Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 2 | ‘ The Mediterranean peoples rarely sit down to dinner much before nine . ’ |
| 3 | Throughout the months preceding the launching I had paid numerous visits to Brooke Marine yard , either calling there in Venturous with the training crews , or latterly driving down from my home in Felixstowe , conveniently situated a mere forty miles up the coast . |
| 4 | ‘ I was all right walking down to the pit until I met the group of supporters then I had to crack . ’ |
| 5 | After slowly cooling down to 37°C a complete restriction was performed with Xba I ( 2 h , 5 U , Gibco BRL ) . |
| 6 | The track eventually drops down to a road . |
| 7 | She felt such a clown , standing before them with that vulgar object between her open legs , but she slowly sank down towards the disgusting dildo and manipulated her thighs until the blunt tip was nudging at the portals of her reluctant orifice . |
| 8 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 9 | In the past , so-called biodegradable plastics have been viewed as fraudulent by environmentalists , as they have only broken down into smaller pieces . |
| 10 | So we 're going to keep we 're going to try and keep our costs on this obviously stripped down to an absolute minimum . |
| 11 | Most of them would not go on , but three were brave enough to go down into the valley . |
| 12 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 13 | Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances . |
| 14 | She could almost imagine the door opening and Isabelle coming in to sit down at the dressing-table with its pretty antique tortoiseshell and silver toilet set , humming softly as she loved to do . |
| 15 | I wanted only to go down to the summer-house and watch the leaves falling until night fell with them . |
| 16 | Sweetman turned a furious smeared face at us , then drove his garish boat hard at Wavebreaker 's hull to gouge a long scratch down to the bare metal . |
| 17 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 18 | We got in to drive down to the medina . |
| 19 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 20 | She was reassured when he suddenly looked down at her and winked appreciatively . |
| 21 | It was such a shock to feel his animosity directed so unwaveringly towards her ; even though , after last night , she could have been prepared for something , she could only gape down at him . |
| 22 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 23 | ‘ Howard is a hard-liner who has been put in to bear down on us . |
| 24 | But you 'd do better to come down with me and make the long trip round . ’ |
| 25 | The chief motive which would naturally encourage Christian thinkers to look for such an alternative is that Lessing 's horizon necessarily scales down to merely relative and passing significance the events on which Christian faith itself depends — the history recorded and interpreted in the Bible , and in particular that of Jesus himself . |
| 26 | ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
| 27 | Jackie agreed , so I asked him why constructors like Mayer and Ecclestone so looked down on drivers . |
| 28 | It is held by Moslems to contain all the essentials of their belief , and to be a collection of passages of direct revelation uttered by Mohammed ( although not all written down during his lifetime ) . |
| 29 | In it he boasts of his gifts to charity , all written down in his little black book : |
| 30 | When she was in her room , when The Bar was closed , she had a recurring fantasy in which Boy 's black hair was long enough to reach down to his waist . |