Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two o'clock — I then sit down in front of the television with a pen and piece of paper and watch the schools programme which I like because you can have a rest from writing and reading . |
| 2 | I wait until my husband 's doing the late shift , and I wait until the children have gone to bed , and I sit down in front of the television . |
| 3 | if you go into the room sit down in front of the typewriter and the exam begins , and you do it you could pass easy , well I 've done it and I 've passed ! |
| 4 | He tottered away across the bath to Jazz and Bean , leaving Hoomey clinging to the rail , gazing down in amazement at the distance he had swum . |
| 5 | It was also over 50 per cent more than that laid down in codes for the relief of famine as a basic subsistence diet ( Kynch 1989 ) . |
| 6 | There should be a definite , fixed penalty for every offence , laid down in advance by the legislature in a strict tariff . |
| 7 | Conditions laid down by Haussmann along the lines of those set out by the Monopoly Commission , that the companies divest themselves of certain divisions which , if merged , would be against German interests in the arms industry , were eventually agreed to by both MBB and Daimler . |
| 8 | In Latin America other schools of thought have arisen , such as those of Masi and Orthega , but it is yet to be demonstrated that they are any more effective than the guidelines laid down by Hahnemann in the sixth edition of his Organon of Rational Healing . |
| 9 | The key objective is a 15 per cent return on equity , and all business within the group is conducted at arm 's length on guidelines laid down by CB at the centre . |
| 10 | ‘ Ah was plannin' to drive down through Arequipa to the Chilean border . ’ |
| 11 | BAR-SUR-SEINE : Beds of marl and calcareous marl ( Upper and Middle Kimmeridgian ) covered by Portlandian calcareous rocks broken down by frosts in the glacial period , providing excellent surface drainage , yet reserves of water for deep penetrating roots . |
| 12 | And the Midland actually goes down to sort of the top of erm Cambridgeshire , |
| 13 | I would be not in the least surprised if that Wallaby performance goes down in history as the best given in the one year that the law lasts — surely , even though players and referees will work their way round some of the problems , it will only last the year . |
| 14 | It took some time for all the records to be checked , but it 's now agreed that IBM Corp 's full year net loss for 1992 of $4,965m goes down in history as the largest corporate loss on record , taking the baton from General Motors Corp . |
| 15 | It was announced on Sept. 19 that a senior Exco member , Dame Lydia Dunn , was stepping down as head of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and would be succeeded on Oct. 1 by Victor K. Fung , chairman and chief executive officer of Prudential Asia Investments Ltd. |
| 16 | On May 16 Karl Otto Pöhl , 61 , announced that he was stepping down as president of the Deutsche Bundesbank , although his second eight-year term [ see p. 35724 ] was not due to expire until end-1995 . |
| 17 | Invisible earnings for the month are projected to have been £100million , while their contribution in October has been revised down from £300million to the same level . |
| 18 | I kneeled down by Ben in the mud and found he was still unconscious . |
| 19 | We sat with our backs against the trig point and gazed down like Gods on the coastal plain of Thassos . |
| 20 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 21 | It was their tree ; although distant from Nana 's house , it was one of several passed down as part of the family 's inheritance . |
| 22 | Do we really want to go down in history as the generation which sold for a mess of pottage the finest British companies , which have successfully built brand names and franchises of high repute over a century or more … ? |
| 23 | Though he had enjoyed his little investigations and masquerades , his only real discovery was that Nigel Steen had tried to disguise the fact of driving down to Streatley on the night of Saturday 8th December . |
| 24 | The base is winding down as part of the defence cuts . |
| 25 | I wo n't be the only person from East Anglian that 's come down to London over the weekend to shop , to stay with relatives or friends and take advantage of London 's shopping . |
| 26 | I do n't think I 've come down to earth since the day I met her . ’ |
| 27 | I do n't know maybe it may just be come down to sort of the individual theatres I suppose |
| 28 | His girlfriend , Hazel , had come down from Leeds for the weekend . |
| 29 | In the very beginning she had sat down with Ruth at the small table . |
| 30 | He had just sat down in front of the television , beer in one hand , chicken leg in the other , feet on the coffee table , and Sportsnight just started . |