Example sentences of "[verb] down on one " 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 | He urged her to sit down on one of the hard , gilded sofas for a moment . |
| 3 | Resentfully Kate took it from him before moving to sit down on one of the sofas . |
| 4 | Rincewind got down on one knee , the better to arrange the picture , and pressed the enchanted lever . |
| 5 | It swooped down on one of the dogs and was standing on its chest with its beak at her throat . |
| 6 | Consultants are bound to fall down on one of these . ’ |
| 7 | Why he decided to come down on one player 's side against another is beyond comprehension . |
| 8 | job to get out the house for a little while and she usually gets granny up , cos granny have to come down on one of those chairs . |
| 9 | It is no longer to come down on one side or other of the fence as the entire poem was so clearly designed to do , but to say following the ways of God will mean this . |
| 10 | One of the few senior aides in the confidence of the couple admits it is unlikely Tim bent down on one knee to pop the question . |
| 11 | When I saw them again I dropped down on one knee , knowing that even though they were constantly looking back they would n't see me at that low level , in my nature-coloured clothes . |
| 12 | Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs . |
| 13 | The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side . |
| 14 | He ducked down on one knee and said to himself , ‘ Sasaki , gambare ! |
| 15 | I walk up to the spot where a rabbit is entangled , I get down on one knee and lift the top line of the net over the back of my head . |
| 16 | One review board chairman agreed completely with the inspector , one completely disagreed and in the third case the chairman merely rewrote the report in different words without coming down on one side or the other . |
| 17 | HOLLYWOOD would go down on one knee for the exclusive rights to Saturday 's England fly-half qualifier at Gloucester between Rob Andrew and Stuart Barnes . |
| 18 | ‘ Did he go down on one knee , hand on heart ? ’ |
| 19 | The beautiful thing in that room was Maud Bailey herself , who went down on one knee very gracefully to plug in a kettle , and produced from a cupboard two blue and white Japanese mugs . |
| 20 | Luke went down on one knee . |
| 21 | Joe placed the bowl of water on the linoleum floor , took the discarded flannel from the bedside table and went down on one knee to apply treatment . |
| 22 | Karr went down on one knee . |
| 23 | ‘ Chieh Hsia … ’ the Marshal began , then went down on one knee , bowing his head low . |
| 24 | Holmes went down on one knee , and put his ear to the ground . |
| 25 | He went down on one knee beside the older woman . |
| 26 | Benjamin went down on one knee , tugging at my sleeve for me to follow suit . |
| 27 | Rachel gave the girl some analgesics for her pain , persuaded her to lie down on one of the beds then pulled the curtains around her to enable her to rest . |
| 28 | Sycorax no longer leaked whatever liquids or foods she was able to consume , as she had during the worst of her fever , and Ariel could prop her up into a sitting position , and then , presenting her shoulders to her , go down on one knee to hoist her piggy-back and carry her to the privy in the forest a few minutes ' walk away . |
| 29 | Dragging two musty-smelling blankets from the storage locker outside her door , she left one folded up as a pillow , shook the other one out and wrapped it around her , then lay down on one of the settees which provided seating and converted to pilot-berths on either side of the drop-leaf dining table . |
| 30 | Traditionally , if you wanted to get married , the chap was supposed to ask the girl 's father for permission before dropping down on one knee and popping the question . |