Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] [art] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , just sit down for a minute and let's , Michael read his first . |
| 2 | You either sit down for a meal or get ready for bed and the phone goes . ’ |
| 3 | The temptation and the suspense novel , a book in which a high degree of identification both from intellectual curiosity and emotional involvement is necessary for the writer as much as the reader , is to catch hold of some intriguing initial situation , sit down at the typewriter and go racing ahead from there . |
| 4 | Right , sit down on the bed and give me your legs . ’ |
| 5 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 6 | She sit down on the chair but she 'll want to stand up a little bit cause we got bins underneath and she wants to put her feet on the bins |
| 7 | Sit down with a pen and paper and make a list of the things you have wanted to do in the past few years . |
| 8 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 9 | So you sit down with The Hook and ask him about what it was like in the '60s in London , when he was lionised by Van Morrison , The Animals , Peter Green and all the gut-bucket R&B bands , but he just laughs and says it was fun . |
| 10 | I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal . |
| 11 | ‘ Sit down by the fire and tell me all about it . ’ |
| 12 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 13 | We drank the tea squatting in the shade , gazing down over the desert and the river valley . |
| 14 | They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner . |
| 15 | Well done , excellent , erm , as you can see , in some ways quite a complex er , issue , and it 's one of those things really , I think to fully understand this , you got to sit down with a pencil and paper and work it through yourself . |
| 16 | But Croat and Slovene leaders have reiterated their willingness to sit down with the Serbs and others to work out how Yugoslavia could be turned into a body not unlike the European Community . |
| 17 | It 'll all be all right when the Vice President goes to Riyadh to sit down with the Iranians and they find out that our hostages come home , and the Ayatollah is either helping us in Central America or the contras . |
| 18 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 19 | Despite the growth of the disabled people 's movement these paper professionals still think it quite normal to sit down round the table and decide what 's best for us . |
| 20 | Her initial action on reaching her room , however , was to sit down by the telephone and to try and concentrate her attention on what she should do now . |
| 21 | He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house . |
| 22 | And do n't get so drunk that you ca n't stand up and have to sit down in the middle or , worse still , can not speak at all . |
| 23 | Some geezer got down into the tunnels and found his way out . ’ |
| 24 | She got down on the floor and ran her arm under the bookcase . |
| 25 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 26 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 27 | He got down from the wall and walked on . |
| 28 | In Bawiti , the main village of the oasis , Salah got down from the bus and waved us after him . |
| 29 | ‘ Christ , Piper , that 's all we need , the bloody Navy ! ’ burst out Taff as two sailors got down from the jeep and started to unload their gear . |
| 30 | He got down from the jeep and walked into the villa , his shirt crumpled , and his footsteps weary . |