Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 2 | And do n't get so drunk that you ca n't stand up and have to sit down in the middle or , worse still , can not speak at all . |
| 3 | The whole affair , however , failed to gain the status of a diplomatic issue and started to calm down after the New Year holiday , leaving bad feeling between different groups of students . |
| 4 | So the more frozen in horror a human being is , the more likely the cat is to leap up and try to settle down on the static lap . |
| 5 | After his sensational ( and bloodthirsty ? ) triumph over the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel , he was told of the threat to his life by Ahab 's foreign queen Jezebel , and decided to flee down to the desert around Mount Sinai , the home of many prophets and a place of pilgrimage for many more . |
| 6 | He dismissed the subject from his mind and decided to go down to the tiny lunchroom he ran for his employees , to get a cup of coffee . |
| 7 | He put the journal on Alexandra 's lap and went to sit down in the chair beside hers . |
| 8 | He sought resolve and found a little and went to lie down on the bed to read a paperback of Anna Karenina , which he had always fancied because it had a scene on a railway platform . |
| 9 | Gabriel was not permitted to show himself , and had to duck down inside the cart , underneath the costumes . |