Example sentences of "[verb] down on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now again if you take a good look round the retired people in town there is , you just sit down on one of those benches in town and watch people for a bit , and you 'll see that a lot of them are deteriorating physically and that is making them , making it difficult for them to get about socially , shopping- wise and so on . |
| 2 | ‘ Sit down on that not very comfortable stool , and listen to what I have to say regarding your future , if you choose to accept it . |
| 3 | Now in fact that 's not what we like our stewards to do , what we like our stewards to do is actually to help people to enjoy themselves , to help people to erm to enjoy the house and to sit on things and and and actually say , no please sit down on that if you like to , it 's perfectly alright , that 's what it 's for . |
| 4 | His score of 568 points out of 600 was only seven points down on first position , which was taken by R Jones of Racketts Archery Club , with T Preston of Braintree Archery club second . |
| 5 | He urged her to sit down on one of the hard , gilded sofas for a moment . |
| 6 | Resentfully Kate took it from him before moving to sit down on one of the sofas . |
| 7 | Rincewind got down on one knee , the better to arrange the picture , and pressed the enchanted lever . |
| 8 | I think the government should slow down on all its activities at the present time and concentrate on getting the economy right , and everything else put on the back burner . |
| 9 | It swooped down on one of the dogs and was standing on its chest with its beak at her throat . |
| 10 | We do most humbly refer our cause and ourselves to the Goodness of your Honor and the Company beseeching you to consider favourably of our unfeigned hindrance beside the great loss of our own stock laid down on these mines . |
| 11 | Dustin , with darkened eyebrows , oily black hair smoothed down on either side of a central parting , dark sunglasses and Italian gestures , wastes much of his talent in this frenzied , intermittently funny satire on Italian customs . |
| 12 | crack down on inhumane rearing of livestock , particularly poultry , pigs and dairy herds . |
| 13 | Syrian troops allegedly crack down on pro-Iraqi demonstrators in eastern Syria . |
| 14 | Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 the NCC must offer a management agreement to any farmer on an SSSI whose application for an agricultural grant it turns down on conservation grounds . |
| 15 | Nicolas Tredell has said of some New Accents contributors , ‘ despite their ostensible Gallic sympathies , they crash down on French jouissance like a ceiling-full of cold showers . ’ |
| 16 | By 11 a.m. the bombardment intensified to the point where Campana could count the shells raining down on two neighbouring companies at a rate of five a minute . |
| 17 | Consultants are bound to fall down on one of these . ’ |
| 18 | We tried to keep the scaffolders er occupied , doing their scaffolding bit accurate but safe everybody 's gon na be climbing down on that . |
| 19 | Press the rice into the tin , cover it with foil and press down on all sides until it is compressed . |
| 20 | The man , it was the bald one with the glasses , knelt down on both knees and grabbed the bottom and began to kiss it ardently . |
| 21 | He looks down on hi life . |
| 22 | Not for a moment did his eyes sweep around the mountain heights which everywhere peered down on this upturned basin of ancient civilisation . |
| 23 | Chinese to bear down on environmental lawbreakers |
| 24 | This leaves a nice little ladder which I zig zag down on both sides with my sewing machine , then cut up the centre of the ladder . |
| 25 | How the Queen is cracking down on young Royals |
| 26 | Starting with a spectacular seizure of thousands of leading brand products , the US Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has begun cracking down on misleading food labelling . |
| 27 | Thames valley police are cracking down on bad driving . |
| 28 | By keeping double taxation to a minimum and cracking down on phoney transfer pricing , these international arrangements have helped boost the efficient allocation of capital worldwide . |
| 29 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on Oct. 31 adopted legislation cracking down on black-market trading in the period of transition to a market economy . |
| 30 | Why he decided to come down on one player 's side against another is beyond comprehension . |