Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks |
| 2 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 3 | Please sit down at the table . |
| 4 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 5 | And there 's another sort of things now that we do n't hear is when you sit down at the table to eat erm they 're probably the most the hostess would say now would be , Help yourself . |
| 6 | The temptation and the suspense novel , a book in which a high degree of identification both from intellectual curiosity and emotional involvement is necessary for the writer as much as the reader , is to catch hold of some intriguing initial situation , sit down at the typewriter and go racing ahead from there . |
| 7 | I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her . |
| 8 | Right , sit down on the bed and give me your legs . ’ |
| 9 | I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round . |
| 10 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 11 | She sit down on the chair but she 'll want to stand up a little bit cause we got bins underneath and she wants to put her feet on the bins |
| 12 | Come on , sit down on the step . |
| 13 | Mandy rushed over , and made her sit down on the couch . |
| 14 | Have your partner sit down on the mat , extending one leg and flexing the other . |
| 15 | For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there . |
| 16 | Its accountants sit down with the auditor for a day of conjuring tricks and , hey presto , £15m gets lost in a cloud of smoke , leaving a mere £7m to find . |
| 17 | Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen . |
| 18 | I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal . |
| 19 | ‘ Come and sit down in the bar , ’ says Mrs Bixman . |
| 20 | Judy , an elegant woman in her early 40s with a peaceful demeanour , bids us sit down in the verandah . |
| 21 | When you sit down in the examination room with the usual small table in front of you , the situation should be familiar and comfortable from the long practice you have carried out . |
| 22 | Sit down in the corner nice breakfast . |
| 23 | ‘ Sit down by the fire and tell me all about it . ’ |
| 24 | You sit down by the fire , you 're wet and cold . |
| 25 | But Isabel had plenty of spirit , Guy reminded himself , ruthlessly stamping down on the protectiveness the sight of her always seemed to arouse in him . |
| 26 | The main brain-boggler from this vantage point is without a doubt whether James Hetfield 's spittle will drip down through the metal grille as he stands above our heads . |
| 27 | My eyes shut , I could see that napkin fluttering down through the mushroom cloud . |
| 28 | 3 Push down with the hand on the elbow , forcing your fingers to travel further down your spine . |
| 29 | You can buy those things that you push down on the top like that , and you |
| 30 | If we push down on the canvas by putting a heavy object on it we create a dent . |