Example sentences of "[vb -s] down [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big challenge came from everybody 's favourite Ginny Leng … she was riding Welton Romance and after racing around the 28 fence course was just two penalty points down from the leader … less than once fault in the showjumping … |
| 2 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |
| 3 | Everyone claps a little and Peter sits down on the drum stool . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | John sits down on the bed and recites a mantra under his breath . |
| 6 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's advertising . |
| 7 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ What you need is a good romance and it so happens I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's marketing . |
| 8 | A girl sits down with a man and she says , ‘ I hear you 're very romantic , please take me to dinner ’ — that 's Public Relations ! |
| 9 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 10 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 11 | Crilly sits down by the window and opens a gardening magazine . |
| 12 | Likeable , cordial , he sits down in a chair facing her husband and herself and proceeds to converse with them . |
| 13 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 14 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 15 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 16 | Firms would invite favoured clients or business associates down for a day at Sandwich , either as a reward for past favours rendered or in the hope that the goodwill created would lubricate some future deal . |
| 17 | Maybe she slows down in the cold . |
| 18 | They say time slows down in the barrel . |
| 19 | You know , the computer goes down for a hour , it 's three-quarters of the day to get everything back and validated , and that 's a major interruption . |
| 20 | Erm imaginary line that goes down through the middle of a ball , yes , through there Jupiter . |
| 21 | And the prince goes down through the wood to another exit |
| 22 | You can see there 's been a wee bit of damage to that ligament just where it goes down over the top of that bone . |
| 23 | The path simply sheds water to either side ; but where a path which follows the contours goes down into a dip , you 'll have to ensure that ponding does n't occur , and it may be necessary to form a small land drain to lead the water away to a less waterlogged area . |
| 24 | Misumenops nepenthicola , a spider , lives there and captures flies ; if these are distasteful they are ( sometimes ) thrown back into the pitcher ; if disturbed , the spider goes down into the liquid on a thread , its armour and a bubble of air making it immune to the digestive juices there . |
| 25 | Your name goes down into the future as Mary Shelley . ’ |
| 26 | Er , she goes down with a friend . |
| 27 | John King makes a late shuffle after Neil McNab goes down with a stomach upset . |
| 28 | One that goes down on the floor ! |
| 29 | And when it goes down to a water hole to drink it crouches down and awkwardly sips with its mouth . |
| 30 | From Gearstones an undisputed path goes down to a footbridge over the stream , here known as Gayle Beck . |