Example sentences of "[vb past] down [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will implement procedures laid down to comply with the Company 's duty of care and will liaise with the Group Environmental Manager on such issues . |
| 2 | Swam down to sniff at the trembling . |
| 3 | Staring at him worriedly , she slowly sank down to sit on the edge of the bed . |
| 4 | He bent down to stare at the floor . |
| 5 | After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human . |
| 6 | Oh no , Jinny thought as he bent down to fiddle with the controls of the video recorder . |
| 7 | Diana and Charles stooped down to search through the clothes . |
| 8 | Filmmakers settled down to live with the Americans , having decided against launching any further substantial challenges on their home turf . |
| 9 | I settled down to wait in the passageway between the garage and the house where I was a little protected from the inclemency of the weather and whence I was eventually plucked by the constabulary . |
| 10 | The King assured Baldwin that he never drank before seven in the evening and settled down to listen to the lecture that he knew was coming . |
| 11 | He found a seat and settled down to listen to the opening speaker in the first of the day 's debates . |
| 12 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |
| 13 | Two cuckoos flew down to settle on the wire fence . |
| 14 | Jack recently told us the plot of a 1951 Jane Wyman movie called The Blue Veil and we both broke down sobbing at the same point of the story and sobbed for minutes . |
| 15 | She squatted down to peer through the glass and saw a headscarf printed with Scottie dogs and a hand clutching a potted plant with its leaves torn off . |
| 16 | The librarian , fearful of fire , gently shooed Corbett out so the clerk went down to stroll in the monastery 's small herb garden while he rigorously analysed all he had learnt in his journey to Kinghorn . |
| 17 | And she went down to check in the winter time and she said your van was really dry . |
| 18 | Almost without thinking she reached down to turn off the gas and water taps , then climbed the narrow stairs and pushed open the door to her right , smiling at the riot of roses that covered the walls . |
| 19 | Then she lay down to rest in the lounge , surrounded by other women who even here never stopped talking . |
| 20 | Then I hurried down to look at the ruins I had seen earlier , before the next onslaught of rough weather could begin . |
| 21 | She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt . |
| 22 | Furious , she sat down to wait for the next vehicle . |
| 23 | With his second cup of tea in front of him , he sat down to look at the newspaper . |
| 24 | Apgood pocketed the film and sat down to browse through the stack of fragile old certificates . |