Example sentences of "[verb] down [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sit down a minute , ’ said Simon . |
| 2 | Aggie drew in a long breath , bowed her head slightly and said , ‘ Aye , I know you did , love ; but come and sit down a minute . ’ |
| 3 | Si sit down a minute love |
| 4 | Sit down a minute . |
| 5 | That 's it , now sit down a minute ! |
| 6 | Sit down a minute |
| 7 | Sit down a minute . |
| 8 | come and sit down the front here to . |
| 9 | Those blacks were hitting the deck as soon as it moved , and in the reverberating seconds when we all look to see who 's been hit , the suede nips down the alley and into the car . |
| 10 | Novotna had looked well in control , always seeming to guess correctly whether Seles was going to hit down the line or cross-court . |
| 11 | However , the use of pig fat in the enfleurage process will be off-putting to the vegetarian who may have to forgo the pleasures of jasmine and tuberose or track down a supplier of the even more elusive vegetable oil absolutes . |
| 12 | An affair with this lovely woman who was so rich and inviting , and Viktor 's brief to him , track down the cross . |
| 13 | But I did n't get married four times because I like trolling down the aisle , I got married four times because I like the idea of being married and I like sharing my life with a man . |
| 14 | 2 Push down the clutch plate ( a ) and draw back the piston rod ( b ) |
| 15 | Meanwhile , I had to go up into the roof and push down the ballcock when things went wrong . |
| 16 | It is when these fail that sex , drugs or alcohol are invoked to more effectively push down the pain . |
| 17 | Laverne points down the bank on the other side of the road . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've got plenty of time for the post to get to America , ’ I said , sticking down the envelope . |
| 19 | It was , of course , by far a situation too good to last and in time , gazing down the glen , a solitary figure was spied struggling up the brae — without a kit-bag — the WAAFs identified their squadron officer ( known as Belladonna ) apparently about to make her first call on her troops in the wild , I was never able at first hand to witness this airmen 's paradise but it is a story that passed the rounds at Kinloss . |
| 20 | Along this trench , oceanic crust with ophiolites and " turbidites " coming from the south-east was probably consumed down a Benioff zone . |
| 21 | Some of the episodes and dialogue are intentionally comic — as when the son helps a friendly local chief to shake off some warriors from a neighbouring tribe by bringing down a swarm of bees on them . |
| 22 | The rifle is capable of bringing down a helicopter , and has a killing range of more than a mile . |
| 23 | He further let it be known — in the most careless way imaginable , like a good gun bringing down a bird without breaking a conversational flow — that he was a bachelor , a man of wealth , a friend of the Prime Minister and , in an amiable manner , on the lookout for a secure investment in matrimony . |
| 24 | Traffic lights throughout Seaham were thrown into chaos yesterday after a heavy goods vehicle hit a post on the Times Inn bank , bringing down an electricity cable . |
| 25 | Where a temple , folly or grotto has been long abandoned and the roof has collapsed , bringing down the ceiling with it , a careful archaeological sift must be made through the debris . |
| 26 | Ken plans to put a false roof over the sales area , bringing down the ceiling to create a more intimate atmosphere . |
| 27 | Using two Stanley Height Reducers made the task of ‘ bringing down the ceiling ’ much simpler than using a conventional timber batten . |
| 28 | Frankly I think from our colleagues in the conservative party should n't really be wasting our time here with these silly motions , erm what 's needed is if you 're gon na improve the housing situation in the city and in the country as a whole , we need to be allowed to use our capital receipts , all the ones we 've piled up , and we need to also inject money into the national economy to build new homes and incidentally to get the economy moving again and start bringing down the level of unemployment . |
| 29 | Since the introduction of the laser more operations have been performed bringing down the surgery waiting list . ’ |
| 30 | Then , as the players came thundering down the boards , she joined the stampede , trying to steal the ball and nearly bringing down the pony of a fat child with pigtails , whose mother promptly started yelling at Daisy . |