Example sentences of "[verb] down [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncle Mick found it difficult getting down to kneel for the Consecration . |
| 2 | This Friday Geraldine settled down to wait for Newsnight . |
| 3 | They were closely followed by the children who settled down to wait for their treasure trove . |
| 4 | Then we all settled down to wait for Madam . |
| 5 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |
| 6 | After another couple of hymns and an anthem , they go down to prepare for the next service . |
| 7 | She 's gone down to pay for the , get something out of the boot outside . |
| 8 | I was just comin' down to look for you . ’ |
| 9 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 10 | In the 1930's , at a time when many potteries closed down to wait for more favourable conditions to return , the fifth Josiah Wedgwood decided to build a new factory . |
| 11 | I got some quiet music and sat down to listen for a minute . |
| 12 | She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt . |
| 13 | Furious , she sat down to wait for the next vehicle . |
| 14 | He dusted off a box and sat down to wait for them . |
| 15 | I knew I should go back to the stockade now , but an idea came to me and I sat down to wait for darkness . |
| 16 | His face a mask of puzzlement , Davis sat down to wait for someone to tell him to do something . |