Example sentences of "[vb -s] down on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone claps a little and Peter sits down on the drum stool . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | John sits down on the bed and recites a mantra under his breath . |
| 4 | One that goes down on the floor ! |
| 5 | Draws near and flops down on the seat . |
| 6 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
| 7 | But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph . |
| 8 | Mortars are shorter , heavier weapons than cannons , designed to lob an explosive shell high into the air so that it drops down on the target from the sky . |
| 9 | Jen grabs for the bottle and it drops down on the grass and rolls away , glug , gurgle . |
| 10 | She stumbles after him , and lies down on the bed . |
| 11 | Without warning , Laverne raises his hands in the air , yells at the top of his voice , and bears down on the snake . |
| 12 | So what if she has only three frocks to her name ( ‘ cuts down on the washin' ’ ) Or if her ‘ fur ’ coat looks like it was handed down from Wilma Flintstone . |
| 13 | This cuts down on the suspense and Ballantyne sees it as being comic . |
| 14 | Cuts cuts down on the electricity bill . |
| 15 | " It cuts down on the drama , no ? |
| 16 | Your leading hand slaps down on the punch as you simultaneously punch over the top and into the opponent 's face . |
| 17 | Burning grit rains down on the city then blows gusting through the grid of scorching streets . |
| 18 | It eventually settles down on the bottom of the sea and grows into a tiny flower-like organism called a polyp . |
| 19 | He falls down on the sand . |
| 20 | Letting out a shriek , she races towards them and thumps down on the ground . |
| 21 | he , he , he , he said hard , right , so he can fucking , he said I 'll , I 'll take these and the first man that comes up fucking bashes it and then James er John James gets them all and when he wakes up , just as he 's about to wake up John James thinks right and he fucking lays down on the ground and he wakes up and sees all these clowns all over the place |
| 22 | If you say that a freely-floating body — and the weights would help a bit there , because they 'd keep it under water and out of any wind — moves down on the ebb at an average of a bit under two knots , you 'd not be far wrong . |
| 23 | As dialogue continues down on the floor the Inlay Operator prepares for the first of his ‘ big moments ’ ; the establishing shot of the city as seen by the time-travellers . |
| 24 | The Headless Horseman appears on the carriage and swoops down on the adventurers . |
| 25 | If an owl swoops down on the kangaroo rat , the kangaroo rat is alerted by the sound of wind passing over the bird 's wings and can evade the grasping talons . |
| 26 | And with that the curtain comes down on the Gospel . |
| 27 | A stream comes down on the east side and disappears into a cave entrance admitting to a passage below the track where , on the west side , it is joined underground from an alternative pothole entrance . |