Example sentences of "[verb] down at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most conductors just sit down at that point and , beyond making sure that the orchestra kept up with the stage , leave the music to its own devices . |
| 2 | Brandy , meat and bread and cheese were distributed and he rode round the encampment raising his hat in response to the men 's cheers and delivering an admirably concise address : ‘ My brave boys , we have one march more and then all our labour is at an end ; sit down at your tent doors and be alert to take up your arms . ’ |
| 3 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 4 | Sit down at your machine with a cassette player and knit , following Diane 's clear and helpful explanations and in just a few hours YOU will be the master of your machine ! |
| 5 | Go on , sit down at once ! ’ ’ |
| 6 | He was pestering people at the bar , trying to butt into their conversations or sit down at their tables and behaving — as far as people who did not know he was ill were concerned — like an archetypal northern wally . |
| 7 | The temptation and the suspense novel , a book in which a high degree of identification both from intellectual curiosity and emotional involvement is necessary for the writer as much as the reader , is to catch hold of some intriguing initial situation , sit down at the typewriter and go racing ahead from there . |
| 8 | Please sit down at the table . |
| 9 | I sit down at this desk with a ledger . |
| 10 | I sit down at my desk and write a letter of accusations to Crilly . |
| 11 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 12 | And there 's another sort of things now that we do n't hear is when you sit down at the table to eat erm they 're probably the most the hostess would say now would be , Help yourself . |
| 13 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 14 | Johannesburg : Interest was minimal and the market closed weaker , with the general index 19 points down at 2,710 . |
| 15 | By the close , the index was just 4.5 points down at 2,277.1 . |
| 16 | But by the close of business , with the Chancellor still speaking , it was just 3.1 points down at 2919.3 . |
| 17 | He had missed her moment — he knew he had missed it — ; yet his eyes softened suddenly , and you could almost see the shadow fall from his shoulders as he twinkled down at Laura where she knelt before her dying fire . |
| 18 | His blue eyes twinkled down at her with sudden , unexpected mischief and he offered her his arm . |
| 19 | Our last glimpse of Henry Higgins shows his mother gazing down at him , a worried look on her face . |
| 20 | She frowned , gazing down at the table , she even bared her teeth . |
| 21 | He paused only the once , gazing down at the burnt meat that had been his friend and comrade for so long . |
| 22 | After taking my blood pressure and temperature , they took turns to poke , prod and press , then stood gazing down at me with puzzled wonder . |
| 23 | Now he must go away and I dare say I shall never see him again , ’ Joan said woefully , lagging behind despite Anne 's grumbles and gazing down at the ring . |
| 24 | For a moment , it could have been a second only , he sat rigidly gazing down at his clasped hands . |
| 25 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't expect them to have guns , ’ said Kellerman , gazing down at his stricken , companion . |
| 27 | Dyson stood by the stove , gazing down at her with serious ferocity . |
| 28 | ‘ Mum drunk ? ’ asked Camille , gazing down at her mother with apparently clinical detachment . |
| 29 | ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time . |
| 30 | He was leaning against the parapet rail , gazing down at the brick terrace several floors below . |