Example sentences of "[verb] down [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 3 | Darren , 21 , said : ‘ The smoke was very dense , so I got down low on the floor and pushed the kitchen door open . |
| 4 | Calvin takes a look at Jerry , mumbles something inaudible and sits down heavily on the step with his back to all of us . |
| 5 | The big truck shuddered to a halt , spraying gravel from under its locked wheels , as Rocky tramped down hard on the brakes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The substance or substances were placed down either on an object in front of the horse or somewhere on the front of the horse himself . |
| 10 | What has happened because this problem has been recognised is that the police are having to go down there on a regular basis and actually stop people doing this stupid manoeuvre . |
| 11 | I 'll have to go down there on a Saturday , my mum said she 'd take me down there . |
| 12 | She hurried next door to get the spare one she always left with her neighbour , then let herself inside and sank down wearily on the bottom of the stairs . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose you think that your father and I have scrimped and saved to give you children a good education so that you can waste your time and money at the pictures , ’ said Mrs Mallory , pressing down fiercely on a handkerchief . |
| 14 | Probably the most historic and also the most photogenic is that of the counts of Kyburg , perched high above woodlands and looking down fiercely on the river Toss . |
| 15 | ‘ Mighty magic , ’ commented the barbarian , pushing down heavily on the complaining blade with a hand the size of a ham . |
| 16 | For a moment I felt better , then my face chanced to come alongside the face of a three-foot-high king in a crown — I 'd been pushing down hard on the bishop 's corpse memory , now he reared up again … |
| 17 | GERMANY 'S press came down firmly on the side of the Princess of Wales . |
| 18 | The jet , with one person on board , came down right on the Derbyshire/South Yorkshire border . |
| 19 | So , when on 8 May Acheson announced that the US would send economic and military aid to the French in Indo-China ( for Gaddis Smith , the turning point — ‘ the scales had swayed for three months and then came down hard on the side of France ) the French position was at least potentially desperate and one can not help asking whether there were any countries receiving military aid under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program , other than Vietnam , in which there were such powerful revolutionary forces and where a revolutionary war was already in progress . |
| 20 | ‘ Wayward , twisted psykers are hunted down ruthlessly on a host of worlds . |
| 21 | I knew what they had in mind , they knew my way of working , which cut down enormously on the number of meetings we needed to plan shows out . |
| 22 | Secondly , it 's very important for me , as the head of a record company , to research what 's going down well on the dancefloor ’ |
| 23 | The impression was reinforced by Elton squatting down comfortably on the front-stage light box mid-story . |
| 24 | So I said to them pop down there on the way home , check it out |
| 25 | Over the next five days , events behind the scenes moved at breakneck speed , although with Admiral Thomson keeping the lid screwed down tight on the newspapers , radio and newsreels , the British public had little to feed on except rumours , and snippets not to be trusted but disturbingly suggestive — gleaned from German broadcasts . |
| 26 | If one end of the comb is higher than the other , it can not do its job of pulling down evenly on the stitches . |
| 27 | The Ali Watch : how absurd that it would one day drop down here on a little hospital on Hilton Head Island , South Carolina . |
| 28 | She pressed down harder on the gas pedal , coaxing more speed from the car , trying to put more distance between herself and the maniac in the Audi , but whoever was driving the pursuing car had no intention of letting her get away . |
| 29 | ‘ Come on you bastard , ’ she shouted and pressed down hard on the gas . |
| 30 | His legs were bent , unintentional but lucky because they folded neatly under him and stopped his tail from slamming down hard on the tiles . |