Example sentences of "just [verb] down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Just nip down to the dining room and put the tiniest whisky , only up to here , " she held three of Nicandra 's fingers against the glass , rolling empty on the eiderdown " very nice , too . |
| 2 | Descending the stone steps from the station platform , Durham turned up the gas and had just sat down on the bench and opened his bait tin when he was startled by the apparition of a strange man followed by a large black retriever dog emerging from the coal cellar . |
| 3 | Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow . |
| 4 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 5 | Labour , he said , would fight for more cash to run social services , not just lie down like the Tories and accept what they were given . |
| 6 | Yes , but On the last comment that er Chris made er bringing us and the letter to county about the the failure of the meeting on the twenty second cos we feel that they are just lying down to the situation and not pursuing a pursuing the D A P about whatsoever and erm we are , certainly in John 's letter probably get it signed tonight complaining and asking for a a meeting as soon as possible because we feel that that they ought to be pursuing the question of these two sites , they 're dragging their feet ! |
| 7 | I think all that stuff is just lying down in the face of the mass media . |
| 8 | Because it was an old house that they were renovating , and it had got so much rot in it and woodworm , and he said he said he said th there they were walking up one minute and the next minute the piano was just going down through the stairs . |
| 9 | So just jot down at the side of the page the other eleven names in the room okay everybody 's Tony , Mike , Jeff , Sarah , Bob , Rob , Gordon , John , Tom , Joanne , Mike Dave . |
| 10 | ‘ Tonight why do n't we just skip all the 4 play mama , and just get down on the floor ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Tonight why do n't we just skip all the 4 play mama , and just get down on the floor ! ’ |
| 12 | I had intended to go to Downing Street , but then I thought I could n't bear it if old Chamberlain came out waving a bit of paper and smiling his death 's head smile , so I just lay down in the park instead . |
| 13 | ‘ Don and I were near the top , ’ Steve explains , ‘ but we just saw down in the snow and Don pulled out a bottle of booze . |
| 14 | Benjamin just stared down at the table , shaking his head . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll just go down to the surgery and pick up my case . |
| 16 | Wednesday , I 'd got Michael outside in the pushchair , coat on and I think I 'd just come down from the loo and I saw the car pull up I quickly ran and got me coat on oh I , I 'll come with you she said , so she come shopping with me . |
| 17 | There was a certain cynicism in the agency girl 's eyes , but Diane was n't somebody who 'd just climbed down off the backwoods bus . |
| 18 | And then she saw to her amazement that the man who had just climbed down from the cab was knocking on her door . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's much simpler just draping a piece of material round you to work out what shape would work best and then just sitting down at the sewing machine ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It 's much simpler just draping a piece of material round you to work out what shape would work best and then just sitting down at the sewing machine ! ’ |
| 21 | But in an interview with police one of the defendants claimed the men were just crouching down by the boards because they were trying to shelter from a strong wind . |
| 22 | And you can think of that pretty easily if you look at your table erm just write down with the charges on the the ions what H two S O four looks like . |
| 23 | Now that was the time when first daylight on Bristol , and we heard the bombers go up , and I went home out on the tram car , and there were the young ones just screaming down into the city , I said , ’ good grief , those bombers have hit something ’ , and it was Filton Aeroplane , people had direct hits on shelters you see . |
| 24 | ‘ She just fall down in the road screaming . |
| 25 | You just snuggle down in the feathers and hang on . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Mother , she just jumped down from the wall on me like a ton of bricks … |
| 27 | Plenty of small ones just float down through the atmosphere like dust — which , at a tenth of a millimetre across , is pretty much what they are . |
| 28 | But he said nothing , just sat down at the table , a pale-faced , freckled child , his school tie knotted to one side , and catching part of his collar . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's all cold , ’ she complains , then two minutes later she 's back eating it like she just sat down at the table . |