Example sentences of "[verb] down for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sit down for a minute . |
| 2 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 3 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 4 | You either sit down for a meal or get ready for bed and the phone goes . ’ |
| 5 | Right , just sit down for a minute and let's , Michael read his first . |
| 6 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 7 | Here — ’ he shoved some gear off the wooden slats of the cockpit , ‘ sit down for a bit . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |
| 9 | Sit down for a minute , he 's gon na be a minute . |
| 10 | No sorry it 's mummy 's fault , she pulled the wrong one , that 's it , good girl , I 'll er brush your hair in a minute , get all your knots out , right , sit down for a minute , well turn round , there |
| 11 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 12 | It may also be useful in case the patient becomes unexpectedly tired , and needs to sit down for a moment . |
| 13 | You have to sit down for a minute — |
| 14 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 15 | I needed to sit down for a minute . |
| 16 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 17 | Because when you do run across the road , you get to the other side , and you 're thinking , good gracious , that was a close shave , I 'll have to sit down for a minute , I think I 'll have a cup of coffee or something . |
| 18 | so we had to sit down for a while . |
| 19 | The qualifying 20s. was no arbitrary figure but the maximum ( 16s. + 4s. for livery ) laid down for a common servant in husbandry by the wage-regulation act of 1515 . |
| 20 | Just one of the six keyboards on test came close to meeting the criteria I initially laid down for a replacement keyboard , the Fuller FDS. Even here the poor workmanship left much to be desired . |
| 21 | then he 'll button down for a bit |
| 22 | Firms would invite favoured clients or business associates down for a day at Sandwich , either as a reward for past favours rendered or in the hope that the goodwill created would lubricate some future deal . |
| 23 | You know , the computer goes down for a hour , it 's three-quarters of the day to get everything back and validated , and that 's a major interruption . |
| 24 | Spike , of course , kept saying " He wants us to go down for a drink . " |
| 25 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 26 | When life sank down for a moment , the range of experience seemed limitless … . |
| 27 | ONE WAR WAS WINDing down for a while , not ending , because they never end . |
| 28 | We are able to stand down for a while in the evening to get some sleep , write letters , play darts or watch TV . |
| 29 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 30 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |