Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London share prices closed slightly lower , recouping early losses which sent the FT-SE 100 Index of leading shares 31.7 points down on fears of recession . |
| 2 | His score of 568 points out of 600 was only seven points down on first position , which was taken by R Jones of Racketts Archery Club , with T Preston of Braintree Archery club second . |
| 3 | Johannesburg : Interest was minimal and the market closed weaker , with the general index 19 points down at 2,710 . |
| 4 | By the close , the index was just 4.5 points down at 2,277.1 . |
| 5 | But by the close of business , with the Chancellor still speaking , it was just 3.1 points down at 2919.3 . |
| 6 | The cherry and whites were just two points short of victory at Leicester last saturday … they fought back from ten points down with 13 men … |
| 7 | At one stage the FTSE was more than 14 points down in reaction to predictions about Government borrowing . |
| 8 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 9 | The big challenge came from everybody 's favourite Ginny Leng … she was riding Welton Romance and after racing around the 28 fence course was just two penalty points down from the leader … less than once fault in the showjumping … |
| 10 | She invites me into the living room , pours me a coffee , sits down beside me , slips her shoes off and groans about the working day she has just been through . |
| 11 | Ron One sits down beside us . |
| 12 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |
| 13 | Everyone claps a little and Peter sits down on the drum stool . |
| 14 | When I stick my head round the door and tell Rachel I have to go out again , she sits down on the bed without a word . |
| 15 | John sits down on the bed and recites a mantra under his breath . |
| 16 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's advertising . |
| 17 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ What you need is a good romance and it so happens I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's marketing . |
| 18 | A girl sits down with a man and she says , ‘ I hear you 're very romantic , please take me to dinner ’ — that 's Public Relations ! |
| 19 | He/she sits down with you and compiles a list of the situations and circumstances which make them angry ( being criticized at school , being called names , and so on ) . |
| 20 | He sets down the Kitchens ' salami-free , chicken-free , beef-free , pastrami-free , rib-free order , with a characteristic ‘ Enjoy ! ’ and then sits down with them at their table and lights up a cigarette . |
| 21 | Diplow Hall , with ‘ its fine elms and beeches , its lilied pond and grassy acres specked with deer ’ , is another idyll until the reader sits down with Grandcourt at his breakfast table . |
| 22 | John sits down with his trophy . |
| 23 | And so quickly he makes his way to the gate of the city as we 've said , and he gets this man he sits down with the te with the te , with the ten elders who would be witnesses and the kinsman arrives . |
| 24 | They 're done because the old-fashioned way of doing a , putting something together is a paste-up job , you 've got all these stories filed about all sorts of things , and then some editorial chap or chapess sits down with sort of paste and scissors and cuts the things off , and they tend to cut things off the bottom to make it all fit until it feels about right . |
| 25 | ‘ Everything makes sounds , ’ Gaver explains as he sits down at his Macintosh . |
| 26 | He sits down at his desk and opens his diary . |
| 27 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 28 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 29 | Everybody sits down to tea — clients and volunteer carers . |
| 30 | Crilly sits down by the window and opens a gardening magazine . |