Example sentences of "[vb infin] down and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman who farms land all year can make straw rope , pots and pitchforks in slack periods ; she can cook noodles for the local factory ; she grows her own cotton to stitch into winter padded jackets ; and — unlike most of her Western counterparts — can strip down and mend her bike . |
| 2 | She made Maggie kneel down and lean her head over the bathtub , just as she had when Maggie had to have her hair washed as a little child . |
| 3 | However , there is always the remote possibility that you might run down and injure someone in the water , which could cost you as much as £100,000 ! |
| 4 | If it spins out of control in the first half of the period , the batteries could run down and put it beyond recovery , says Alan Harris , a ROSAT physicist based in Munich . |
| 5 | If you could quickly scan down and see what somebody 's done and the levels of competency they 've achieved , it helps you think that why are n't they doing the job , it might not be a trainee , it might be somebody else . |
| 6 | Then she saw him crouch down and examine something . |
| 7 | I did n't know whether it would be but I thought , well you could go down and change it . |
| 8 | I 'll go down and show them tomorrow . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | We must go down and tell your mam , or she 'll never forgive us . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll go down and sort it out tomorrow , ’ the girl said with an attempt at eagerness . |
| 12 | Let's go down and watch it go out . |
| 13 | Well we could go down and watch it if you like . |
| 14 | Oh , well , come on ; let's go down and see what 's for dinner . |
| 15 | yes it 's Richard , wait a minute , lets go down and see what 's the matter with Ri , what 's the matter Richard ? |
| 16 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 17 | you see , he , he he can he cancelled cos his name came up and then he cancelled and he never heard anything and went a bit er we told him about Doreen , he said , oh I better go down and see what 's happened er he went down and then about three minutes later he got this erm card yes er , this week to say that come in , but , before you come in ring to see if there 's a bed . |
| 18 | Let's go down and see them move off " |
| 19 | I 've got ta go down and see them anyway . |
| 20 | ‘ If it would help , I 'll go down and see him . ’ |
| 21 | He left Ella asking Dolly if she should go down and get her mum . |
| 22 | And he said he 'd go down and get himself a sherry . ’ |
| 23 | " Let's go down and get it over , shall we ? " |
| 24 | Could you go down and catch me ? |
| 25 | See we er we tried to get and it was about ten to twelve so I thought , I thought Carole was n't coming till the next bus so I 'd go down and pick her up . |
| 26 | At 10.30 the men can stand down and do what they like — study , read , watch television — until midnight when , if all is quiet , they turn in . |
| 27 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 28 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 29 | Well I have made some notes since you j can I just walk down and get them I want this to happen I made some notes , here . |
| 30 | He had his time-proven tests for this : one was simply to walk over the land and to ‘ feel it through his boots ’ , ; then again he would take up a handful of soil , carefully crumbling it to test it ; or he would bend down and draw his fist backwards through the soil . |