Example sentences of "[to-vb] down on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane Pargeter said , nodding towards her open drinks cabinet , even before Blanche and Dexter had time to sit down on the black leather armchairs in her sitting-room . |
| 2 | The musky male scent of his cologne teased her nostrils , and she was ashamed at the way her knees were trembling as he led her over to sit down on the wide , comfortable couch . |
| 3 | But take away the healthy assurance which grows from personal conviction and every pressure is likely to bear down on the weakened commitment and raise tremors of uncertainty which grow into doubt . |
| 4 | The government 's response to mounting criticism was to crack down on the principal advocates of reform . |
| 5 | If Joe had not caught her , she would be there now , walking up the dale to look down on the sleeping cottage . |
| 6 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
| 7 | So the more frozen in horror a human being is , the more likely the cat is to leap up and try to settle down on the static lap . |
| 8 | This was obviously the pigeons ' favourite delicacy : at the sight of the tin can , the pigeons leapt in the air and fluttered above us waiting to dive down on the first grains ; others landed flirtatiously on Fardine 's arms and shoulders . |
| 9 | Then hearing the padlock rattle , hurried to lie down on the makeshift bed again . |
| 10 | What appears to be a mortar explosion close by causes the column to get down on the flooded ground . |
| 11 | to get down on the other platform and to wave , |
| 12 | They won because Gloucester , brave and energetic and often on top in the second half , took too long to close down on the former Eire winger Jeff Chandler . |
| 13 | I said for heaven sake girls , not only trying to cut down on the expensive just because obviously trying to start up on their own . |
| 14 | The main themes that Bukharin pursued were : ( 1 ) the need to cut down on the excessive unproductive consumption of the state bureaucracy ; and ( 2 ) the need to draw the widest possible strata of the people into the planning process and into controlling the state . |