Example sentences of "[vb base] down [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 2 | I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Its accountants sit down with the auditor for a day of conjuring tricks and , hey presto , £15m gets lost in a cloud of smoke , leaving a mere £7m to find . |
| 5 | Make tying laces into a great game : sit down with the shoes in front of you both and tie and untie them together . |
| 6 | 3 Push down with the hand on the elbow , forcing your fingers to travel further down your spine . |
| 7 | You can buy those things that you push down on the top like that , and you |
| 8 | If we push down on the canvas by putting a heavy object on it we create a dent . |
| 9 | Many parents and teachers back down in the face of a massive tantrum . |
| 10 | For goodness sake crack down on the use of the word potager , which does not appear in my dictionary ( Concise , Oxford ) . |
| 11 | The most convenient way to arrange this is to move HIMEM down by the length of the program and load the machine code program in to this protected area . |
| 12 | Then again they would just stand there , or squat down in the shade of a sand hill , their eyes fixed on the two endless parallels , following them out until they joined and lost themselves in the bush . |
| 13 | Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and press down with the back of a metal spoon . |
| 14 | Tap down with the top of the formwork . |
| 15 | Lower the slab in place , then tap down with the handle of a club hammer . |
| 16 | The figures that I quoted were given in a written answer to a question that I put down about the cutbacks in regional preferential assistance . |
| 17 | Further important subsurface information comes from the several boreholes put down in the search for coal by the Department of Commerce on the advice of the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | On an instrument descent while under approach control , the Falcon let down into the side of a mountain , killing all three occupants . |
| 19 | Many had begun by raging against it as angry young men or women and felt terribly let down by the failure of the Wilson government to make much of a dent in it . |
| 20 | It is somewhat let down by the front of the headstock , which is covered in sanding marks , but in the company it keeps here it 's the exception rather than the rule . |
| 21 | One wonders whether he observed this on his visits to Hailing as the houses of the villagers spread down to the river near the Palace , an ideal place for the collecting of rushes . |
| 22 | When he was n't sketching or painting as a relaxation , Viktor took a rod and line down to the banks of the Moscova and fished for the grey roach that lurked in the sluggish water . |
| 23 | The enormous necropolis is adjacent and contains hundreds of tombs cut down into the tufa over a distance of two miles . |
| 24 | If you include a Boss and Big Boss in your front rank this will reduce the number of vulnerable Goblins fighting and cut down on the number of casualties you suffer . |
| 25 | Cut down on the use of heated appliances such as dryers and tongs if possible and ALWAYS use a protective product beforehand . |
| 26 | The reduction in the numbers visiting the gardens has allowed the grass to remain green and cut down on the amount of litter dropped and graffiti scribbled . |
| 27 | They are particularly concerned that the poor , elderly and sick will be forced to run up debts or cut down on the amount of electricity , coal , oil and gas they use . |
| 28 | Voters narrowly rejected this scheme , which would have devolved responsibility to the communal level of authority , and cut down on the amount of incineration . |
| 29 | And the dear , good man had designed Almsmead , in the centre of a green field ; had surrounded it with a rose-garden ; given her apple trees and a lily-pond ; a trellised , covered walk down to the river with its clear , clean water in which she could see smooth pebbles and little silvery fishes instead of the slime and gas bubbles and dead cats one saw — if one had the stomach to look — in Frizingley 's canal . |
| 30 | We walk down to the shore in the warm drizzling rain and wait at the quayside . |