Example sentences of "[to-vb] down [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And David Lee , spokesman for the Football Supporters ' Association said : ‘ We have asked the PFA to support the protest by asking their members to sit down for one minute on Saturday . ’ |
| 2 | Are you coming to sit down for this meal ? |
| 3 | shareholding in National Power and PowerGen and instruct the chief executives to sit down with British Coal and negotiate a mutually beneficial contract from 1993 . |
| 4 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 5 | Forget the grinning drummer or the antics of the bass player ( the first to go down to stroppy retaliation ) , this band are a scorched earth antidote to faint hearts and floppy fringes . |
| 6 | You know where you used to go down to that Mall Court |
| 7 | sorting out and then I 've got to go down to that conference and fly up to Stone Haven |
| 8 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 9 | Patrick squirmed uncomfortably in the jumper and the trousers , which were at least two sizes too large for him — he felt as if they were going to fall down at any moment . |
| 10 | A VICTORIOUS Mr Major was back in Downing Street last night finalising an extensive Cabinet reshuffle as the twice-defeated Mr Kinnock was preparing to stand down as Labour leader , probably in the autumn . |
| 11 | Well this all had coal and , and the , the chimneys want wanted sweeping and if you did n't sweep your chimney regular the soot used to come down onto this water into , into this er boiler . |
| 12 | It is no longer to come down on one side or other of the fence as the entire poem was so clearly designed to do , but to say following the ways of God will mean this . |
| 13 | Why he decided to come down on one player 's side against another is beyond comprehension . |
| 14 | Until I find out more I do not want to come down on either side . ’ |
| 15 | Until I find out more I do not want to come down on either side . ’ |
| 16 | Not wishing to come down on either side , the planners say it 's a nice fence but high fences near roads need permission . |
| 17 | He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens . |
| 18 | ‘ Would you like to come down to Carinish Court for a few days ? ’ |
| 19 | Well the first thing is to make sure that the magistrates and the police use their licencing powers to crack down on illegal drinking , that is to say under age drinking , and to crack down on unruly pubs and the hours that discos are open and that 's beginning to happen . |
| 20 | He says the force has started to crack down on rural violence and he blamed much of the trouble on young people drinking too much . |
| 21 | The USGA have made clear their intention to crack down on slow play at Baltusrol and Langer believes he is not one of the worst offenders . |
| 22 | The police are only now beginning to crack down on this type of smuggling . |
| 23 | The Department of Transport , the advertising industry and the police have combined to crack down on this menace which is still responsible for so much carnage and misery . |
| 24 | Since the substances used are often freely on sale for legitimate purposes , it is hard to crack down on this form of abuse . |
| 25 | It is these experiences which have prompted me to set down in this book some of the lessons I have learnt over the years . |
| 26 | Of course somebody , Who Shall Be Nameless , would bring up the subject of Burns-And-You-Know-What , and how many of his children were born on The Wrong Side Of The Blanket , What Right Had We to look down on Brown Owl for her shotgun wedding when we were all supposed to look up to Rabbie Burns as Our Big Hero ? |
| 27 | Voting was 169 to 114 , as Liberal Democrat and Labour peers joined rebel Tories to support the change to the controversial Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill which aims to clamp down on bogus asylum claims and speed genuine applications . |
| 28 | He won their favour in the wake of last year 's Anita Hill case when he vowed to clamp down on sexual discrimination and harassment in the workplace . |
| 29 | US prepares to clamp down on wild bird trade |
| 30 | Commanding officers were asked to clamp down on harmful initiation ceremonies , and ‘ agony aunts ’ from the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service were installed to provide a sympathetic hearing for bullied soldiers . |