Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , my other two other branches were the same , I 'm doing a free appointment at , I 'm at at the moment , we 're supposed to get a two-weekly , when you do a free appointment , they 're supposed to sit down with every two weeks and tell you how you 're doing . |
| 2 | Like a flan with potatoes and cheese in , mind you you 're supposed to cut down on the cheese |
| 3 | We 're all running down to the river like you said , they may not find us down there . |
| 4 | But the clash everyone was waiting for was the re-match of the Bass Irish cup final between the writers of Bangor 's A Close Shave and the two Ards fanzines We 're All Going Down To Davy Lee 's and The Butcher 's Apron . |
| 5 | and they 're all going down with their little cards in their hands as they |
| 6 | Course , I 'm sat in the office like this , and they 're all sitting down to their lovely fo five course meal and of course great ! |
| 7 | All of them were chasing the duck but they 've all they 've all decided to stop for the moment , they 're all sitting down on the grass . |
| 8 | . They 're all coming down off the bloody erm . |
| 9 | Wait till I 've cut it and we 're all sat down with a piece , and I 'll tell you a story . |
| 10 | Only specialist engineers are likely to go down to the level of AND gates and NOR gates , and only physicists will go down further , to the level of how electrons behave in a semiconducting medium . |
| 11 | These powers are to take immediate possession of all the debtor 's property but only to sell anything of a perishable nature or goods which are likely to go down in value if not sold ( s 287(2) ) . |
| 12 | They both looked up to see a short , wiry little man who had been table-hopping beaming down at them . |
| 13 | ‘ You are reluctant to go down to the hall , demoiselle ? |
| 14 | We are able to stand down for a while in the evening to get some sleep , write letters , play darts or watch TV . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Had Ross Brown been able to touch down on completion of his powerful break ( or Nick Penny been able to cleanly gather his pass ) off a Derrick Lee snipe after Scotland had levelled at 8-8 in the second half , then a steal might have materialised . |
| 20 | As he sipped his wine in the bright , busy square , he thought that although the language was certainly a problem and one that he would have to continue to struggle with , it only provided him with an excuse , really , an excuse for why he had not been able to get down to the job of looking for Elsie . |
| 21 | This is a fax I want you to send to Ian in Aiden Mouth and it reads as follows good afternoon Ian , at long last I 've been able to get down to this memo of yours , dated the thirtieth alt can you please let me know the actual deliveries ' figures in the first part of this memo . |
| 22 | ( On most types of training glider it will be possible to get down to the pre-stall buffet and continue with either a slight rocking of the wings or a very gentle inner wingdrop . ) |
| 23 | ‘ Looks like we 'll be eleven sitting down to dinner . ’ |
| 24 | They needed the worker to care about them , to be willing to sit down with them and help solve a problem and be a good listener . |
| 25 | ‘ There will obviously be some slimming down in certain areas , which is regrettable but necessary . ’ |
| 26 | Although the right had advocated foreign withdrawal they were well aware that the retention of some American troops was needed to prevent communist domination — ‘ Under Shtikov 's proposal , [ a ] strong Korean Communist Army in [ the ] North of Korea would be free to sweep down on the virtually unarmed south and quickly over-run it . ’ |
| 27 | Individual moral decision although capable of exemplification has , because of its circumstantial and often impulsive nature , been shown to be impossible to pin down for classification . |
| 28 | This suggests they will be hard to break down in Italy . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |