Example sentences of "[verb] down [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down here in the absolute silence with my reflection , in a sort of state of mystery . |
| 2 | When I switch on , I want you to go down the steps , sit down quietly on the floor by the end of the nozzle … and I want you to apologise . |
| 3 | Then clutching his suitcase , he tottered down on to the platform . |
| 4 | He stood for a minute or so gazing down expressionlessly at the pale , bloodless face of the Prophet . |
| 5 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 6 | If it 's appropriate for him to sit down there with the project manager , then we have n't got a problem . |
| 7 | Now one of the most important things that we 've established erm is that er you need to sit down still with the secretary of the club and say right now you 've got this list of businesses tell me more about them . |
| 8 | Darren , 21 , said : ‘ The smoke was very dense , so I got down low on the floor and pushed the kitchen door open . |
| 9 | Calvin takes a look at Jerry , mumbles something inaudible and sits down heavily on the step with his back to all of us . |
| 10 | He swooped down on to the grass and took stance by it . |
| 11 | The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) . |
| 12 | The big truck shuddered to a halt , spraying gravel from under its locked wheels , as Rocky tramped down hard on the brakes . |
| 13 | The statues came tumbling down all over the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | At the moment he 'd still have time to drive down on to the autobahn — providing the freezing fog came no closer . |
| 15 | Er other thing , and they lived down there opposite the garage , that was the electricity board house then . |
| 16 | Passengers poked their heads out of the doors like rabbits testing the wind and , deciding it was safe , hopped down on to the station platform where a sign read : " Cook , Queen of the Nullarbor . |
| 17 | In any case , sparks were riding the breeze and touching down far across the river in hidden gardens and remote rickyards . |
| 18 | A cowboy was out on the range when he came across an Indian with his ear pressed down hard against the trail . |
| 19 | When pressed down half-way , at which point it can be caught in a notch , the note is raised a semitone ; when pressed down farther to the second notch the note is raised another semitone . |
| 20 | He speaks English in a curious way , that improbable Dutch-accent tongue slapping down hard on the vowels , like shoe leather on a dry pavement . |
| 21 | He heard a gasp from the crowd of people gathered below , he seemed to hang forever in mid-air and then , miraculously , he was crashing down on to the opposite roof . |
| 22 | Unit costs may be broken down further into the amount spent on teachers , books and equipment , ancillary staff , transport , and so on . |
| 23 | As the train slows down considerably on the bend , look out beyond the Castoff Carpet Centre ( formerly Watley Baptist Chapel ) over the spire of Saint Greavsies and you may be able to spot the rusty corrugated sheeting , glistening muddily in the sunlight , that makes up the ground 's perimeter fencing . |
| 24 | The rate of depreciation slows down significantly in the second and third years but still runs at around 20 per cent a year . |
| 25 | Mr Gandhi has an election coming up and a big one-day cricket tournament not only goes down well with the electorate , but also goes a long way towards providing a short-term solution to the unemployment problem . |
| 26 | And Black goes down theatrically on the edge of the box and nothing has been given and Gemmell took a chance then he er overplayed his protest to the referee . |
| 27 | Huy 's job was to tamp this second layer down on to the first . |
| 28 | She would n't stay down here in the country until the wedding . |
| 29 | The new format certainly appeared to go down well with the packed crowd . |
| 30 | I had to go down there for the preview and then go down and bid . |