Example sentences of "[verb] down on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her . |
| 2 | Right , sit down on the bed and give me your legs . ’ |
| 3 | I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round . |
| 4 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 5 | She sit down on the chair but she 'll want to stand up a little bit cause we got bins underneath and she wants to put her feet on the bins |
| 6 | Come on , sit down on the step . |
| 7 | Mandy rushed over , and made her sit down on the couch . |
| 8 | Have your partner sit down on the mat , extending one leg and flexing the other . |
| 9 | But Isabel had plenty of spirit , Guy reminded himself , ruthlessly stamping down on the protectiveness the sight of her always seemed to arouse in him . |
| 10 | You can buy those things that you push down on the top like that , and you |
| 11 | If we push down on the canvas by putting a heavy object on it we create a dent . |
| 12 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 13 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 14 | Corbett smiled and walked back to sit down on the stool while Father John bowed to Wishart and silently left the room . |
| 15 | I stumbled to the first landing before the recurring cramp forced me to sit down on the floor . |
| 16 | She debated whether to sit down on the carpet for a while but shook herself and rang the bell . |
| 17 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
| 18 | He led them to within thirty yards of the unsuspecting deer , then motioned for Joseph to sit down on the ground at the edge of the plain . |
| 19 | ‘ He made his way along the road until a colleague told him to sit down on the pavement . |
| 20 | Stepping back from the display cabinets , hoping to sit down on the window-seat , she made a false move and bumped into something cold . |
| 21 | On her ice cream round she lost her temper , bringing down on the head of the ringleader the entire tray of ice cream . |
| 22 | Ten Trekkies got down on the floor to play this , some still wearing Federation anoraks , which seemed to be cheating somewhat . |
| 23 | She got down on the floor and ran her arm under the bookcase . |
| 24 | And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were . |
| 25 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 26 | Everyone claps a little and Peter sits down on the drum stool . |
| 27 | When I stick my head round the door and tell Rachel I have to go out again , she sits down on the bed without a word . |
| 28 | John sits down on the bed and recites a mantra under his breath . |
| 29 | ‘ No , I think it would have been easier just to take his word for it that I 'd boobed , fallen down on the job . |
| 30 | Tilda appeared with a ball of oozing clay in her arms which she flung down on the table . |