Example sentences of "down and [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he swooped down and landed on a road near Varadero Beach , right in the middle of evening rush-hour traffic . |
| 2 | Don Mini gave a signal and in five seconds Swan swooped down and landed on the tree . |
| 3 | Well , no the other day he said if I 'm really that bad you just tell me and I 'll go down and sleep on the sofa . |
| 4 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 5 | The coffin had been fastened down and lay on trestles , honey-coloured in the slanting light , awaiting its removal . |
| 6 | A driver has been remanded on bail after three women from the same family were knocked down and killed on their way home from a funeral . |
| 7 | Margaret Stanhope put down the telephone , stood up , smoothed her tight skirt down and knocked on the door next to her desk . |
| 8 | Yes , I do n't like to go down and knock on the door really . |
| 9 | Nails pulled furiously on the last of his cigarette , threw it down and stamped on it . |
| 10 | Pigs often lie down and chew on nothing ; they may consume their food in ten minutes during the day . |
| 11 | I put the pole down and clambered on hands and knees round the barge , looking for the hole . |
| 12 | The kids from the houses up there- ’ she waved her arm in the direction of home — ‘ will come and play on the grass-the old people from the council place will come pottering down and sit on the benches by the flowerbeds . |
| 13 | It 'll be nice when these are grown up and you can sit back down and wait on you |
| 14 | After driving some distance Angel stopped the carriage to get down and continue on foot . |
| 15 | Lead words , if you want to sit down and , in , in general you see er , you want to just sit down and think about what you 're doing and what you 're not doing , you can sit down and exercise on these words , now I 'm not saying you 'd ever want to do that , right now if , now you know I was saying to you about comparative questions right |
| 16 | Eventually we slowed down and stopped on Troutsdale Ward , a homely wing with about a dozen dear old ladies variously ambling around , or dozing in armchairs . |
| 17 | She stopped part way down and crouched on one of the treads , from which vantage point she was able to peer through the rails of the bannister and see directly into the sitting room . |
| 18 | She 's like , she 's like tearing the wall down and collapsing on the floor with hysterics . |
| 19 | Assuming that no mature way can be found to speak from the workers ' culture or meaning system , as opposed to breaking it down and imposing on it other meaning systems such as that espoused by management , then passive individuals will be fostered . |
| 20 | They hailed down and clinked on the ramparts . |
| 21 | You must then perform a small conjuring trick — holding all the layers of the picture firmly together , turn the frame and picture upside down and place on the table , then fix on the hardboard back . |
| 22 | I stepped down and sat on the thwart opposite to him . |
| 23 | Folly put the phone down and sat on the bed , looking round the poky little hotel room that was all she could afford while she searched for more permanent accommodation . |
| 24 | There 's er this other one here with a I carried a fish box out onto the wire and set it down and sat on it . |
| 25 | He pushed his mobile tray away from him , mumbled non-committally , lay down and turned on his right side , determined not to be trapped again . |
| 26 | Once he broke down and cried on the radio . |
| 27 | We also know that ‘ the iron-willed Admiral ’ broke down and cried on hearing that Balboa 's ocean had at last been sighted . |
| 28 | Fall down and right , go up and collect the star , fly up two platforms and right , push the crate onto the switch , go left and fall down , fall through the left side of the cave floor you land in , go right on the ride and collect the arrow , go left on the ride and up on the platforms , go right on the platforms in the cave above , push the crate right onto the switch , go right , down and left on the dodgems , jump up onto the platforms , then onto the wall above , go right through the wall and collect the star so you can fly , fly left , up , go right and collect the arrow . |
| 29 | Poor little Willie was fairly screaming the place down and banging on the barred window that separated him so carefully from the world . |
| 30 | But I always had books to read and pictures to paint and it was lovely in the summer when those theatrical people from London came down and put on all those Shakespearian plays out-of-doors on the cliffs . |