Example sentences of "[verb] down [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You sit down and wrap this towel round your neck . ’ |
| 2 | Before you take out a loan sit down and list all the money coming in and what you will have to pay out . |
| 3 | Sit down and sign that cheque , ’ he commanded , ‘ or you 'll be bloody sorry . ’ |
| 4 | Brenda 's " if you was to sit down an' 'ear that guy speak " . |
| 5 | Probably the best advice is to sit down and list all income as well as all expenditure — including variables like possible car maintenance bills , treats , clothes , savings for holidays — and then honestly look at what is left . |
| 6 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 7 | ‘ We have to sit down and consider that . |
| 8 | Once this trend for the relaxation of the 1970 legislation began , the EPA considered that the only way in which it could slow down or stop this erosion , short of a resurgence in the environmental movement , would be to show more flexibility in its administration of the Act , especially towards new industry . |
| 9 | Mention is made of how in the viewing of the mountains " … it is to be seen how the very naturall working of those flood falling from the height in winter stormes have broken down & worn such rifts & slitts in the rocks as hereby the dead leaders or mettall finnes or vaine have appeared unto us above ground which before were hid by the earth & stones formerly covring the rocks some 2 or 3 fathomes deep … " |
| 10 | ‘ Look , I 'm supposed to go down and do another five minutes of charm and chat with the ladies in the kitchen now they 've done their stuff . |
| 11 | And I said I 've bought a box of matches for him to go down and light this fire thinking you know he might need two or three matches at a time . |
| 12 | And they got to go down and get another one . |
| 13 | Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee |
| 14 | Nip down and get some |
| 15 | It was as if Ruth were truly Emma 's child and for some reason Rachaela had had to come down and witness this scene . |
| 16 | Wilkerson bent down and handed each one of us a big ice cream carton . |
| 17 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 18 | It will help if you lie down and have some very soft music playing . |
| 19 | Commander Briggs had counselled Blanche to calm down and accept more of the things in the police she could not change . |
| 20 | He climbed down and removed all his clothing except for his socks , which he left on in order to make a quick getaway . |
| 21 | Get down and do some paperwork . |
| 22 | I do n't , I do n't think dieting is the main thing , it 's just cutting down and getting more exercise |
| 23 | Slave masters strode through the crowds of men and women whipping them if they slowed down or showed any interest in the travellers . |
| 24 | can you go down and get that back from him ? |
| 25 | Do n't worry about it , we 'll go down and get some later on . |
| 26 | I 'm just gon na go down and get some eggs cos I forgotten them . |
| 27 | but er , but tomorrow I might go down and get some again you see , cos they were really nice |
| 28 | You 'll get dressed , like a good girl , and we 'll go down and spend another jolly night in the cellars . |
| 29 | and then other , like this morning I woke up about quarter to seven , well I 'd been awake a while but I thought I 'd came to at quarter to seven I went down and make some tea and having breakfast |
| 30 | I was very puzzled why she fell down and decided some plaster must have fallen on her . |