Example sentences of "[verb] down [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I take my jacket off again and sit down to look through the War files … |
| 2 | He will implement procedures laid down to comply with the Company 's duty of care and will liaise with the Group Environmental Manager on such issues . |
| 3 | The waves were crashing down rising into the air , then crashing against the water below , spreading the beach with a white spray . |
| 4 | Swam down to sniff at the trembling . |
| 5 | Staring at him worriedly , she slowly sank down to sit on the edge of the bed . |
| 6 | In nightclubs and pop promo videos , it 's as if the banshees have come down screaming from the catwalk , staggering in their stilettos under the weight of their Max Factor cosmetics and costume jewellery . |
| 7 | He bent down to stare at the floor . |
| 8 | After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human . |
| 9 | Oh no , Jinny thought as he bent down to fiddle with the controls of the video recorder . |
| 10 | Diana and Charles stooped down to search through the clothes . |
| 11 | Go right and push the crate onto the button , go up on the lift and to the left , push the crate off the edge of the platform , go up on the lift and right , climb up six platforms and push the crate left , fall left and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , jump onto the ledges on the wall and go up , go right , up , left , up , push the crate right , fall down , push the crate right into the button , go right and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , drop down to the stationary lift , go left then up , push the crate down , right , right , left , right and right onto the button . |
| 12 | Go right and push the crate onto the button , go up on the lift and to the left , push the crate off the edge of the platform , go up on the lift and right , climb up six platforms and push the crate left , fall left and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , jump onto the ledges on the wall and go up , go right , up , left , up , push the crate right , fall down , push the crate right into the button , go right and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , drop down to the stationary lift , go left then up , push the crate down , right , right , left , right and right onto the button . |
| 13 | At the top of the shaft , push the crate right onto the switch , go right and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , push the next crate right onto the button , then go along the next conveyor belt . |
| 14 | In cricket they used to put her at ‘ long leg ’ where the ball hardly ever penetrated , and she would take a book and lie down to read in the long grass . |
| 15 | Emily was being handed down to stand before the light-filled doorway of the Assembly Rooms and she took a deep breath of anticipation , this was her night , the night she was to be accepted as an adult and she would make the most of it . |
| 16 | and I I was rushing down to get to the stair . |
| 17 | He would turn his back on him while he was talking , or look down smiling into the mouthpiece . |
| 18 | The first pilots to send Luftwaffe bombers spiralling down to crash into the sea were boys , auxiliary pilots who until a few months before had been flying antiquated Gloster Gladiators . |
| 19 | Chesapeake Bay blue crabs , among nature 's hardiest creatures , have been observed dancing with death along the bottom ; they hover just above the anoxic zone , dart down to forage along the bottom , then come up for ‘ air ’ to the oxygenated mid-depths . |
| 20 | She had showered and put on a tracksuit , having been called down to help in the kitchen before getting into something more elegant . |
| 21 | The terrier allowed himself to be dragged down to lie on the blankets , and Theda was able to see her new mistress in the light afforded by a lamp on her bedside table and a set of two candelabra resting on a nearby chest of drawers . |
| 22 | Uncle Mick found it difficult getting down to kneel for the Consecration . |
| 23 | He had looked so utterly contented then , surveying his growing flock , his flock , not just the flock he had care of , but his own , Abbott 's sheep driven down to market on the Isle of Bute by his men , shepherds in his employ . |
| 24 | Filmmakers settled down to live with the Americans , having decided against launching any further substantial challenges on their home turf . |
| 25 | I settled down to wait in the passageway between the garage and the house where I was a little protected from the inclemency of the weather and whence I was eventually plucked by the constabulary . |
| 26 | The King assured Baldwin that he never drank before seven in the evening and settled down to listen to the lecture that he knew was coming . |
| 27 | He found a seat and settled down to listen to the opening speaker in the first of the day 's debates . |
| 28 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |
| 29 | Two cuckoos flew down to settle on the wire fence . |
| 30 | Jack recently told us the plot of a 1951 Jane Wyman movie called The Blue Veil and we both broke down sobbing at the same point of the story and sobbed for minutes . |