Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] down on the " in BNC.
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1 | I found the door unlocked as I had given my master the key before I left ; the light was poor but I could see nothing had been disturbed so lay down on the bed , pulling the curtains around me . |
2 | The harsh lights that the photographers had used still glared down on the scene . |
3 | Corbett smiled and walked back to sit down on the stool while Father John bowed to Wishart and silently left the room . |
4 | Sheer orders of magnitude matter , and the orders of magnitude do not come down on the side of the real-balance effect . |
5 | He nodded towards Thomas , who had wandered off to squat down on the terrace and poke at something at the foot of the vines . |
6 | Do n't cut down on the amount you drink as you need a regular amount of liquid , but do n't have too much after teatime . |
7 | Do n't lie down on the sands where the hole in the sky is . |
8 | Descending the stone steps from the station platform , Durham turned up the gas and had just sat down on the bench and opened his bait tin when he was startled by the apparition of a strange man followed by a large black retriever dog emerging from the coal cellar . |
9 | Paul spends most of the rest of his letter dealing with the problem in Corinth ; he does n't come down on the side of being totally separate or of being totally indistinguishable in lifestyle — but you 'll have to read that for yourself . |
10 | After a couple of hours , Zeno had simply lain down on the floor and gone to sleep . |
11 | I have just sat down on the wet grass when everyone around me starts to move swiftly in the direction of the wooded area just visible through the mist and gloom . |
12 | Yes , they have n't clipped down on the front . |
13 | Hovering , Ace considered where to touch down on the surface below . |