Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] down for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may also be useful in case the patient becomes unexpectedly tired , and needs to sit down for a moment . |
| 2 | and go out and that , if you want to come down for a couple of days . |
| 3 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 4 | Ring her up , see if she wants to come down for a drink . |
| 5 | I think that it was when he got turned down for the job of a bus conductor . |
| 6 | Sometimes , when activity is particularly intense , the wall of the crater is breached and a small lava flow emerges and flows away downhill , and if this happens , the activity tends to quieten down for a while . |
| 7 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , ’ Yanto began hastily , ‘ I was told he got pinned down for a week in no-man 's land during the battle of the Somme in 1916 . |
| 9 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 10 | Because when you do run across the road , you get to the other side , and you 're thinking , good gracious , that was a close shave , I 'll have to sit down for a minute , I think I 'll have a cup of coffee or something . |
| 11 | I needed to sit down for a minute . |
| 12 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I I do n't know whether M A F F would object , but they did lay down for the selection of their site . |
| 15 | One cafe and clothesshop owner says he was forced to close down for the weekend . |
| 16 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 17 | so we had to sit down for a while . |
| 18 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 19 | Writer Brad Darrach , who had flown down for an interview with Hopper , described the scene that developed : ‘ By mid-afternoon , the games became serious . |
| 20 | Now , as they left the shuttle lounge at Heathrow , mixed in with the commuters and shoppers who had come down for the day , Adam saw the tail . |
| 21 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |
| 22 | said stay down for a minute . |
| 23 | At one point he had to slow down for a distance of several miles . |
| 24 | You have to sit down for a minute — |
| 25 | But erm you see , they suggested going down for a meeting he 's up to his eyes in it ! |
| 26 | ‘ I just need to lie down for a while . |
| 27 | Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night . |
| 28 | Most businesses , including much of Hollywood , have shut down for the day . |