Example sentences of "[verb] down at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian , 49 , told friends : ‘ It may sound sloppy but the two of us will be able to sit down at home and have a jolly good cuddle listening to this . ’ |
| 2 | At two o'clock I should like to sit down at table . |
| 3 | This core of lava may continue to flow for a long while , but when the supply of fresh lava slows down at source , there will not be enough coming through to fill the whole volume of the core , so an empty space will be left , and this will form a long tube or tunnel running along the centre of the flow , sometimes for many kilometres . |
| 4 | In fact , much so-called juvenile water is probably either rainwater that has circulated to great depths , or water that was trapped in rocks that have been carried down at subduction zones ( see Inside Science , No. 6 , 23 February 1988 ) . |
| 5 | As soon as she lies down at night , this stuff runs from the sinus and |
| 6 | Then the walls will stand firm , tile stones will cling together , and the buildings will not fall down at night . " |
| 7 | Or once the partition walls are down , you can create your own flexible dividers , with bookcases , shelving units , screens or screen-like structures like trellis , or even Murphy beds that let down at night from what looks like a panelled screen . |
| 8 | Jeopardy was leaning against the wall , his head thrown back , arms folded , looking down at Amber with inscrutable eyes . |
| 9 | The miners tramped up the valleys in the morning , worked all day and came down at night . |
| 10 | when you came down at dinner time , when you came charging into the common room . |
| 11 | After electrification in 1966 , the Bletchley train continued to pick up at Loughton , but not to set down at night . |
| 12 | I 've got erm , how many hours and all this written down at home if you want me to bring that up |
| 13 | The effect is not observed in some renal and heart disorders ; then the rate of urine flow on lying down at night is greater than during the daytime and this will be diagnostically useful to the physician . |
| 14 | Coughing spasms every 2–3 hours worse ( < ) lying down at night until 3 am . |
| 15 | Coryza is worse ( < ) lying down at night and worse ( < ) in the open air and windy weather . |
| 16 | Difficulty breathing may be better ( > ) lying down at night and worse ( < ) in the morning when there may be copious and usually easy expectoration . |
| 17 | She stayed in her room all day , going down at quarter-past six to telephone her mother . |
| 18 | Also difficult to look down at watch . |
| 19 | Beatty on the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet in 1918 : ‘ The German flag is to be hauled down at sunset and is riot to be hoisted again without permission . ’ |
| 20 | Strikingly patterned , longer-legged than Snipe , with shorter bill turned down at tip . |
| 21 | Well we er duly arrived down at quarter to ten as twenty six of September this year . |
| 22 | We get down at heel match coverage , slotted into Grandstand . |
| 23 | It was never entirely clear where he bedded down at night after he lurched from the pub with various caddying cronies of a like mind . |
| 24 | ‘ But if my washing machine breaks down at home , I do n't know what to do , I go to pieces , ’ she says . |
| 25 | Mr Powell will step down at Christmas , days before Carlton takes over the franchise held by Thames on New Year 's Day . |
| 26 | There were stacks of old art magazines , a broken easel , the white-painted bough which Elise had brought down at Christmas before trimming and hanging it over the inglenook fireplace . |
| 27 | The name of this parish is said to come from the legend that builders , on the orders of a local lord , tried to raise the church elsewhere eight times ; on each occasion finding it pulled down at night and the tools moved to the present site . |
| 28 | But that evening I settled down at home to watch a superb and delightful documentary on the giant otters of South America . |
| 29 | I managed , as he slumped down at table to eat . |
| 30 | They need to be informed about the aims and content of foreign language teaching in this country , as laid down at present by exams such as GSCE and in the future by the National Curriculum . |