Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] down [coord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we finally left the school the return journey home was even worse than the journey to school with pupils being cheeky when you told them to sit down and face the front . |
| 2 | But if you really want to punish me , force me to sit down and watch The Gladiators . |
| 3 | Just in case , I bent down and told the joint-smoking Santa to get rid of it . |
| 4 | When he was not looking I came down and took the car . |
| 5 | I walked down and stuck the thing into my landlady 's mailbox . ’ |
| 6 | I lay down and gripped the edges as the rug bubbled and rose beneath me . |
| 7 | " When these telegrams came I ran down and opened the door to the boy and I showed them to Mummy and she began very bravely , how lovely dear , and then began to cry and shut herself in her room . |
| 8 | When they did make up the T-shirts — as I backed down and did the separations — they got busted for sedition , which was an obscure act of whenever . |
| 9 | Make sure you sit down and fill the form in every evening , after your child has gone to bed , and try to be objective . |
| 10 | She bent down and picked the whole thing up and slammed it back . |
| 11 | She bent down and patted the silky black head . |
| 12 | The impressive realism of this performance is totally ruined , however , if you bend down and turn the snake up the right way again . |
| 13 | ‘ Had you been wearing your nightclothes earlier on , when you went down and closed the scullery window ? ’ |
| 14 | You go down and bring the hoover up ? |
| 15 | ‘ What heat down there , ’ Sabina blew out , as she sat down and stuffed the handful of down she had pulled from the plover into the bag of feathers Nunzia kept for plumping pillows . |
| 16 | She sat down and fanned the baby gently with a Japanese fan . |
| 17 | She sat down and sipped the wine and contemplated what she had done . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought we 'd better just have a quiet word together before we go down and see the kids on the beach , ’ Ben was saying as Carole bustled back into the room , carrying a tray laden with plates of cakes and biscuits . |
| 19 | yes could we sit down and write the two of us some pages to put to this next meeting so that we have actually got some meat in front of us ? |
| 20 | That of course assumes that everything spent on transport in England is a national cost and that the policing of London is a national cost , but we say that once we settle down and allocate the nature of expenditure as between the two countries , disallowing the cost of running the southern region of the railways as a United Kingdom expense , it is perfectly clear , as the Scottish newspapers have often demonstrated under the heading ’ Scotching the Myth ’ — Scottish Television has demonstrated the same in a programme of the same name — that there is no question of Scotland being subsidised in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 21 | But we could n't know this until we sat down and did the calculation . |
| 22 | When they think they know , they can ask one of their friends and , as soon as they guess correctly , they sit down and watch the fun as the others seek out their own identity . |
| 23 | I had resolved that I would try an alliance with him , persuading him not to create a female creature and helping him to hunt down and exterminate the creature already at large in the world . |
| 24 | They sat down and watched the lawyers . |
| 25 | He heard her whisking and wailing on her way , and he bent down and laid the cock-feather on the stone , and behold with a heavy groaning and grinding the huge stone swung up in the air and down in the earth , as though on a pivot or balance , disturbing waves of soil and heather like thick sea-water , and showing a dark , dank passage under the heather-roots and the knotty roots of the gorse . |
| 26 | He bent down and stroked the shining plumage of a large bird that lay at his feet , trussed up with creepers . |
| 27 | When he reached the store he bent down and fondled the Labrador 's ears , his face softening . |
| 28 | But when he knelt down and tested the earth with his hands , some of the tracks seemed fresh . |
| 29 | At one point he knelt down and parted the heather with his hands , so sure was he that he had found it , but there was nothing but the scree and the tiny plants which grew amongst it . |
| 30 | He reached down and grabbed the boy 's wrist . |