Example sentences of "[verb] down [adv] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's always a bad moment , Howard knows , after the porter 's unlocked your room , switched everything on , drawn the curtains , and gone away again with a huge tip because you had only a folder of fresh banknotes in your pocket , when you sit down helplessly and think , well , here we are , this is it , I 've arrived . |
| 2 | Come and sit down there and do it with Mummy . |
| 3 | Having looked at all the options , sit down together and decide what to go for . |
| 4 | Sit down together and talk honestly about what 's happened , what it could involve in practical terms , what you 'll probably all have to do without . |
| 5 | We then all sit down together and discuss these various options over and over again until the board has reached a position of understanding of where in broad terms we think the strategy of the individual business should fit . |
| 6 | ‘ When you sit down afterwards and look at all the training you 've done and all the sacrifices you 've made and you do n't get a medal it 's pretty shattering . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Let's do as Sarella suggests and sit down calmly and listen to what each of us has to say . ’ |
| 8 | Surely we 've got time to sit down somewhere and have a coffee … ? ’ |
| 9 | Eliot saw the point , and asked me to sit down forthwith and draft a synopsis . |
| 10 | Robbie would have liked to sit down too and have somebody make her a drink . |
| 11 | On the other hand it may represent a genuine attempt by specialists in related subjects to sit down together and plan a programme which allows for separate activities but suggests common themes and provides examples of integrated lessons as in the Nigerian Cultural and Creative Art syllabus . |
| 12 | We , we do find it as a , as a group very difficult to organise ourselves and for us to have some time to sit down together and feed off one another and talk about it so this is quite , that 's quite hopeful , and I think that does show erm , something the same as er , I 'm sure Jack would say the same thing , like here we are , you know , we 've got all the incoming calls , we 've got all the other stuff to do , and what we 're actually doing when we 're trying to make appointments and so on is we , we fit it in , because we 're half way through |
| 13 | However , we now have an opportunity to show that Europe can address European problems and that we will intervene in a way that will give the people of Yugoslavia the opportunity to sit down together and find a peaceful solution to the problems . |
| 14 | The Americans expected it and so it prepared them to sit down quietly and listen to speech . |
| 15 | If it strikes you this way , let me remind you that Peter 's particular values are not the point at issue , and invite you to sit down quietly and compose your own , very different equivalent . |
| 16 | You do n't want to be the one who tells your boss that er a production line has broken down again or y'know that they 've failed to meet their sales targets for the third month running , whatever it is , okay ? |
| 17 | Her camp confirms the lengths to which Kylie is prepared to go to maintain the environment-friendly campaign and reveals she REFUSES to handle everyday plastics , because they can not be broken down naturally and pose a threat to the habitat . |
| 18 | As soon as she realised what had happened she had jumped down guiltily and run home . |
| 19 | In view of Fen 's objections to her presence , should she stay down here and keep a low profile , or should she risk going up on deck ? |
| 20 | properly you 've to go down round and see about it . |
| 21 | erm , but actually near the erm near the bridge the the large roundabout before you go over the Gateshead bridge erm underneath that there 's a subway and what have you there 's shops in there , there 's a little shop in there that th that used to do these rolls and beautiful rolls , any bread you wanted , any filling you wanted you know they have vast variety of different fillings you know , and it was all there in these erm show cases , and we used to go down there and get a sandwich , take it back to the place where we was you know , this conference centre and erm it was great and then course when we got back |
| 22 | He 'd know that someone would have to go down there and recover the body and it could easily have been spotted . |
| 23 | cos I we use to have to go down there and well at least our blokes use to go down there and do a picket |
| 24 | If I , if you wanted to go down there and scrub the van out , you go and scrub it out . |
| 25 | ‘ After chapel we used always to go down there and watch them battle it out , ’ he says . |
| 26 | ‘ He used to go down there and stand and look at the frieze Bulkeley was carving ; the one that will surmount the cart and later be hung in the chantry chapel at the other end of this house . |
| 27 | We some special policemen to go down there and open these gates , and of course , you can just imagine that the policemen who came into Ipswich , they were pretty rough in their dealing with the strikers . |
| 28 | Whether the Council I , I personally would be quite keen to go down there and see A , and we 'd need permission of the land owners , to do this , to see where the link could go across , you know , the best position , so that we , and I believe this is what Councillor is saying , so that we can actually come forward and maybe this ought to be a meeting with the Amenities Committee , maybe the Ramblers and bear in mind as I say again I hate to do these things and the land owner think we 're steamrollering 'em into something without their knowledge . |
| 29 | But I would very much , with the land owners , like to go down there and see and , and then try and negotiate a possibility for right of way across |
| 30 | He had been debating whether to go down there or get in touch with the record office of the ATS when , returning one day from an unsuccessful interview for a job with a theatrical agent , he had happened to bump into Eleanor Fuller in Piccadilly . |