Example sentences of "[vb base] down [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When world leaders sit down to dinner at home they prefer simple fare , according to the people who cook for them . |
| 2 | Two o'clock — I then sit down in front of the television with a pen and piece of paper and watch the schools programme which I like because you can have a rest from writing and reading . |
| 3 | I wait until my husband 's doing the late shift , and I wait until the children have gone to bed , and I sit down in front of the television . |
| 4 | if you go into the room sit down in front of the typewriter and the exam begins , and you do it you could pass easy , well I 've done it and I 've passed ! |
| 5 | One of the latest siezures in Operation Gemini , the police crack down on crime in Gloucestershire . |
| 6 | Or once the partition walls are down , you can create your own flexible dividers , with bookcases , shelving units , screens or screen-like structures like trellis , or even Murphy beds that let down at night from what looks like a panelled screen . |
| 7 | But the symbolic period point is overstressed to the verge of comedy , when in the final scene of destruction the figures of Marianne with her red cap of Liberty , the skeleton Death with his scythe and the Angel of Justice are hastily let down in tableau from the flies . |
| 8 | But the symbolic period point is overstressed to the verge of comedy , when in the final scene of destruction the figures of Marianne with her red cap of Liberty , the skeleton Death with his scythe and the Angel of Justice are hastily let down in tableau from the flies . |
| 9 | As we read our participants ' accounts , the severity of retribution is to be understood against a background of the degree to which they feel let down in relation to their expectations of those they feel they should respect . |
| 10 | But the trousers were no ordinary trousers : they were whole-falls , that is , trousers with a flap that let down in front like a sailor 's . |
| 11 | I wo n't bore you all with the technical details ; suffice it to say that the alloy truss rod previously fitted to Warwick basses just is n't man enough for the job — a classic case of a nice design let down by choice of materials . |
| 12 | But thy silk twist let down from heav'n to me |
| 13 | When she had a missive for delivery the rainbow was a bridge let down from heaven for her to travel upon . |
| 14 | Jed left the expressway at the Baker Park exit and cut down through houses of clapperboard and dull red brick . |
| 15 | Presumably the programmers cut down on frills in order to cram it all into a single load , though I do n't know why they bothered — no-one will ever get past Level Ten anyway ! |
| 16 | Revenues break down into 70% from systems engineering , 11% expertise and training , 11% from software products , and 8% from consulting and system design . |
| 17 | A TERRIFIED youngster was chased and run down by teenagers on a motorcycle as he played with friends in a park . |
| 18 | The last few days passed horrendously quickly — except for the bus ride down to Delhi at 3am on the last day of March . |
| 19 | After Vorontseff had fallen off twice he was hoisted up by a grinning trooper and thrown face down in front of the saddle . |
| 20 | The streams of some hanging valleys drop down over waterfalls to the main valley . |
| 21 | Lie down with hands at either side of your head , knees bent and raised and ankles crossed . |
| 22 | Lie down with hands at either side of your head , knees bent and raised and ankles crossed . |
| 23 | While Jim Wells was in Castlewellan for the banned parade in June 1985 , he preferred to negotiate with the RUC rather than be arrested like Foster and Graham or , like Smyth , lie down in front of a Landrover . |
| 24 | I 'm beginning to feel that direct action is the only way forward like Earth First , who in Canada lie down in front of loggers and generally sabotage development . |
| 25 | Nell McCafferty , the Derry-born writer and civil rights activist , poignantly remembered family prayers from the 1950s : ‘ God send John a job ; God send Jackie and Rosaleen a house ; Holy Mother of God look down on Peggy in America and Leo in England ; Jesus and His Blessed Mother protect Mary that 's going out with a sailor . ' |
| 26 | The plan was so concise and symmetrical that its lines can still be traced today , especially if you look down on Aarau from a height . |
| 27 | It 's only when you are on the top floor and you look down on life on the bottom floor that everything down there looks smaller than normal . ’ |
| 28 | Its not so bad now either way , it was years ago always look down on people like that but not so much now |
| 29 | Either going or coming one should cross the Athos peninsula and look down into monasteries on the Holy Mountain that no female eye may otherwise see . |
| 30 | The River Aire , then purple with dye from the mills as it coursed under Leeds Bridge , began its journey as a pure , gushing stream tumbling cold and clear down through Airedale from Malham Cove — not far as the kestrel flies . |