Example sentences of "[verb] down [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed some of us think we now know what bankers in the republic felt like , if you stand up to make a speech the matter has moved on before you sit down again but I must tell you of the next major problem . |
| 2 | Go and sit down again and |
| 3 | You do n't look as if you mean it , sit down please because my lesson started ten minutes ago there 's one over there Now in a minute I 'm going to give you a printed sheet and it 's going to ask you how well you think you 're doing . |
| 4 | There 's always a bad moment , Howard knows , after the porter 's unlocked your room , switched everything on , drawn the curtains , and gone away again with a huge tip because you had only a folder of fresh banknotes in your pocket , when you sit down helplessly and think , well , here we are , this is it , I 've arrived . |
| 5 | Which a lot of people would , say they go and sit down there and they say blah blah blah sign here and |
| 6 | Come and sit down there and do it with Mummy . |
| 7 | I really must take this over here again , you sit down there and |
| 8 | But sit down quietly and , after a while , you become invisible . |
| 9 | We then all sit down together and discuss these various options over and over again until the board has reached a position of understanding of where in broad terms we think the strategy of the individual business should fit . |
| 10 | Sit down together and talk honestly about what 's happened , what it could involve in practical terms , what you 'll probably all have to do without . |
| 11 | Having looked at all the options , sit down together and decide what to go for . |
| 12 | ‘ When you sit down afterwards and look at all the training you 've done and all the sacrifices you 've made and you do n't get a medal it 's pretty shattering . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Let's do as Sarella suggests and sit down calmly and listen to what each of us has to say . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps you 'd like to sit down rather than sort of hover at the back , it 's up to you entirely but you may feel that you 're slightly uncomfortable . |
| 15 | So I got up , but I was that s weak I had to sit down again and er the n the nurse that come in she said , You stop there till doctor comes . |
| 16 | Surely we 've got time to sit down somewhere and have a coffee … ? ’ |
| 17 | I have to sit down now and then . |
| 18 | More than once she has been asked , without prior warning , to sit down there and then and play an instrument — usually for a film sequence — and she always complies without a flicker of nerves . |
| 19 | Eliot saw the point , and asked me to sit down forthwith and draft a synopsis . |
| 20 | I had to sit down twice because of the roast beef and everything , which had gone straight to my legs . |
| 21 | Robbie would have liked to sit down too and have somebody make her a drink . |
| 22 | On the other hand it may represent a genuine attempt by specialists in related subjects to sit down together and plan a programme which allows for separate activities but suggests common themes and provides examples of integrated lessons as in the Nigerian Cultural and Creative Art syllabus . |
| 23 | However , we now have an opportunity to show that Europe can address European problems and that we will intervene in a way that will give the people of Yugoslavia the opportunity to sit down together and find a peaceful solution to the problems . |
| 24 | We , we do find it as a , as a group very difficult to organise ourselves and for us to have some time to sit down together and feed off one another and talk about it so this is quite , that 's quite hopeful , and I think that does show erm , something the same as er , I 'm sure Jack would say the same thing , like here we are , you know , we 've got all the incoming calls , we 've got all the other stuff to do , and what we 're actually doing when we 're trying to make appointments and so on is we , we fit it in , because we 're half way through |
| 25 | Get those who are with you on the mat to sit down so that the emergency services have a clear view across the area and can move quickly in the event of accident . |
| 26 | The Americans expected it and so it prepared them to sit down quietly and listen to speech . |
| 27 | If it strikes you this way , let me remind you that Peter 's particular values are not the point at issue , and invite you to sit down quietly and compose your own , very different equivalent . |
| 28 | well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking |
| 29 | I , I of course , I suppose going round with milk I 'd perhaps got more confidence th cos I had to take milk whether I wanted to or not , see and we if we got down there and there was two or three of the conductresses down the fleck and er , jump on a Dalston bus cos I 'd got to get to like , you know . |
| 30 | I we I got down there and there were no bugger in ! |