Example sentences of "down and [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go right , bounce on the trampoline , go up , right , down and paint the button , paint some platforms to bounce out of the cave you 're in , go left , down to the trampoline , go right and fall down , go left and paint the switch , go right and climb the stairs poking out of the cauldron , paint the button on your right , fall down and go left , fall down and go left , fall down and collect the picture from the bottom of the hole , paint some of the ledges to get out of the hole and go right , fall down the right-hand side of the map and go left , paint the switch , go left and paint the next switch . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He bends down and licks the surface of the sideboard with long thorough flat sweeps of his wide rude tongue for every last scrap . |
| 4 | Make sure you sit down and fill the form in every evening , after your child has gone to bed , and try to be objective . |
| 5 | So anyway she had the er settee and brought a friend with her with a well I think it was one of these Range Rovers that you can seat erm , you know , about seven and he dropped the seats down and got the settee in , I do n't know how he managed it . |
| 6 | Place turkey skin-side down and lay the bacon across the flesh ; pile the stuffing in the centre . |
| 7 | Why do n't you sit down and read a book for five |
| 8 | The House of Commons Select Committee on the Estimates ( 1958 ) argued that the whole system of Treasury control was breaking down and advocated a committee of inquiry . |
| 9 | Minch would have to shut him up and calm down Slorne herself until eventually she would quieten herself down and let the rest of us get some peace and quiet . ’ |
| 10 | But when he knelt down and tested the earth with his hands , some of the tracks seemed fresh . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He leaned down and touched the child with one finger . |
| 13 | Too much exclaiming and protesting would have aroused a degree of doubt as to his sincerity , but Herluin clearly felt that here was nothing worse than some confused stupidity among too many helpers in too much panic and haste , and what was lost would be found as soon as everyone calmed down and halted the hunt for a while to take thought . |
| 14 | Just bung that in like that seal it down and put a stamp on it . |
| 15 | If it 's not written down I do n't know when they 've had or what they 've had , you 'll have to write it down and put a date on it . |
| 16 | and they have these bloody great artics come down and put the stuff in your shed and it was nicked but he said there 's in , there 's about eighty odd hampers nicked worth about sort of , perhaps four thousand |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | WHAT the Taylor Report offered was a chance for everyone concerned in soccer — officials , players , spectators , politicians even — to sit down and create a blueprint for the game for the next 100 years . |
| 19 | well I went down and had a look at it as a kid you know . |
| 20 | Yeah , that 's why you see , we 've converted , put a wall up where the door were and knocked the wall down and had a door into the house |
| 21 | Fall down , then fly up the pipe , use flying power to get the weight above you , go right , fall down , fall down again , go left to the main wall , jump up and throw the weight onto the button , go up the pipe , right , up on the lift and collect the weight , go left , fall down and throw the weight on the button , go down , right , up on the lift , left and up the pipe , go right ( dodge the guillotine ) and leg it to the door . |
| 22 | The banker sat down and accepted a cup of tea . |
| 23 | Then the hard body overpowered her completely , thrusting into her , hands biting into her hips as she sprawled beneath him , her mouth slack and her eyes dazed , and as he looked down and saw the expression on her face he began to groan louder with pleasure , whispering incoherent words in a ragged , dehumanised voice , devastating her with the absolute possession he took , sliding his hands under her rear , his face contorting barbarically as he went into a violent climax in a series of deep , fast thrusts and jerked against her with a fierce cry , his body shaking as with the spontaneous release of an electric current . |
| 24 | She turned and spurred Fontana forward , leaning down and dragging the bag over the ground . |
| 25 | As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away . |
| 26 | His plan was endorsed ; he then sat down and wrote a letter to the Director of Education in Bath Street ; and that gentleman 's reply was positive . |
| 27 | " Distractedly , he began to change hammer , pouch , pipe and matches from hand to hand , dropping them and picking them up , before finally deciding to put the hammer down and stuff the rest into his pockets . |
| 28 | They have nothing better to do than go down and make a nuisance of themselves to people who are peacefully going about their own affairs . |
| 29 | First sit down and make a list of your plus and minus points . |
| 30 | With experienced viewers there was not only a high degree of involvement in watching the work ‘ … melt down and become an object with a life of its own ’ ( Hyman , 1968 ) but also a strength and honesty of feeling that outweighed any more general sense of like or dislike . |