Example sentences of "[verb] down in a [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Rules laid down in a statute would be less flexible . |
| 9 | The structure of the economy and society can be broken down in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Driving down in a Glory ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Ask him if he will wants to come down in a minute . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | The first step , therefore , is to write down in a list all of the data that you are given . |
| 17 | The awful thought that he might come wandering down in a daze and be seen , made her turn cold . |
| 18 | Came down in a tree and broke both his legs . |
| 19 | The four-seater Cessna came down in a wood near Hambledon in Buckinghamshire spreading wreckage over a wide area . |
| 20 | The four-seater Cessna came down in a wood near Hambledon in Buckinghamshire spreading wreckage over a wide area . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Only two suffered injuries as the craft came down in a field at Pirbright , Surrey . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Manville flopped down in a chair without being asked . |
| 25 | As she flopped down in a corner seat , Constance looked at the man pushing her case on to the rack opposite . |
| 26 | Tired and exhausted mentally and physically ; break down in a sweat and become excited and irritable . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | After dropping out of RADA he joined the RAF in the war , was shot down in a bombing mission over Denmark and spent three years in a Polish PoW camp . |
| 30 | I 've got one friend who has written down in a diary every person he 's ever re arrested , I do n't do that , I just , I , I ca n't be bothered to write it all down . |