Example sentences of "down and [verb] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lay them down and raise their legs |
| 2 | Shelley sipped her coffee , then put the mug down and swung her legs on to the cool tiled floor . |
| 3 | The man stayed on the other side , bent down and locked his hands behind her . |
| 4 | He knelt down and got his fingers into a crack in the floorboards . |
| 5 | While the Romans were dusting themselves down and rearranging their feathers and mini-skirts , the lurking Brits emerged from the woods and advanced in a rabble brandishing their rolling pins . |
| 6 | And he came in and sat down and put his elbows on the edge of his tray and it all went whack over his blazer and it all slid down onto his trousers . |
| 7 | ‘ He moves by putting his fists down and dragging his legs behind him . |
| 8 | Secondly , he must make sure Hirst knuckles down and gets his feet back on the ground . |
| 9 | You can get down and wash your hands . |
| 10 | These young teenagers all millions of them all in this group that came down and took their bras and oh |
| 11 | She knelt down and took his hands . |
| 12 | They came down and took our suitcases into the house . |
| 13 | Mavis laid her knitting aside and came over to the bed , where , to my redoubled annoyance , she sat down and took my hands . |
| 14 | From beneath the low rain gutters two floodlights blaze down and blind my eyes . |
| 15 | The report has warned the government to prepare for the " wholesale contamination " which is likely to ensue as legions of small-scale operators shut down and abandon their plants . |
| 16 | Jackson Chatterton stirred as though he proposed to clean up the mess himself , but I waved him down and kept my eyes on Rickie . |
| 17 | I must also come in when I am told and sit down and eat my meals properly and not run out into the street with a slice of bread in my hand . |
| 18 | The travellers paid eighteen thousand pounds for the site and had hoped to settle down and send their children to local schools . |
| 19 | Back once more in the capital after an uneventful overland journey , Gould took a rare moment to sit down and recount his adventures to the expectant household in Broad Street . |
| 20 | Then that night , just before the offensive was due to start , they would slip down and place their bombs on the parked enemy aircraft . |
| 21 | He put the axe down and wiped his hands on his trousers , eyeing me . |
| 22 | Steve had gone back to school , where he kept his head down and avoided his enemies ; he felt as if the whole school was his enemy . |
| 23 | God — sniff — he dashed down and burnt his fingers yanking the smoking toast from under the grill . |
| 24 | So it 's trying to get this tied down and get its limits clearly defined so you know what you 're talking you know exactly |
| 25 | Well get down and get your jarmies on and then you can get back up there otherwise , if we do n't get them on , and when daddy 's ready to go you 're not going to have time to go and see your other nanny |
| 26 | And Fridays and Saturday clearly a time when they get their heads down and write their essays . |
| 27 | I mean someone who would just sit down and tell you things , as if they had just happened on the way home . |
| 28 | She looked down and shuffled her feet inanely . |
| 29 | He looked down and shuffled his feet . |
| 30 | Try to sober down and forget your fears as there are calmer days ahead . |