Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | It may also be useful in case the patient becomes unexpectedly tired , and needs to sit down for a moment . |
| 7 | Danny has to go down on the floor , put his hands on hips and go , evening all ! |
| 8 | I do n't think it needs to go down under the barrier act . |
| 9 | He loves to go down to the factory floor and see the products being made . |
| 10 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When we finally spill outside , Rachel says she wants to go down to the beach again . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Want to come down to the canteen ? |
| 15 | and go out and that , if you want to come down for a couple of days . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Landforms developed in relation to the earlier and higher base level are abandoned as erosion starts to work down to the new base level . |
| 18 | Ring her up , see if she wants to come down for a drink . |
| 19 | Ask him if he will wants to come down in a minute . |
| 20 | A programme to clear the ground of weeds and leave the soil fit to rake down into a seed bed is simple to devise . |
| 21 | Two years ago he brought in a Commons Bill ( which , sadly , failed ) to try to clamp down on the boy racers . |
| 22 | Many of East Germany 's energy-efficient industries are expected to shut down in the aftermath of the country 's reunification . |
| 23 | On the following day , however , a presidential commission investigating the role of the security forces during the November 1989 revolution published findings implicating Vacek , at that time Army Chief of Staff and First Deputy Defence Minister , in preparations by the Army high command to clamp down against the demonstrations which ultimately had overthrown the communist regime . |
| 24 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 25 | They were now expected to settle down with the very people with whom they had been fighting and who had been responsible for killing some of their comrades-in-arms . |
| 26 | Conditions are expected to settle down by the middle of next week . |
| 27 | On the Monday I tried to settle down to a meeting at Alexander Fleming House ( the DHSS 's headquarters at the Elephant and Castle ) with Tony Newton who had joined the department as Parliamentary Secretary for Social Security . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The journalists claim in ‘ Ambush : The War Between The SAS and the IRA ’ that the SAS man drove a lorry identical to the ex-UDR man 's and pretended to break down on a lonely Tyrone road . |
| 30 | ‘ We are interested in serious-minded people who want to get down to the ins and outs of driving a steam locomotive — filth , heat , sweat and all . ’ |