Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately a supply of candles was found and as the competing teams and their supporters arrived they settled down to some serious drinking as darts players do and nearly cleared the stock of bottled beer before the lights came back on . |
| 2 | He urged her to sit down on one of the hard , gilded sofas for a moment . |
| 3 | Rachel gave the girl some analgesics for her pain , persuaded her to lie down on one of the beds then pulled the curtains around her to enable her to rest . |
| 4 | Well I got it whittled down to six extra . |
| 5 | She had to face the handicaps of severe diabetes but , true to Greek ideals , she endured them with stoicism ; only on four occasions in 30 years did she break down under these cruel burdens . |
| 6 | Did it come down in remote forest land where it still lay , gradually decaying ? |
| 7 | ‘ Did he go down on one knee , hand on heart ? ’ |
| 8 | No sooner had she sunk down on one of the chesterfields than he was hunkering down in front of her , lifting her injured foot to rest on his knee , removing the shoe and gently touching the nylon-covered flesh beneath the delicate ankle-bone . |
| 9 | Of course somebody , Who Shall Be Nameless , would bring up the subject of Burns-And-You-Know-What , and how many of his children were born on The Wrong Side Of The Blanket , What Right Had We to look down on Brown Owl for her shotgun wedding when we were all supposed to look up to Rabbie Burns as Our Big Hero ? |
| 10 | I have already discussed the improbability of the entire aircraft , its crew and its troops disappearing totally over land ; though , of course , had it come down in enemy-occupied territory , nothing might ever have been known of the matter if all the occupants had perished , and certainly not if any survivors had been disposed of ( which , given the purpose of their mission , would have been highly probable ) . |
| 11 | Barbara suspected they boiled down to plain jealousy . |