Example sentences of "[to-vb] down [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside the sanctum , Miller was once made to sit down with the words ‘ Let me show you how a covert operation is set up . ’ |
| 2 | It 'll all be all right when the Vice President goes to Riyadh to sit down with the Iranians and they find out that our hostages come home , and the Ayatollah is either helping us in Central America or the contras . |
| 3 | Place chairs round in a circle and ask one sex , say the girls , to sit down on the chairs . |
| 4 | Also , when he gestured to me to sit down on the mats which covered the floor , I could not but observe two fairly fresh ( tuskless ) skulls above the door by which we had entered . |
| 5 | In fact , a shower of dust , cobwebs , bat droppings and laths had indeed begun to splatter down upon the musicians and their small audience . |
| 6 | Curzon was more difficult to drive down to the provinces . |
| 7 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
| 8 | There 's nobody more sensible , but underneath all the sense there 's the woman , and her needs , and the feeling that she 's going to go down through the years alone . |
| 9 | He was then required to go down to the ranges to practise shooting with the 9 mm pistol . |
| 10 | Times to go down to the pits and the sun came out . |
| 11 | You do n't want to go down to the slides yet ? |
| 12 | I ought to go down to the police station . |
| 13 | They said I might have to go down to the police station and be interviewed there later in their inquiries . |
| 14 | He had braved the bitter weather to go down to the bookshops on the Charing Cross Road not just for the chance to get some books — he could have bought them any time — but principally to meet Joseph Hyde and hear the latest news from Dublin . |
| 15 | And was the water there to go down into the villages ? |
| 16 | Calling for the " strengthening of ties between the party and the masses " , it made seven demands : ( i ) adherence to the mass line ( i.e. policy making and implementation in line with the interests of the people ) ; ( ii ) officials to go down among the masses ; ( iii ) the strengthening of socialist democracy and the legal system ; ( iv ) fighting official corruption ; ( v ) supervision , internal and from outside ; ( vi ) the need for exemplary behaviour from party members ; and ( vii ) raising political ( Marxist ) awareness . |
| 17 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 18 | The industrialist MP Samuel Morley and others persuaded him to stand down on the grounds that ministers should not directly enter the political arena and Morley paid all his expenses when he gave up the contest . |
| 19 | It was a gladness to slip down into the sheets knowing the day had ended . |
| 20 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 21 | She had to chow down with the others in the common-room now she was mobile . |
| 22 | Did they want him to crack down on the rioters ? |
| 23 | You stand a better chance if you put something with the Sunday and even then that might not be completely enough to reach down to the crevices , but I think some method , and that 's why I suggested surgeries actually , was that we have to talk regularly to people face to face and once you 're in a room with people then it goes , does n't it ? |
| 24 | When he craned to stare down at the crowds in the great square below the palace , his head moved so that it rested upon the parapet like a decoration . |
| 25 | To him , even then , it had been history , and it somehow deserved ill-fortune ; in the heedless fashion of the American suburbs it seemed right to look down on the refugees from an old , superstition-riven world . |
| 26 | He began to walk down to the windows and saw an envelope on the floor and when he bent to pick it up , the floor creaked and gave way . ’ |
| 27 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
| 28 | On the following day , however , a presidential commission investigating the role of the security forces during the November 1989 revolution published findings implicating Vacek , at that time Army Chief of Staff and First Deputy Defence Minister , in preparations by the Army high command to clamp down against the demonstrations which ultimately had overthrown the communist regime . |
| 29 | for a red hand to crash down through the palmfronds |
| 30 | Their enemies drove them out arid they were forced to live down in the marshes of Kelfazin . |