Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come and sit down over here . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Come and sit down over here . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Just sit down over there . |
| 4 | Take off your boots this moment , before I lose my temper , and sit down over there . |
| 5 | Sit down over there with Ricky and I 'll bring them to you . |
| 6 | Go on , sit down at once ! ’ ’ |
| 7 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 8 | ‘ First I want you to sit down over here and write down the names of all those who shared the stolen fruit with you . ’ |
| 9 | I was told to sit down for about five hours in a hall , to wait for them to call my name out , to go to see the doctor . |
| 10 | There when you go to the bank , you have to sit down for about two hours before they even think you 're there . |
| 11 | for it and he said well , well er basically it just got down to well if you kiss me I 'll give it to you and then , and then he decided that if I kissed him |
| 12 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 13 | On cold january nights , they camped out on platforms for the last experiences of ‘ Whistler ’ haulage , as the class of two hundred was whittled down to just one , the rebuilt , pioneer D200 . |
| 14 | During a typical marathon , your fatty tissue is whittled down by almost six ounces , your liver and leg muscles cough up about 11 ounces of carbohydrate , and — if you do n't drink properly during the race — your body can lose about 100 ounces of water . |
| 15 | The simplistic and rigid line of interpretation laid down from above culminated in the publication in 1938 of the authorized History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Bolsheviks ) ; Short Course . |
| 16 | As she began to choke she kicked and struggled for breath before tumbling down into nowhere . |
| 17 | The presentation is crisp and the topics broken down into easily comprehensible parts : every page tells a story and does it in such a delightful way that the reader is led on through the book . |
| 18 | Any process with a clearly defined end and intermediate objectives that can be broken down into easily analysed subskills is ideally suited for computerisation . |
| 19 | According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) . |
| 20 | Large scale problems or decisions are usually more effectively tackled by being systematically broken down into more manageable components . |
| 21 | These may be formulated in more or less specific terms and the rather general issues that I have already outlined may be broken down into more narrowly focused questions and be dealt with in more than one module with provision made for explicit cross-reference . |
| 22 | The whole notebook is saved as a complete file and would typically contain a large spreadsheet broken down into more manageable sections , sets of related data or similarly formatted spreadsheets . |
| 23 | Because BT was not restructured or broken down into more manageable units which might compete with one another ( the US solution to their phone giant AT & t ) , competition between giant BT and tiny Mercury is unlikely to constrain BT much . |
| 24 | John Lennon 's ‘ Imagine ’ , so powerful when one is listening to it , may afterwards be quite easily broken down into fairly disparate elements : radical text ; rock-ballad melody , harmony and orchestration ; singer-songwriter ( ‘ confessional ’ ) piano ; soul/gospel-tinged singing . |
| 25 | Thereafter , the weight loss slows down to approximately 1–2lb per week , depending upon the type of diet . |
| 26 | What , what it is on that one you 've got this speaker right and it goes down to really low frequencies especially |
| 27 | But usually I think ours have been it 's more it goes down to , not actual being but a an actual reading , it goes down to potentially what it 's capable . |
| 28 | And this actually goes down to about a hundred and eighty horsepower in some applications . |
| 29 | It starts off at some value here and it goes down until eventually when it 's done a certain number of miles the car 's worth nothing . |
| 30 | Through all the Bird generations it passed down to today . |