Example sentences of "down and [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally he got so used to me calling that he asked me to come down and give them a hand fixing it up . |
| 2 | Money never conspired between them , between , they just all would come down and give you a hand and that was it . |
| 3 | so I said right I 'll come down and give you a you a hand with it and it was the re-dedication or re-commissioning of a ship |
| 4 | You 're gon na sit down and do them now . |
| 5 | If you want that done , you 'll have to come down and do it yourself . |
| 6 | I was roused from my room with a call from the Cambridge police , Stewart had been arrested for disorderly conduct and was demanding that his skipper should come down and bail him out . |
| 7 | We 'll probably take this on paper , so the reason it 's on the agenda is to tell you as a department that we 've had this sent to us , erm we 've got a meeting later this week to actually sit down and analyse it and to put something on paper to send up to command . |
| 8 | I did n't do a self-evaluation — an evaluation of myself — for the simple reason that we really did n't have time to sit down and think it out , and its a bit difficult doing it objectively … because you have no standard to compare . |
| 9 | Now all she wanted was for him to go , so she could sit down and think it over . |
| 10 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 11 | I 'll go down and show them tomorrow . |
| 12 | And er , I 'll come down and show them if they like . |
| 13 | I was going in I was gon na ask somebody to come down and show us how to light the boiler . |
| 14 | Well there 's certain parts that just the basic , like you could , I could go down and show you , but there 's others parts it takes a lot of years |
| 15 | And , of course , if the ferret is half-starved its first and understandable reaction on encountering a rabbit in a burrow is to kill immediately and then to settle down and eat it . |
| 16 | There were no good rules and regulations , and hospitals and insurance companies felt that they ought not to sit down and make them because , once they made them , they were admitting that these things were taking place and that such decisions were being made and were subject not only to public scrutiny but a threat of medical malpractice suits . |
| 17 | Cos they will just say , they 'll just sit down and make it . |
| 18 | And those horrible white things floating up there , just waiting to fall down and smother us . |
| 19 | Like there was this girl , she worked in the paper shop down the road , and there was this black kid who kept pestering her all the time , so we had to go down and sort him out . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll go down and sort it out tomorrow , ’ the girl said with an attempt at eagerness . |
| 21 | Erm and you might want to do that formally , you might a if you have pre-meetings with some of these people you might want to say that you are going to sit down and talk it through with me in advance ar and are they happy about that ? |
| 22 | Her father called twice for her to come down and answer it , but Ellie pretended not to hear . |
| 23 | " Well , then , you may sit down and watch me . " |
| 24 | Is to know it all and can sit down and watch you two |
| 25 | Let's go down and watch it go out . |
| 26 | Well we could go down and watch it if you like . |
| 27 | On her arrival , you invite her to sit down and offer her a cup of tea or coffee , which will have a calming effect , and then , as gently as possible , you break the news , and offer every possible assistance for any arrangements she may have to make . |
| 28 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 29 | ‘ Why do n't you just sit down and tell me the whole story from the beginning . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You 'd better sit down and tell me what you want me to do . ’ |