Example sentences of "[verb] down in a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time …
2 Life becomes crazy when I 'm recording Birds Of A Feather so I tend to organise working lunches and sit down in a restaurant to get my fuel .
3 You 're welcome , ’ then went to the sink in the far corner of the kitchen to wash his hands , came back to the fireside to sit down in a chair to the right of the oven , and watched his wife putting out the meal .
4 To sit down in a cafe you had to buy a cup of tea .
5 Likeable , cordial , he sits down in a chair facing her husband and herself and proceeds to converse with them .
6 I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour .
7 We speak of a judgement in a particular case or of a rule laid down in a judgement as being undoubtedly according to law , but as being ‘ unfair ’ or ‘ unjust ’ or ‘ inequitable ’ .
8 The group , chaired by Judge Thomas Pigot , QC , a senior Old Bailey judge , recommends that the rule that children under seven or eight should not give evidence , laid down in a string of cases , should be abolished .
9 Rules laid down in a statute would be less flexible .
10 The structure of the economy and society can be broken down in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes .
11 FOR a thriller to really thrill there should be moments when you are gripping the edge of your seat wondering if the star is indeed going to go down in a hail of bullets — one more dead hero .
12 Driving down in a Glory ? ’
13 It was quite pointless having a runner who saw the whole thing as a social outing and had once even sat down in a kitchen and said she 'd just rest for a minute .
14 Miss Phillips 's performance is really a series of inappropriate costumes by Pierre Balmain and the actress wafts around in a lilac voile morning trouser suit , a black cocktail number , dresses up to resemble a wasp and dresses down in a riot of patchwork heliotrope , orange , purple , blue and green .
15 Ask him if he will wants to come down in a minute .
16 do n't go in Charlotte 's bedroom , alright , alright , they might have to come down in a minute if you want to go up , ah ?
17 The first step , therefore , is to write down in a list all of the data that you are given .
18 The awful thought that he might come wandering down in a daze and be seen , made her turn cold .
19 Came down in a tree and broke both his legs .
20 The four-seater Cessna came down in a wood near Hambledon in Buckinghamshire spreading wreckage over a wide area .
21 The four-seater Cessna came down in a wood near Hambledon in Buckinghamshire spreading wreckage over a wide area .
22 Then she told her sister , who came down in a taxi and I was talking to a woman who would not get off the phone .
23 Only two suffered injuries as the craft came down in a field at Pirbright , Surrey .
24 Fortunately it did n't go off , but it made a hell of a mess , and I came down in a shell-hole just outside our wire . ’
25 And despite selling striker Teddy Sheringham to Tottenham last week for £2.1m , Forest are still busy searching the market for a replacement after being turned down in a £1.5m move for Arsenal 's Alan Smith .
26 Manville flopped down in a chair without being asked .
27 As she flopped down in a corner seat , Constance looked at the man pushing her case on to the rack opposite .
28 Tired and exhausted mentally and physically ; break down in a sweat and become excited and irritable .
29 Donegal would n't fancy meeting Down in an Ulster final . ’
30 Welcome back:An RAF war hero is about to return to Belgium to commemorate his escape from the Nazis after being shot down in a bomber .
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