Example sentences of "down and [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rambler roses in the garden beyond grew along chains which dipped up and down and swung in the wind between six foot high posts , and a row of strangely shaped lumps of yew , grown hugely out of proportion , ran from the north corner of the house . |
| 2 | They issued in , among many other reforms , the Education Act of 1918 , introduced by Lloyd George 's Minister of Education , H. A. L. Fisher ( who was knocked down and killed in the black-out in April 1940 ) . |
| 3 | There were brown bears here as recently as the 10th century , and the last wolf was hunted down and killed in the 18th century . |
| 4 | You bent down and wrote in the sand |
| 5 | But in the autumn they come down and settle in the grazing pastures where we take the sheep in summer . |
| 6 | because I breed racehorses , I also am a farmer so I wear two hats , but I 've actually seen foxes sit down we move the hounds move in , si sit down and scratch in the middle of a field , and then they think ah ! |
| 7 | Shall I go down and eat in the hotel restaurant , or shall I go out ? |
| 8 | Most of my leaves drop down and fall in the borders |
| 9 | Soon the hated secret police were being hunted down and shot in the streets . |
| 10 | If these trailing stems are held down and secured in the planting medium , they root , and then the sections bearing the plantlets can be severed and transplanted . |
| 11 | The body has been cut down and lies in the gatehouse there . |
| 12 | It was n't as if I even wanted to sit down and write in the first place . |
| 13 | ‘ We might as well just lie down and call in the exorcists . ’ |
| 14 | It was once the most lavish Baroque building in the ghetto but was burnt down and rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style between 1883 and 1913 . |
| 15 | It was agreed that Cell-y-bedd should be taken down and rebuilt in the form of an apse on the foundations found in 1958 . |
| 16 | The disclosure of these plans forced a premature announcement that two plants — Cowley South and Llanelli Pressings — were to be run down and closed in the early 1990s with the loss of about 3,400 jobs . |
| 17 | The Special Needs Unit , attached to the College of Further Education , is actually decking their Special Needs Unit out as a rain forest , both before and after , so there 's the rainforest in all its glory , and then the rainforest after it 's been chopped down and destroyed in the next room , so the Special Needs Unit are really enjoying that . |
| 18 | So if the mover of composite eight would come down and standing in the of the Northern Region , to be seconded by Lancashire , but as we 're now formally seconding the er the , the formally seconders will not be required to come down to the front , but the movers will . |