Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have n't found their sea legs yet , and a sudden lurch can bring several of them raining down on our faces . |
| 2 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 3 | They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner . |
| 4 | Walking with his gauche , bouncy tread , his shoulders hunched , Nicola 's husband led Blanche and Dexter down the steps into the kitchen and gestured for them to sit down round the kitchen table . |
| 5 | My mother wanted me to go down to the bungalow with them and because I wanted — I wanted our relations to improve — well , I said I would . ’ |
| 6 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 7 | They permitted me to go down into Tara 's Sorcery Chambers for this . |
| 8 | Another recurrent crisis , during university years , was the cerebral accident — a subarachnoid haemorrhage unambiguous enough for me to sit down with pen and I paper and put my affairs in order . |
| 9 | He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details . |
| 10 | I stumbled to the first landing before the recurring cramp forced me to sit down on the floor . |
| 11 | Also , when he gestured to me to sit down on the mats which covered the floor , I could not but observe two fairly fresh ( tuskless ) skulls above the door by which we had entered . |
| 12 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 13 | I saw Changez 's eyes fall caressingly on his wife 's form and then rest on his prostitute 's grooving hips as the two of them got down to Martha Reeves and the Vandellas . |
| 14 | And most of them moved down to Green as soon as it was built . |
| 15 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 16 | The easiest way I have found to assess the strength of this group of goals is to give individuals a single sheet of paper and to ask them to write down in five minutes what they hope to achieve in the next five years . |
| 17 | You had me pegged down as a full-time thief . ’ |
| 18 | Well , er the C B I and other bodies are pressing for them to come down at once , er John Major has said it 's only a question of time . |
| 19 | We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not . |
| 20 | If the organizer calls ‘ submarines ’ everyone lies down with a leg in the air . |
| 21 | You tell Ernest to see there 's a good fire for me to come down to . ’ |
| 22 | I had spent Monday , after a cursory check of the Poles , making one or two repairs and improvements to the Factory , working through the afternoon until my eyes got sore and my father had to call up to me to come down for my dinner . |
| 23 | He 'd remember me , too , because he would have wondered what percentage I had on him that entitled me to come down from her apartment in the early morning . |
| 24 | They were beings like Miach , a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest . |
| 25 | Like when a woman slowly unbuttoned her yellow clothes , let them fall down around her waist . |
| 26 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 27 | In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre . |
| 28 | See now what his power is , for the day when I sate down before Juballa I had no more than four loaves of bread , and now by God 's mercy I have won Valencia . |
| 29 | I regret the fact that the hon. Member for Livingston saw fit not to answer the challenge that I laid down to him , just as he has not answered any of the challenges that I have laid down to him today , and that he has also seen fit to put the hon. Lady , on her first outing today , into a rather difficult position . |
| 30 | You see , we 'd got such confidence that she told me that when he died , she said , ‘ He died in his bed here ’ , that we were in , you see ; and she said , ‘ I then closed his eyes and I laid down with him till the morning so that nobody should be disturbed . ’ |