Example sentences of "[vb base] down in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal . |
| 2 | ‘ Come and sit down in the bar , ’ says Mrs Bixman . |
| 3 | Judy , an elegant woman in her early 40s with a peaceful demeanour , bids us sit down in the verandah . |
| 4 | When you sit down in the examination room with the usual small table in front of you , the situation should be familiar and comfortable from the long practice you have carried out . |
| 5 | Sit down in the corner nice breakfast . |
| 6 | ‘ And we all converge down in the meadow where the skirmishing will take place . |
| 7 | Back down in the valley waited Frau Von Diesel , raven-haired , exotic wife of the inn-keeper . |
| 8 | Many parents and teachers back down in the face of a massive tantrum . |
| 9 | Also give yourself a good rub down in the shower or bath with their Body Sea Scrub Bar , £3.95 . |
| 10 | Then again they would just stand there , or squat down in the shade of a sand hill , their eyes fixed on the two endless parallels , following them out until they joined and lost themselves in the bush . |
| 11 | Further important subsurface information comes from the several boreholes put down in the search for coal by the Department of Commerce on the advice of the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | They receive a child who has been badly let down in the past , who has to learn , painfully , how to care and trust again . |
| 13 | But this good control , plus the fine grip and limited body roll , are badly let down in the driver appeal stakes by the steering . |
| 14 | If you break down in the tunnel and you require assistance , the fireman takes from the driver a Wrong Line Order , colour green , and walks to the signal box , putting down three detonators as a guide when he pilots the Break Down on the wrong line to the train . |
| 15 | It forms when chlorine-containing compounds such as CFCs break down in the stratosphere and then it triggers photochemical chain reactions that can destroy as many as 100000 molecules of ozone per molecule of ClO . |
| 16 | These military and familial idealised images of cooperation and conflict , then , break down in the face of current realities so there has to be another metaphor which can both explain and inform behaviour when conflicts or interests arise between management and work force . |
| 17 | But face down in the middle of the floor there lay the body of a man . |
| 18 | Face down in the middle of the floor there lay the body of a man . |
| 19 | For another team , more dangerous company appeared when the local fishing fleet came out , and the paddlers bent over , face down in the canoe , keeping her stern-on to the newcomers by deft tweaks of the paddles as they drifted less than 30 yards from two boats . |
| 20 | ‘ Landing face down in the bottom of a boat would hardly be the way to win the heart of the woman you love . |
| 21 | On the page opposite there is a cartoon of Pissed dressed up in a suit lying face down in the gutter clutching a bottle of lager , and Mickey Aspel coming out from under a manhole cover saying ‘ George Best ! |
| 22 | Anything goes wrong , they 'll just leave you face down in the shit . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Bastard , ’ growled Lofty , ‘ they 'll find him face down in the river one of these days , the way he 's goin on . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Before leaving , Risdon tied up both men , left them face down in the bathroom , and fired a gun into the mattress , ’ claimed Mr Curtis . |
| 25 | One more such blow , I thought , face down in the sand , and I am gone . |
| 26 | And there , as he ( Tethra ) lay face down in the lee of an upturned boat , … he let his thinking catch up with him . |
| 27 | Silent , face down in the half-light , the black boy writhes hips and spine , serpentine , oiled , musculature moving as in dance , inviting a cock to complete him , counterpoint his eros of motion with some simpler , maybe brutal , theme . |
| 28 | The man in white drags her body over the rock and lays it face down in the centre . |
| 29 | To play shuffle the cards and place face down in the centre of the |
| 30 | Then place the cards face down in the position for ‘ Find the cards ’ and immediately know where to find each of the matching pairs . |