Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big challenge came from everybody 's favourite Ginny Leng … she was riding Welton Romance and after racing around the 28 fence course was just two penalty points down from the leader … less than once fault in the showjumping … |
| 2 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |
| 3 | Everyone claps a little and Peter sits down on the drum stool . |
| 4 | When I stick my head round the door and tell Rachel I have to go out again , she sits down on the bed without a word . |
| 5 | John sits down on the bed and recites a mantra under his breath . |
| 6 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's advertising . |
| 7 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ What you need is a good romance and it so happens I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's marketing . |
| 8 | A girl sits down with a man and she says , ‘ I hear you 're very romantic , please take me to dinner ’ — that 's Public Relations ! |
| 9 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 10 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 11 | Crilly sits down by the window and opens a gardening magazine . |
| 12 | Likeable , cordial , he sits down in a chair facing her husband and herself and proceeds to converse with them . |
| 13 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 14 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 15 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 16 | Firms would invite favoured clients or business associates down for a day at Sandwich , either as a reward for past favours rendered or in the hope that the goodwill created would lubricate some future deal . |
| 17 | Maybe she slows down in the cold . |
| 18 | They say time slows down in the barrel . |
| 19 | The descent to the south passes the relics of an abandoned lead mine and arrives at Clouds Gill to join the old mine road which goes down past the limekilns to The Street and the waiting car . |
| 20 | You know , the computer goes down for a hour , it 's three-quarters of the day to get everything back and validated , and that 's a major interruption . |
| 21 | Erm imaginary line that goes down through the middle of a ball , yes , through there Jupiter . |
| 22 | All that water that goes th that goes down through the machines is all sent back to top |
| 23 | And the prince goes down through the wood to another exit |
| 24 | You can see there 's been a wee bit of damage to that ligament just where it goes down over the top of that bone . |
| 25 | The path simply sheds water to either side ; but where a path which follows the contours goes down into a dip , you 'll have to ensure that ponding does n't occur , and it may be necessary to form a small land drain to lead the water away to a less waterlogged area . |
| 26 | Misumenops nepenthicola , a spider , lives there and captures flies ; if these are distasteful they are ( sometimes ) thrown back into the pitcher ; if disturbed , the spider goes down into the liquid on a thread , its armour and a bubble of air making it immune to the digestive juices there . |
| 27 | Your name goes down into the future as Mary Shelley . ’ |
| 28 | Er , she goes down with a friend . |
| 29 | John King makes a late shuffle after Neil McNab goes down with a stomach upset . |
| 30 | You know , Bill always goes down on a Tuesday |