Example sentences of "down [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheriff George Crozier accused the lawyer of shouting him down during a trial at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court . |
| 2 | Oxford Crown Court has jailed two men after hearing how drug squad detectives tracked them down during a trip to London . |
| 3 | In fact , when the spire was blown down during a gale , early in 1925 , it was not replaced . |
| 4 | For both reasons , the amount of looking at the listener should go down during a phase of speech production which involves a large amount of cognitive planning . |
| 5 | And in some class rooms the kids are gon na go down for a variety of reasons , they 're gon na they 're gon na work their ticket and in other class rooms they wo n't ! |
| 6 | The following techniques are outlawed under s3 : restricting the right to bid to more than one article ; goods being knocked down for a price less than the highest bid ; or where there are " free " gifts . |
| 7 | She looks real comfy there and I think about sitting down for a bit and watching telly , but I ai n't got nothing to sit on so I just carry on standing up . |
| 8 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 9 | I 'd like to stay lying down for a bit to make my headache go away , but I made a puddle on the pavement and I got to move . |
| 10 | We just go down for a bit of practice a few nights before . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Boom , Boom , ’ says the boogieman , as he coolly shoots his lady down , rams her into his car , steers off to his house , gets a bang out of watching her walking the floor , and then settles down for a bit of baby talk . |
| 12 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 13 | A close-up crotch shot will eventually do little more than remind the reader that sex without affection is merely moving your legs up and down for a bit and then stopping . |
| 14 | " Why do n't you pop upstairs and lie down for a bit ? |
| 15 | Then they all settle down for a bit and design some mountains . |
| 16 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |
| 17 | Here — ’ he shoved some gear off the wooden slats of the cockpit , ‘ sit down for a bit . ’ |
| 18 | You 're looking very weary now , do you need to go home and lie down for a bit ? |
| 19 | lie down for a bit ! |
| 20 | then he 'll button down for a bit |
| 21 | By the time you 've finished , if you are n't the best of mates and invited down for a vair long weekend in the cuntrair , I can only say — Air nair . |
| 22 | If you are turned down for a grant or loan or you are unhappy with the amount given , there is no right of appeal to an independent tribunal as there used to be . |
| 23 | When we got into the studio , I got Gibson to send a few guitars down for a try-out and I ended up using them the whole way through the album . |
| 24 | GONE : It 's a long way down for a reporter whose life is hanging by a thread |
| 25 | It 's not like us nipping down for a pint with the vicar ! ’ |
| 26 | Unhitching his horses from the plough , he fastened Gracie to a sapling on the bank of the river , before leading Daisy down for a drink . |
| 27 | ‘ She invited us both down for a drink . ’ |
| 28 | Spike , of course , kept saying " He wants us to go down for a drink . " |
| 29 | Now I did not have the slightest intention of going down for a drink : all the drinking I was going to do was at the reception — if I ever got to the wedding . |
| 30 | Ring her up , see if she wants to come down for a drink . |