Example sentences of "have [verb] down on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Danny has to go down on the floor , put his hands on hips and go , evening all ! |
| 2 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 3 | This remedy may come up after a Belladonna sore throat has gone down on the chest . |
| 4 | Erm but I say there , there were a couple of erm objections that came up during the course of the conversation which really resulted because you , you 'd fallen down on the actual structure , but having said that then again there were two or three examples that you apacked and you got through very well and you , you recovered yourself well on that and , and I say really I think that 's er that 's covered most of the bits that , that I felt were , were there . |
| 5 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 6 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 7 | Her thoughts were still so full of Mo : she thought that if she tried to say anything , she would have to lie down on the bed and howl . |
| 8 | ‘ Or you could have kept down on the platform , ’ Ace added . |
| 9 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 10 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
| 11 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 12 | Production day supervisor Bob Hodson illustrated the point : ‘ ICI phoned earlier to say the tanker with the morning delivery of phenol had broken down on the motorway and would n't be here until four o'clock . |
| 13 | She had detoured through the town 's central square on the way home and had sat down on a bench , raising her head to the trees . |
| 14 | One or two of the demonstrating ladies had sat down on the pavement ( they should never have shown Gandhi on TV ) and were singing ‘ the one with the waggerly tail … ’ with gusto . |
| 15 | If a bird had looked down on the quarry in the next few seconds it would have been amazed . |
| 16 | Now there was some dispute over whether Berlin or Bonn should be the capital , they 've come down on the side of Berlin , but is that dispute settled now ? |
| 17 | This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again . |
| 18 | Her hand had come down on the spider and it had bitten her . |
| 19 | During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet . |
| 20 | Fine views can be had looking down on the north side of the island to Porto da Cruz and the Penha d'Aguia ( the enormous flat-topped rock ) which stands between Faial and Porto da Cruz . |
| 21 | She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her . |
| 22 | He had settled down on the settee , watching her every move as she 'd put the kettle on and taken salad and cold meat from the fridge . |
| 23 | She was not proud to have been the cause of splitting her family up ; nor could she forget how her father 's love had turned to disgust ; and how could she easily reveal the shame which she had brought down on the Wards ? |
| 24 | Hammond moved from the doorway , picking up the map Kim had set down on the table . |
| 25 | Well , in actual fact we 've cut down on the boxing bit |
| 26 | White as any linen , she had sunk down on a rock . |
| 27 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , the minister responsible for home affairs in Scotland , confirmed that the Government had backed down on a proposal to abolish a contributory band for those applicants seeking advice and assistance . |
| 28 | So you 're doing exactly what we were telling you to do a few weeks ago , that you had to er take money out of reserves or you had to cut down on the level of services if you were to avoid putting that thirty four pounds on the council tax bills this year . |
| 29 | Welsh Water has dragged many old-age pensioners and under-privileged people through the courts of Wales because they have fallen down on the odd instalment on their water charges . |
| 30 | But we had to choose , early on , which side we belonged to , and children have to come down on the side that brings the food home and gets it on the table . |