Example sentences of "[vb base] down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just over two million of our pupils sit down to a knife-and-fork meal at midday . |
| 2 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 3 | On Saturday nights around 30 people sit down to a four-course SE Asian banquet . |
| 4 | Every Sunday the family get up early for an enormous American breakfast — pancakes , ham , waffles with maple syrup , and then later on in the afternoon they all sit down to an English roast . |
| 5 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 6 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 7 | Just wait until the last day , when you come , you sit down on the fucking stool and each leg goes like that ! |
| 8 | Basically , I just sit down with a little Pignose amp and a tape recorder and play all night . ’ |
| 9 | Thank you for your interest , comrade , sit down in the listening corner and I shall begin . |
| 10 | Over supper we sit down in the low evening sun and watch the hills change from one blue to another , to mauve , to grey , to black . |
| 11 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 12 | Back down in the secret gareden there 's still plenty to explore , including more tunnels — some of which are not empty … |
| 13 | The capes are famous for a confused and ugly swell , and peculiar lumps of wind that crash down from the coastal peaks of the Taurus Mountains . |
| 14 | Sweetman turned a furious smeared face at us , then drove his garish boat hard at Wavebreaker 's hull to gouge a long scratch down to the bare metal . |
| 15 | I persuaded them both to come out of the room the same way , as I had no key to the door , and took Heathcliff down into the warm servants ' kitchen with me , while Catherine returned to her guests and the dancing . |
| 16 | The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly as the marchers and their supporters wind down after a hard day . |
| 17 | Krakatoa is merely the first of a whole chain of active volcanoes which arc down through the Indonesian islands and round the Pacific to form what geologists call the Ring of Fire . |
| 18 | She thought of the dream she had sometimes in which she was leaning over a bridge and watching herself drown , watching herself slip down under the clear water and not giving a damn . |
| 19 | but the melt down of a cast-iron relationship |
| 20 | Head down to the local travel agent and check out the availability of sun-drenched spring breaks at resorts catering to families with small children ; |
| 21 | Dyson looked at old Eddy , head down behind the dusty newspaper files , nothing visible of him but his tousled white hair . |
| 22 | If you clamber down to the low water mark when the tide is receding ( the ‘ ebb ’ tide ) , you will find dry land appear before you and rivulets of water flowing out towards the sea . |
| 23 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 24 | The fireman will be another casualty of the modern steam age : his place in the cab will be taken by a computer which will monitor the coal feed closely , to keep smoke down to an absolute minimum . |
| 25 | ‘ Five hundred years ago , a tribe of barbarians from the north was ordered by their leader , Gorbrandt , to take to their ships , sail down through the Baltic and conquer Møn , the island they called ‘ The Rich Island ’ . ’ |
| 26 | As they approach London they let down through the shining white floor of cloud into a dull grey light . |
| 27 | She was badly let down by a married man — Irish , I think . ’ |
| 28 | But one senior officer told us they felt let down by a legal system which denies them the right to detain an offender who 's cost 400 police hours in just 6 months . |
| 29 | ‘ Close to Eden is a good looking film let down by a convoluted and complex plot in which nothing really happens . |
| 30 | Let down by a short battery life , about three hours . |