Example sentences of "[to-vb] down at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Fry went straight to the kitchen , told us to sit down at the table , opened the oven ( split-level cooker , of course ) and got out a huge pot . |
| 2 | Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready . |
| 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 | ‘ I see nothing to celebrate , ’ said Charlotte Feaver , the first to sit down at the table despite what lay upon it . |
| 5 | If we were gon na say , right , this only is gon na apply to mega- projects , tt and therefore it would be appropriate for the project coordinator to be the person to sit down at the start of the job , when he 's agreeing the remit with the client , when he 's developing the erm tt er who 's doing what within the functions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You get a nice space to sit down at the table |
| 8 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 9 | Glen Ball , the Neath coach and team manager , is to stand down at the end of the season . |
| 10 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 11 | There 's no way I can manage to come down at the moment . ’ |
| 12 | You need to set down at the start what you expect to achieve . |
| 13 | I have n't enjoyed the last two years down there , but erm as I say , let's stick our necks out and say ‘ United are going to win down at the County ground ’ . |
| 14 | Ellie said nothing , deciding to stare down at the polished wood floor instead . |
| 15 | When he craned to stare down at the crowds in the great square below the palace , his head moved so that it rested upon the parapet like a decoration . |
| 16 | Moving back to the bridge , she halted for a moment to stare down at the sluggish water , and the wavering reflection thrown back at her made her feel like weeping forever . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , I most certainly do ! ’ he told her before turning back to stare down at the flushed features of his wife . |
| 18 | She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and went over to the window to look down at the courtyard . |
| 19 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 20 | He had , as Dalgliesh knew , grudgingly respected Kate 's ability to look down at the butchered bodies in St Matthew 's vestry and not be sick , but he had n't liked her the better for it . |
| 21 | Sharpe stepped a pace forward to look down at the map . |
| 22 | Alexei seemed to look down at the folder in his hand . |
| 23 | ‘ Is it still light enough to work ? ’ asked Merymose , standing , and walking across to the doctor to look down at the body . |
| 24 | They 're very wide ranging , and if er , Chair , if members would , would just like to look down at the list of er , options , without going through er , each one individually , but they do range from er , work with er former cottage hospitals , er , front room day care , the further development of home care cooperatives , work er , for people who er , have spinal injuries , who have intake , and er , an interpreter service for , for people who have a hearing loss , and particularly er , helping er , the Shropshire Disability Consortium to set up an interpreting service in the county . |
| 25 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
| 26 | The Council of the Zoological Society of London had planned to shut down at the end of September . |
| 27 | Their television colleagues were more patrician , only occasionally deigning to nod down at the page and scribble the time of an important section of Blanche 's statement . |
| 28 | I asked Danny ( Knight ) to put down at the first chance after crossing back over the Channel , and he did ’ . |
| 29 | The options are a high ladder on the right side of the lock , a point where the stone wall has been damaged ( presumably by a vessel failing to slow down at the junction ) or a paddle up the River Aire to find a point where the bank is lower . |
| 30 | Since many negotiations seem to break down at the implementation stage it is often worth making a prior commitment to monitor progress jointly and to meet again shortly after implementation is supposed to start . |