Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] down [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner .
2 Walking with his gauche , bouncy tread , his shoulders hunched , Nicola 's husband led Blanche and Dexter down the steps into the kitchen and gestured for them to sit down round the kitchen table .
3 My mother wanted me to go down to the bungalow with them and because I wanted — I wanted our relations to improve — well , I said I would . ’
4 He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details .
5 I stumbled to the first landing before the recurring cramp forced me to sit down on the floor .
6 I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces .
7 We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not .
8 If the organizer calls ‘ submarines ’ everyone lies down with a leg in the air .
9 They were beings like Miach , a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest .
10 In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre .
11 When we 're in the flat she says she 'll make some coffee , and I sit down on a chair with my carrier by my side .
12 I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round .
13 I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her .
14 I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky .
15 Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait .
16 There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree .
17 I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather .
18 About 9.30 I sit down with a cup of coffee to read the paper .
19 For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there .
20 I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks
21 I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal .
22 When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking .
23 Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead .
24 I suppose the reason I got down to an effort to be objective is that I did n't like the interpretations of my other things — so here I am with an array of alligator pears — about ten of them — calla lilies — four or six — leaves — summer green ones — ranging through yellow to the dark sombre blackish purplish red — eight or ten — horrid yellow sunflowers — two new red cannas — some white birches with yellow leaves — only two that I have no name for and I do n't know where they come from .
25 And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were .
26 I wept a little as I climbed the creaky stairs , and when I got into the attic I knelt down beside the bed , put my hands together and prayed .
27 Considered as an institutional bridge , Schloss Hartheim was part of my winding down from the experience of the KZ .
28 I flopped down onto a bean bag and took a sip of my tea .
29 I flopped down in the seat but missed and landed on the floor .
30 I bend down to the coke .
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