Example sentences of "down and [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He has to settle down and marry one day , just as I do , has n't he ? ’ |
2 | It was as if Ruth were truly Emma 's child and for some reason Rachaela had had to come down and witness this scene . |
3 | And I said I 've bought a box of matches for him to go down and light this fire thinking you know he might need two or three matches at a time . |
4 | Often , for instance , after the baby has been put to sleep the mother will sit down and eat another meal . |
5 | Developed by Spontex , AirX contains nearly a billion naturally occurring human friendly bacteria , to break down and eat organic matter , the main cause of smells . |
6 | This often relied upon their so-called ‘ gut reaction ’ to evaluate children 's work , with the Head of Department freely admitting that he found it difficult to break down and assess different aspects of work . |
7 | Born in Huddersfield , Mike , 40 , spent the early part of his career wandering between journalism and PR , always promising himself one day he would sit down and write that book . |
8 | But you can actually sit down and write several poems to order ? |
9 | He added : ‘ People from all over the country , people we have never heard of , have been good enough to sit down and write lengthy letters , to send flowers at great expense to a boy , just saying Tim Parry , Warrington , Cheshire , and it is getting to the house . |
10 | A ruling Labour group proposal to shut down and sell three schools , and use the cash for reorganising existing sites , was thrown out in a stormy meeting . |
11 | Probably the best advice is to sit down and list all income as well as all expenditure — including variables like possible car maintenance bills , treats , clothes , savings for holidays — and then honestly look at what is left . |
12 | With a loyal and loving woman behind him and the semblance of domestic life , he hoped that at last Modi would settle down and produce more paintings . |
13 | It aids understanding of these phenomena to recognise that the function of all timber pests is to break down and convert dead trees into soil , allowing new trees unimpeded growth . |
14 | An AA spokesman said : ‘ Motorists must slow down and take extra care . |
15 | You know , Cora-Beth , with Judd so crazy about aeroplanes and flying , he 's never going to want to settle down and run Blue Ash Farm the way I 'd hoped . |
16 | But you do have to still sit down and get that information . |
17 | I 'm just gon na go down and get some eggs cos I forgotten them . |
18 | Why do n't you come down and see this place . |
19 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
20 | also the people on the ground I mean er surely it would n't do any harm to actually sit down and put some veiws forward from the whole department |
21 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |