Example sentences of "down and [verb] in " 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 | But there were some good memories , particularly of one Polish vessel after we had rescued their lifeboat , broken down and drifting in adverse weather in the outer reaches of the lock with the mate and several crewmen on board . |
| 3 | Then she said , I 've arranged now if you would like to go down and speak in er a meeting in Oxford . |
| 4 | If you go down and ask in a polite way , then you might get what you want . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | There were brown bears here as recently as the 10th century , and the last wolf was hunted down and killed in the 18th century . |
| 7 | P.J.A. Thompson of 261 Squadron was shot down and killed in V7115 . |
| 8 | Bardsley put his teacup down and said in a melancholy voice , ‘ I was thinking of taking him into partnership , but business has n't been that good lately . |
| 9 | I put the phone down and slumped in a chair . |
| 10 | She and Edward would be alone on Grace , and they could batten down and stay in bed for twenty-four hours if they felt like it . |
| 11 | You bent down and wrote in the sand |
| 12 | But in the autumn they come down and settle in the grazing pastures where we take the sheep in summer . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | Shall I go down and eat in the hotel restaurant , or shall I go out ? |
| 15 | What hitherto had been integrated plants in countries like the UK , carrying out complete manufacturing processes , are closed down and rationalized in order to manufacture products more cheaply from parts manufactured by workers divided between a number of countries . |
| 16 | Most of my leaves drop down and fall in the borders |
| 17 | Soon the hated secret police were being hunted down and shot in the streets . |
| 18 | At the top of the cellar steps Broadman knelt down and fumbled in his tinderbox . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The body has been cut down and lies in the gatehouse there . |
| 21 | It was n't as if I even wanted to sit down and write in the first place . |
| 22 | Mr you see various people are giving evidence , and Mr wants to ask the right person , certain questions , namely the person who er devised those words and er you are er somebody in a very important position er and er he 's trying to get it from you , and as he 's pointed out to you a company ca n't sit down and produce in some corporate way a phrase someone or two human beings or more have got to do it and he wants to know if you can help us er who , who that was , that 's , that 's all you see , he does n't want to ask you about it , no doubt er , er in the same way as he 'd want to ask a person that actually devised a word , d' ya see ? |
| 23 | Come down and snooze in a garden when I am a dragon , an ocean-lurking , sky-flying free dragon ; when the mother wind that keeps the world spinning caresses my scales as I fly across the moon and bring warnings and hopes to the fiery heart of the world ; when I can dance aloft at dawn , so that the rising sun turns my every scale to a pure diamond and the tides and rhythms of the oceans slow down in delight . |
| 24 | ‘ We might as well just lie down and call in the exorcists . ’ |
| 25 | That brass ring at her neck , attached to the zip all the way down that dress , like the ring you hold on to when you leap from a plane , plunging in free fall till you dare no more , then you pull the ring down , down and float in airy freedom , master of all you survey . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Nutty wound the window down and smiled in a civilized fashion . |
| 29 | It would also be easy to take down and stow in stormy weather . |
| 30 | Frozen solid in winter , they warm quickly in spring sunshine and may reach temperatures of 15–16°C by high summer , but are the first to slow down and freeze in autumn . |