Example sentences of "[verb] down [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't look as if you mean it , sit down please because my lesson started ten minutes ago there 's one over there Now in a minute I 'm going to give you a printed sheet and it 's going to ask you how well you think you 're doing . |
| 2 | Perhaps you 'd like to sit down rather than sort of hover at the back , it 's up to you entirely but you may feel that you 're slightly uncomfortable . |
| 3 | I had to sit down twice because of the roast beef and everything , which had gone straight to my legs . |
| 4 | well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking |
| 5 | He looked around him as he went ; but he did not slow down much until he reached the culvert . |
| 6 | Some link with the doctrine of the matrimonial offence has been retained by the further provision that the court may not decide that a marriage has broken down irretrievably unless the petitioner can establish one or more of the five following circumstances : |
| 7 | Your marriage must have broken down irretrievably because you and your husband or wife have lived apart either for at least two years and your husband or wife will consent to the divorce in writing or for at least five years . |
| 8 | The problem of dieting without increased physical activity is that the BMR slows down rather than speeds up . |
| 9 | It is often the case that the quality of the documents produced by someone adopting desktop publishing goes down rather than up . |
| 10 | Cause the front tyres tend to go down more because they 're carrying more weight . |
| 11 | The concept tends to fall down slightly when variations are required . |
| 12 | Some years afterwards walking down here after he 'd been his for his silver wedding , golden wedding and so on er , coming down that dri drift down from the back he looked at me he said I do n't know boy ! |
| 13 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 14 | I sank down further until I could just see over the seat in front . |
| 15 | Abe ‘ The Babe ’ Lincoln looks down disapprovingly as our hero blows the crap out of anyone who moves . |
| 16 | And er but my husband was down here er a good year before we moved down here because there was n't accommodation available for us to move with i him you see ? |
| 17 | Cranston leaned over the table , placing his hands over those of Fitzosbert and pressing down hard until the keeper 's face paled and beads of sweat broke out on his brow . |
| 18 | He had hardly sat down again when there was another strong kick at the door . |
| 19 | Now , with the Tokyo stockmarket 's Nikkei index down more than 23% from its December 29th peak , with the yen sliding against the dollar and with interest rates on the up , the mood has switched to fear . |
| 20 | Ordinary kids might go robbing or beating up old ladies , something like that ; I used to come down here 'cause I knew that was n't the right way to let out the aggression . |
| 21 | Rose liked to come down here when he old man got on her wick . ’ |
| 22 | I get the impression from this friend , Samantha Jewson , that Louise was looked down on because of it . |
| 23 | Mr Cottle looked up to acknowledge the reaction to this information , but at once looked down again when he saw Mungo and Emily grinning at each other . |
| 24 | One afternoon I completed another unsuccessful attempt at a cannon : I had no sooner moved away than the pipe crashed down exactly where I had been standing . |
| 25 | He made out a case for dressing down rather than up . |
| 26 | I came down here because they were running out of work in Scotland initially . |
| 27 | And I also rely on my evidence of of quoting another custodian of Government policy namely the Prime Minister and its current Prime Minister erm who makes the point that proposals for development must not be turned down simply because it is the safest course . |
| 28 | The Park West ward councillor , Mrs Heather Scott ( Con ) , told the meeting the original application was turned down partly because of Ministry of Transport objections about traffic access . |
| 29 | Recently there have been a number of instances when our generation was turned down mainly because of restriction imposed by the National Grid Co. in England for construction and upgrading work . |
| 30 | It had no practical need to reach down further than the drought level of the river which had to leave a gap of at least two or three feet . |