Example sentences of "down [conj] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By Sunday night , Vicky realized Seth was n't planning to settle down and marry anytime soon . |
| 2 | Last month , Department of Justice lawyers said that US military personnel could track down and apprehend drug traffickers abroad . |
| 3 | He is not in any other big races , which are closed anyway , so we might as well let him down and stop work with him . |
| 4 | This swelling enlarges , becomes very painful , and , if untreated , will eventually break down and discharge pus . |
| 5 | Then we 'd sit down and eat air meals to practise handling silverware or practise ‘ seating the lady ’ . |
| 6 | I 'd have tuna fish , I 'd have ham , everything because you can eat as much meat you could sit down and eat cabbage , swedes , runner beans , cauliflower , peas every vegetable |
| 7 | The whole lot was to come down and make way for a million square feet of office space , and the company developing the site had held a competition to find a master-planner . |
| 8 | I am a sole practitioner and have been asked to stand down and make way as auditor of a limited company for a larger outfit , following a JMU visit . |
| 9 | Royal licences to quarry stones , or to cut down and sell timber in the woods of subjects , or to bring such woods into cultivation , or to pasture cattle therein , were frequently preceded by such an inquiry held by the Justice of the Forest or his deputy . |
| 10 | I know that a lot of blacks are just expecting things to come to them ; they 're sort of free living , it 's our nature to sit down and enjoy life . |
| 11 | It will settle down and reduce Chair , through you , that the , the , the national figure has been announced that the , for the future year , and it does recognize the fact that there is an assumption that the number of people who D S S continues to support directly will have fallen by thirty five percent by the end of this year , and there will be a further fall , and the amount that 's transferred is very much related to here 's the total available , how much does the D S S need to hold on to meet its commitments , and how much is left to distribute to the local authorities . |
| 12 | You really need to calm down and take life more stoically to reinforce your position . |
| 13 | The advice to drivers is to slow down and take heed of the warning signals . |
| 14 | And once the baby 's born everyone 's bound to calm down and take stock of things , realise what 's important in life . |
| 15 | It imposes statutory obligations on employers to set down and implement policy to safeguard the health and safety of their employees . |
| 16 | Would that I had the luxury of a museum director to track down and obtain credit for works by other artists that owe even superficial debts to my work . |
| 17 | Something I 'd never to do , so I had to settle down and get School Certificate , which I got with my matric exemption , and people from did . |
| 18 | My , I better go down and get cling film I suppose . |
| 19 | IF YOU DROP SOMETHING ON THE LINE , DO NOT JUMP DOWN AND GET IT . |
| 20 | The weapons bay is too small to accommodate much of a bomb : it is designed to take the AMRAAM , a new air-to-air missile that uses its own radar to hunt down and destroy enemy aircraft . |
| 21 | They expected the angels to come down and join battle with them — ‘ the sons of light ’ — against their enemies — ‘ the sons of darkness ’ — and to give them victory over all other peoples . |
| 22 | We 'll be going to London for a few days next month to find suitable premises , so I 'll be able to go down and see Mum and Dad and the children . |
| 23 | Late in the morning Valeria suggested we should all go down and have breakfast , and as we came down the staircase we saw to our horror that her mother was waiting for us at the bottom . |
| 24 | ‘ We can drive down and have lunch in Winchester and be back by dinner time . ’ |
| 25 | So , if you 'd like to come down and have conversation ? |
| 26 | I asked her if she would like to come down and have tea with us , but … . ’ |