Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] down [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 2 | You had me pegged down as a full-time thief . ’ |
| 3 | However , I settled down with a new teacher for both piano and violin . |
| 4 | Dazed , I looked down at a little girl with wide , solemn eyes . |
| 5 | Surkov , in a Yale T-shirt , was sitting alone at a table when I went down to a late breakfast . |
| 6 | And if I come down with a sore throat now , I 'll know who to blame . |
| 7 | I sat down to a great Conservative cheer and then Michael Meacher had his opportunity . |
| 8 | In the shopping centre , I was gratified to see my name up on the Day 's Attractions board , and I sat down at a prepared place by the side of the stage . |
| 9 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 10 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So what happens if you have , just supposing you went down to a crazy way o of means testing . |
| 13 | She looked down on a motionless gathering of Mercedes , BMWs , a Range Rover and the occasional Rolls . |
| 14 | Do you sit down with a blank sheet of paper and think ‘ I 'm going to write a poem on the subject of windows , or bible stories ’ ? |
| 15 | You will soon learn how it behaves in the pan , but if agonising doubts gather as you gaze down upon a yellow heavy flake , pick up a stone and crush the flake . |
| 16 | She sat down on a modern sofa in cream and chrome and surveyed the room . |
| 17 | Once in her suite of rooms she sat down at a little Louis Quinze escritoire , its pale grey panels painted with carnations and pinks , and wrote a short letter to her faithless lover , asking him to call on her urgently at the embassy at eleven the next morning . |
| 18 | At Beni Suef we got down into a dusty twilight . |
| 19 | We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees . |
| 20 | Eventually we drop down onto a steaming red earth track which cleaves a disappearing seam through dark green ribbons of corn . |
| 21 | We settled down with a new bottle of champagne on the table before us , and I summarised what I had discovered about Brian Harley 's contract with Supersight and what I had not discovered about his putter . |
| 22 | We slipped down into a small crater . |
| 23 | The smiling white face of William Ehrman , young third secretary at the British Embassy , was a reassuring presence at the table , when we sat down to a welcoming drink . |
| 24 | Mrs Knelle soon appeared in a dressing gown , and we sat down to a soothing breakfast of toast . |
| 25 | They drive down into a dry watercourse and are surrounded by hundreds of cattle returning from their grazing , driven by children and young warriors . |
| 26 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 27 | They squatted down on a narrow ice ledge . |
| 28 | The only passion involved in this operation was an overmastering desire to see her nailed down in a brown box . |
| 29 | So do they go down as a new intake . |
| 30 | suffered their fifth defeat in a row when they went down to a narrow 17–15 defeat in the Shield at home to Knottingley . |