Example sentences of "[vb base] down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this season we 'll be cheering louder than ever for our three teams … in the new first division we 've got Oxford United … they 've new owners and new heart after escaping relegation … we 've first division football at the County ground as well … where style and skill have always been swindon town 's hallmarks … this time around they 're hoping for strength too … in division three Hereford United have been rebuilding … they 're going continental with a player-coach instead of a manager … so for the best season ticket sit down for Central South … . |
| 2 | Just sit down for ten minutes . |
| 3 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 4 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 5 | Alright , sit down for three minutes . |
| 6 | Just sit down for few minutes , you are probably worth more than you think . |
| 7 | Most conductors just sit down at that point and , beyond making sure that the orchestra kept up with the stage , leave the music to its own devices . |
| 8 | I sit down at this desk with a ledger . |
| 9 | Now again if you take a good look round the retired people in town there is , you just sit down on one of those benches in town and watch people for a bit , and you 'll see that a lot of them are deteriorating physically and that is making them , making it difficult for them to get about socially , shopping- wise and so on . |
| 10 | ‘ Sit down on that not very comfortable stool , and listen to what I have to say regarding your future , if you choose to accept it . |
| 11 | Now in fact that 's not what we like our stewards to do , what we like our stewards to do is actually to help people to enjoy themselves , to help people to erm to enjoy the house and to sit on things and and and actually say , no please sit down on that if you like to , it 's perfectly alright , that 's what it 's for . |
| 12 | BELVILLE : [ angrily ] Pamela , pray sit down with these good neighbours . |
| 13 | There 's still a couple of beat up chairs there and I sit down in one of them . |
| 14 | It is easier to keep them buried , push the feelings back down with stiffened muscles , joints and tension headaches . |
| 15 | The riddle of the up-and-down interest rates — back down to 10 per cent yesterday . |
| 16 | crack down on inhumane rearing of livestock , particularly poultry , pigs and dairy herds . |
| 17 | Syrian troops allegedly crack down on pro-Iraqi demonstrators in eastern Syria . |
| 18 | To maintain high gain down to zero frequency , the amplifier is directly coupled and to overcome the resulting problem of distinguishing between real and pseudo signals , due to , for example , bias or thermal variations , differential circuit techniques are adopted . |
| 19 | I did , however , manage to get the doctors and dentists award down to 6 per cent . |
| 20 | Nicolas Tredell has said of some New Accents contributors , ‘ despite their ostensible Gallic sympathies , they crash down on French jouissance like a ceiling-full of cold showers . ’ |
| 21 | After 400 yds , just before ridge rises , bear half left down off ridge : soon lake and outdoor centre passed at start of walk are seen below — make down for right-hand end of lake . |
| 22 | Kneel down to one side of your partner ( or stand if you are using a massage couch ) . |
| 23 | The ailerons droop down to fifteen degrees with the flaps to form full-span trailing-edge high-lift devices . |
| 24 | You trot down like this . |
| 25 | Rub down with abrasive paper then degrease the surface with white spirit . |
| 26 | The company seems to have been forgiven for its oil spill in the Mersey estuary in 1989 ; it came third in ‘ community and environmental responsibility ’ , only one place down from last time . |
| 27 | Press the rice into the tin , cover it with foil and press down on all sides until it is compressed . |
| 28 | Afterwards , warm down for 20 to 25 minutes . |
| 29 | Again , warm up for 20 to 25 minutes , do your repeats and warm down for 20 to 25 minutes . |
| 30 | " And let it be said , " Harry went on , " now we 're talking straight , that Miss Jennifer here can forget all the Romish ideas she was fed on down at Roscarrock Hall and start eating Protestant pie , which she 'll find suits a Cornish stomach a sight better than all that hocus-pocus-nomminy-domminy rubbish they peddle down at Holy Joe 's . |