my working table and stroke , stroke away to the end of the chapter , that is health permitting . ’ |
| 20 | The boy 's father , Gavin Lodge , said : If I could get hold of these idiots they would n't sit down for a week . ’ |
| 21 | Well I certainly would n't sit down at Christmas dinner with them that 's why |
| 22 | Eventually , after about a week , her little head would pop up over the hill and watch me put out her food as I whistled , but she would n't come down for it until she felt the coast was clear . |
| 23 | Diane locked herself in her bedroom and would n't come down for a day because she was afraid of her father 's anger . |
| 24 | would n't knock he would n't come down at all and then the everywhere else were knock some off if the market 's not very good at the moment . |
| 25 | Think of this craft as an art form — if you had painted a really good watercolour you would n't nip down to your local chainstore and buy a very basic and somewhat unattractive frame for your work of art . |
| 26 | credulous old burgher of Windsor in Mr Pickwick 's tale contributed to Master Humphrey 's Clock , pompous and slow-witted , ‘ one of those people who , being plunged into the Thames , would make no vain efforts to set it afire , but would straightway flop down to the bottom with a deal of gravity , and be highly respected in consequence by all good men ’ . |
| 27 | I know he would regularly come down to Low Birk Hatt — and , indeed , Sleetburn when we were there — with his violin , and Mother used to accompany him on our organ . |
| 28 | After six months you would only get half your salary so this would then go down to fifteen thousand . |
| 29 | And even if it were possible , making debtors pay 50p to prove that they had paid off their debts seems rather harshly discouraging for them — it would virtually boil down to imposing a line on them not because they had been debtors but because they had now paid their debts in full . |
| 30 | ‘ when they lived in Little Russell Street , in Bloomsbury , Mrs Livesey would sometimes come down to tea with my wife . ’ |