Example sentences of "[vb -s] down and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every September we have the small ad hoc Cabinet committee known as the ‘ Star Chamber ’ [ MISC 62 ] in which Lord Whitelaw sits down and tries to bang heads together , and then the Prime Minister comes in at the last minute and bangs heads together even more . |
| 2 | Everyone else sits down and resumes work as though nothing had happened . |
| 3 | The student or executive who sits down and works non stop for two to three hours is not using their time productively , as , after fifty minutes , memory , concentration , and attentional skills decline . |
| 4 | the project engineer sits down and manually , let's be honest . |
| 5 | When the Farmer has finished he sits down and goes to sleep and begins counting to 100 . |
| 6 | Perry sits down and unravels six tiny envelopes , cut of magazine paper , on the low coffee table . |
| 7 | He sits down and writes me a receipt in the shadow of a sign which says ‘ You do n't have to be crazy here but it helps ’ . |
| 8 | So if the female does n't want it and this one clearly does n't , she just sits down and if she sits on her pseudo-penis , there 's no way the male is ever gon na get into her , but in fact this is true er in , in general terms of er if you think about it a , a female quadrupedal mammal I mean it looks like male domination , the male mounts and it looks as if she has to submit but she does n't . |
| 9 | sits down and says . |
| 10 | Secondly , he must make sure Hirst knuckles down and gets his feet back on the ground . |
| 11 | Sometimes a car slows down and the inhabitants wave and shout what they believe to be a significant phrase . |
| 12 | If too much water is added , the process becomes anaerobic too soon ; if too little water is present , bacterial activity slows down and ceases . |
| 13 | This movement , perhaps only a few metres per hour , continues until the supply dies away at source , and the nose of the flow gradually slows down and stops , still and silent . |
| 14 | Listen to the track and you can hear the way Joe speeds up , slows down and pauses here and there . |
| 15 | As we get older , our metabolism slows down and this affects the skin as much as any other part of the body . |
| 16 | A different suggestion is that the rate of the Earth 's spin periodically slows down and then speeds up again , the ‘ slow ’ times coinciding with ice ages . |
| 17 | A car slows down and the driver leans out of the window — ‘ Hey , are you Me Phi Me ? |
| 18 | Alternatively the decrease might be due to a progressive increase in vortex pinning in the superfluid as the neutron star slows down and cools . |
| 19 | My mind refused to clear and I felt delirious , like in a dream where everything slows down and you ca n't reach your destination . |
| 20 | This was because the circulation of capital slows down and the process of exploiting labour power is hindered . |
| 21 | the pace slows down and my sense arbitrates the dispute . |
| 22 | It is an S-shaped curve ( See Meadows ) , which shows increasing growth at first , then slows down and finally tends asymptotically to approach a maximum . |
| 23 | This might sound like irresponsibility , but , given how the performance pans out , you could also read it as professional commitment ; the longer the show goes on , the more the drink goes down and , in a remarkable contradiction of physics , the tighter the playing becomes . |
| 24 | They will be increased if the rate goes down and reduced if the rate goes up . |
| 25 | This rate of loss tends to slow down as weight goes down and the metabolism adjusts , to some degree , to dieting . |
| 26 | It takes a little of the Continental Plate with it , producing a rare and exotic melt of rock ; and as it goes down and melts , and as its volume changes and its physical chemistry alters , so this deep-diving mess of ocean rock contorts and winces , and deep-seated earthquakes and violent eruptions occur . |
| 27 | Wait until it goes down and you can walk in without getting your feet wet . ’ |
| 28 | Due to a now-realized continuity error , the blue sky turns to red , the sun goes down and the saucer flies on through the night . |
| 29 | The first place most people might take it is a Caribbean island where the sun never goes down and the rum prices never go up . |
| 30 | My head goes down and I focus on the problem until I figure out how it can be solved , ’ said the man whose solutions make tomorrow 's game a test of the Premier Division 's worthiness as well as an international examination on a particularly thorough level . |