Example sentences of "down and [verb] they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knelt down and rolled them up Bella 's legs and over her swollen knees . |
| 2 | You 're gon na sit down and do them now . |
| 3 | Like the diligent ‘ style ’ journalist he is , Cohn notes them all down and offers them up for our delight . |
| 4 | Everybody had to work , and them show people could take a er big machine down and put them up . |
| 5 | Vivienne would pick them up and say , it 's alright I 'll just wash them down and put them back on the rack . |
| 6 | I 'll go down and show them tomorrow . |
| 7 | In Britain booming domestic sales of videocassette machines have brought the prices down and made them more attractive to institutions . |
| 8 | A The surest away of getting rid of them is to cut them down and dig them out . |
| 9 | Write these down and get them properly agreed with your boss . |
| 10 | He did not attempt the removal of the pyjama jacket , but suddenly stood up and began to pull the red trousers down and get them off ; and it seemed that Patrick , shifting very slightly , assisted the operation , his eyes now moving in awareness of what Marcus was doing . |
| 11 | ‘ Forty of them would have voted against her if the Lord God Almighty had come down and instructed them not to ’ said one minister . |
| 12 | Eliot 's presents were laid out on the table , and there was champagne and a birthday cake : when Rupert Hart-Davis lit the candles on the cake , Eliot knelt down and blew them out . |
| 13 | Many humbler folk , with fascinating ideas and personal stories to tell if they only dared to sit down and write them out , will be grateful for its tireless and patient tuition . |
| 14 | As she went into the kitchen it seemed to be alarmingly full of people and commotion , though when she sat down and worked them out it was only Clare , Bryony , Sue and the kids , and a strange man in a duffle coat . |
| 15 | I could still have easily called in if I 'd wanted to but I saw something advertised in a village saw the board took the number down and phoned them up . |
| 16 | ‘ They 're certainly tearing things down and putting them up at the moment . |
| 17 | I 've got ta go down and see them anyway . |
| 18 | The idea is that , if you pick out the best bits from the past , combine them , mix and match them , dust them down and restore them fondly , then the result will be something better . |
| 19 | Horses rearing and neighing , as ostlers and stable-boys tried to calm them down and lead them away . |
| 20 | So can you measure those , write hem down and add them up . |
| 21 | Robbie says : ‘ Any problems we do have , we sit down and sort them out straight away because we 're in each others pockets all day and every day and it would n't do to fall out badly . ’ |