Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well done , excellent , erm , as you can see , in some ways quite a complex er , issue , and it 's one of those things really , I think to fully understand this , you got to sit down with a pencil and paper and work it through yourself . |
| 2 | Only that she did n't want to go down to the sea again . ’ |
| 3 | You do n't want to go down to the slides yet ? |
| 4 | Some of these puzzles , Jim , must 've fallen down behind the erm fermenting bin . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was breathless with the effort of clinging precariously to the limited footholds and it was time , he decided , to risk climbing down to the ground . |
| 7 | now if I want to go down to the sea front well I 'll shall get a taxi and , and sha n't be worrying where me next meals coming from because I 've saved it , so , so that 's , that 's no worry , I was saying to Arthur if we went to Butlins well it would take all we had , because it , we could n't go to Butlins under three hundred pounds for two of us , we could n't go anywhere else , if we go to Blackpool , our , our said to , to , to dad , I , I would like to pop to , er I do n't think we will do because , er , the hassle for your dad , but er , I 'd like to go and see aunty Annie , but I do n't want to go to Nelson to do it |
| 8 | It may also be useful in case the patient becomes unexpectedly tired , and needs to sit down for a moment . |
| 9 | In hospitals the system has broken down under the pressure of numbers and new teaching methods are only slowly being found , but teaching in general practice has remained close to the tradition in which older generations of doctors learnt their skills . |
| 10 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 11 | Danny has to go down on the floor , put his hands on hips and go , evening all ! |
| 12 | I do n't think it needs to go down under the barrier act . |
| 13 | He loves to go down to the factory floor and see the products being made . |
| 14 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 15 | Under the new policy , anyone working on the twelfth floor will need to go down to the first floor to clock out , to the fourth floor to find a smoking room , down to the first to clock on again and back to the twelfth to carry on working . |
| 16 | When we finally spill outside , Rachel says she wants to go down to the beach again . |
| 17 | In his home town , Mr Edwards is a noted singer and says that he wants to go down in the programme as performing a selection of songs from Carousel and also Holy City . |
| 18 | SOONER than anyone expected , the mayoral contest in New York has shaken down into a re-run of the 1989 race between David Dinkins , now the incumbent , and Rudolph Giuliani , his Republican rival . |
| 19 | Want to come down to the canteen ? |
| 20 | and go out and that , if you want to come down for a couple of days . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When the Gruagach had come storming down from the Northern Wastes and attacked Tara and stolen away the Wolfking 's son , Tara 's heir , the people of the half-world of the forest had vanished , afraid and timid . |
| 23 | Landforms developed in relation to the earlier and higher base level are abandoned as erosion starts to work down to the new base level . |
| 24 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 25 | This was used by Bourgeois and Certon for Ps. 36 and Goudimel for Ps. 68 , ‘ Que Dieu se montre seulement ’ , but has come down through the centuries as a hymn to Sebaldus Heyden 's words ‘ O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross ’ . |
| 26 | This group is remarkable not only for the quality of its work , but also for the fact that no individual has ever been known by name ; only the corporate identity has come down across the years . |
| 27 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 28 | Emulating its action against Hirac Inc in the US , Sparc International , the evangelising supporters group for Sun Microsystems Inc 's RISC has come down like a ton of bricks on a small UK start-up trying to carve a living out of the Sparc-compatible space . |
| 29 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 30 | Ring her up , see if she wants to come down for a drink . |