Example sentences of "[to-vb] down for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 2 | It may also be useful in case the patient becomes unexpectedly tired , and needs to sit down for a moment . |
| 3 | You have to sit down for a minute — |
| 4 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 5 | I needed to sit down for a minute . |
| 6 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 7 | Because when you do run across the road , you get to the other side , and you 're thinking , good gracious , that was a close shave , I 'll have to sit down for a minute , I think I 'll have a cup of coffee or something . |
| 8 | so we had to sit down for a while . |
| 9 | Spike , of course , kept saying " He wants us to go down for a drink . " |
| 10 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 11 | Maurice was deserted , Maurice having been invited , as he quite often was , to go down for the day to Brighton . |
| 12 | We are able to stand down for a while in the evening to get some sleep , write letters , play darts or watch TV . |
| 13 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 14 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 15 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 16 | and go out and that , if you want to come down for a couple of days . |
| 17 | Ring her up , see if she wants to come down for a drink . |
| 18 | ‘ Tell you what , see if you can persuade him to come down for an X-ray . |
| 19 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 20 | There are a few of us ( 3 at mo — myself , a mate and Steve Walsh ) who want to come down for the Oxford match from Durham/Newcastle . |
| 21 | Carew was about to reach down for the attaché case resting against the leg of the chair when Harrison leaned forward towards him , his face contorted with bitterness and dislike . |
| 22 | If he had really only been looking for shelter and a place to doss down for the night , why look further than this ? |
| 23 | Had they been able to put down for a minute our in-depth features on Geraldo , Victor Sylvester and some accordions , they might have seen something half-decent on the box . |
| 24 | ‘ If I wanted to settle down for a quiet read I 'd prefer the Kensington public library . |
| 25 | His thoughts sway constantly between the desire to go on and the desire to settle down for a relaxed evening with a book in the secure knowledge that he wo n't have to go on . |
| 26 | In the old days before the distracting influences of radio and television , the fixed routine of the adult inhabitants after the day 's work was done was to settle down for an evening 's knitting , a craft both men and women practised assiduously , on the outside galleries in summer and by candlelight in front of a peat fire in winter . |
| 27 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
| 28 | ‘ I just need to lie down for a while . |
| 29 | At one point he had to slow down for a distance of several miles . |
| 30 | He is the only pianist I have ever heard who does not make Balakirev 's Islamey sound clumsy in places , who does not need to slow down for the middle section of Liszt 's Rhapsodie espagnole , and who can play repeated notes faster than a machine-gun can shoot bullets . |