Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just over two million of our pupils sit down to a knife-and-fork meal at midday . |
| 2 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 3 | On Saturday nights around 30 people sit down to a four-course SE Asian banquet . |
| 4 | Every Sunday the family get up early for an enormous American breakfast — pancakes , ham , waffles with maple syrup , and then later on in the afternoon they all sit down to an English roast . |
| 5 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 6 | Basically , I just sit down with a little Pignose amp and a tape recorder and play all night . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I think the Border clubs would have to sit down as a composite group and work out a new sevens structure . ’ |
| 8 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 9 | Is there a certain time when you always love to sit down with a relaxing drink and something to eat ? |
| 10 | At Beni Suef we got down into a dusty twilight . |
| 11 | The bridal couple got down at a tiny village of low mud houses . |
| 12 | At Eton , the Southern trialists were whittled down to a 16-man squad to face Essex at Forest on 5 November . |
| 13 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
| 14 | The Chinese had dyeing down to a fine art as much as 5,000 years ago , and there are herbs grown today whose names record their colouring ability , such as dyer's-greenweed and dyer's-bugloss . |
| 15 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 16 | Here , as with the vernacular , the Council for the sake of strengthening the ‘ active participation ’ which it correctly laid down as a vital principle of liturgy , overthrew a deformation which had become customary in the Middle Ages and against which the Reformation had vigorously protested . |
| 17 | The qualifying 20s. was no arbitrary figure but the maximum ( 16s. + 4s. for livery ) laid down for a common servant in husbandry by the wage-regulation act of 1515 . |
| 18 | There is an accepted tariff of damages for personal injuries laid down on a case-to-case basis by judges . |
| 19 | These priorities are also reflected in the prescriptions for teacher education laid down with an increasing degree of firmness from the centre . |
| 20 | Even quite senior figures in the system just went through the motions of working and fulfilling the crazy plan laid down from a great height without taking local conditions into account . |
| 21 | For it is the hydrogen bonding ability of the existing chain that determines the sequence of bases laid down in a growing chain of genetic material . |
| 22 | Such an approach also clearly specifies operating procedures and mechanisms laid down in a formal manual for example . |
| 23 | Then the heavy cloud began to break up and the pearly rays of the morning sun beamed down on a spume-streaked sea that glistened in shades of emerald and jade . |
| 24 | The river is impressive , tumbling down through a deep gorge , from which it has cut weird and wonderfully shaped holes in the smooth rock . |
| 25 | A second or two later , everything came crashing down in a big heap on the railway line below . |
| 26 | Waste material in the ubiquitous black plastic bags brews up and is broken down by a common bacterium , Clostridium botulinum , which produces a very potent toxin . |
| 27 | Cop the name of the man ( above ) who is stepping down from a top job . |
| 28 | The wooden stairs led down into a narrow corridor illuminated by a single naked bulb dangling at the end of a piece of frayed flex . |
| 29 | There was a trap-door in the centre of the kitchen floor , which led down to a deep cellar . |
| 30 | Outside them , by an open area and a covered section , a small flight of steps led down to a low outbuilding which faced the open area . |