Example sentences of "able [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you have understood the gist of this and talked to your inner teacher about what you need as an individual , you will be able to sit down with paper and write your own script . |
| 2 | Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready . |
| 3 | Ian , 49 , told friends : ‘ It may sound sloppy but the two of us will be able to sit down at home and have a jolly good cuddle listening to this . ’ |
| 4 | Winsor & and ; Newton will be creating six ‘ mini studios ’ , each one dedicated to a different medium , where you will be able to sit down for 20 minutes and try out the materials whilst getting expert tuition in a small group . |
| 5 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 6 | Winsor & and ; Newton will be creating six ‘ mini studios ’ , each one dedicated to a different medium , where you will be able to sit down for 20 minutes and try out the materials whilst getting expert tuition in a small group . |
| 7 | That I may be able to go down into the Saxon crypt of a cathedral , a tiny , exquisitely rude little chapel , where a thousand years ago my forefathers knelt in prayer , is a draught of pure oxygen . |
| 8 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |
| 9 | And er then er these two erm er Then when we used to when we was the young you used to be able to go down to Skeggie for a day on train for two and six . |
| 10 | From there she 'd be able to go down to the lakeside if she chose , or else pick up one of the shore paths that would take her further into the valley . |
| 11 | The size of the device — which Faris expects to be able to scale down to 0.1 micrometres across — makes it suitable for use in very and ultra-large scale integrated circuits . |
| 12 | We are able to stand down for a while in the evening to get some sleep , write letters , play darts or watch TV . |
| 13 | Or Sally maybe would be able to come down with you Saturday and help you ? |
| 14 | It may go on after half term because she may not be able to come down on those two days , if that happens then I 'll have other back up material for them |
| 15 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
| 16 | Students have to show that they understand what has been learned so deeply that they are able to look down on it and assess it critically for themselves . |
| 17 | By then some of the hurt had lessened and he was able to look down at her scrawly handwriting and think : so she made it . |
| 18 | By first establishing a formal highpoint , the critics are then able to look down upon the content , ‘ objectively ’ pointing out the division which they claim exists ( which in fact they have helped to construct ) between the two . |
| 19 | There was never any doubt in his mind that they would or could do so , and indeed he heard their shouts and as the next wave lifted him was able to look down upon them and see that they were luffing to the wind and preparing to beat back towards him . |
| 20 | He decided to invade England and landed his troops at Hastings on the south coast , and had established a good bridgehead before the news reached Harold and he was able to journey down from Yorkshire . |
| 21 | According to an auction house representative the latter is the more likely outcome , because he doubts whether some countries , for example Italy , will be able to clamp down on smuggling . |
| 22 | Had they been able to put down for a minute our in-depth features on Geraldo , Victor Sylvester and some accordions , they might have seen something half-decent on the box . |
| 23 | With that comparatively primitive system we were able to fly down to a height of 200 feet above the runway . |
| 24 | A little bit more , just a little bit , and surely she would be able to hang down over the edge and drop gently into the water below . |
| 25 | He would never be able to settle down to married life like a suburban husband . |
| 26 | Charles would never be able to settle down to married life like a suburban husband . |
| 27 | With these five factors examined and the results of preliminary thinking kept in mind , the teacher or the planning team will be able to settle down to detailed planning of the specific learning sequence in question , whether it is a short piece of structured work with a work-sheet , tape-slide sequence or programmed unit , or whether it occupies several weeks of varied work . |
| 28 | What I would n't give , I thought , to be able to lie down on that bed , just for a minute . |
| 29 | He did n't have much time in his lodgings on the outskirts of the town , but when he was there he was able to lie down in his quiet , quiet room and totally relax . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've knitted you a tracksuit , dear — now you 'll be able to jog down to the shop when I need more yarn . ’ |