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Example sentences of "[vb base] down [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks
2	Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time .
3	The temptation and the suspense novel , a book in which a high degree of identification both from intellectual curiosity and emotional involvement is necessary for the writer as much as the reader , is to catch hold of some intriguing initial situation , sit down at the typewriter and go racing ahead from there .
4	Please sit down at the table .
5	There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too .
6	And there 's another sort of things now that we do n't hear is when you sit down at the table to eat erm they 're probably the most the hostess would say now would be , Help yourself .
7	Have your partner sit down on the mat , extending one leg and flexing the other .
8	I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round .
9	I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky .
10	Then lie or sit down on the nearest piece of furniture , try to keep warm and wait calmly for help to arrive .
11	I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her .
12	Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side .
13	Mandy rushed over , and made her sit down on the couch .
14	Right , sit down on the bed and give me your legs . ’
15	She sit down on the chair but she 'll want to stand up a little bit cause we got bins underneath and she wants to put her feet on the bins
16	Just wait until the last day , when you come , you sit down on the fucking stool and each leg goes like that !
17	Come on , sit down on the step .
18	For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there .
19	‘ We should get six top international players and a number of international referees and sit down with the law-makers so that all points of view are aired . ’
20	So you sit down with The Hook and ask him about what it was like in the '60s in London , when he was lionised by Van Morrison , The Animals , Peter Green and all the gut-bucket R&B bands , but he just laughs and says it was fun .
21	Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen .
22	Make tying laces into a great game : sit down with the shoes in front of you both and tie and untie them together .
23	Its accountants sit down with the auditor for a day of conjuring tricks and , hey presto , £15m gets lost in a cloud of smoke , leaving a mere £7m to find .
24	That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ?
25	I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal .
26	Judy , an elegant woman in her early 40s with a peaceful demeanour , bids us sit down in the verandah .
27	Over supper we sit down in the low evening sun and watch the hills change from one blue to another , to mauve , to grey , to black .
28	Thank you for your interest , comrade , sit down in the listening corner and I shall begin .
29	When you sit down in the examination room with the usual small table in front of you , the situation should be familiar and comfortable from the long practice you have carried out .
30	I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone .