Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of the arts fellows think Humphrey 's a bit of a twit and tend to talk down to him . |
| 2 | I have finished my letter and sit staring down through the orchard thinking about those who have occupied the slit trenches since 6th June : Taff , the mortar team , the others who have gone and have been replaced by new faces . |
| 3 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 4 | Jan. 24 Siyad Barre hands over power to new 25-member government formed by Arteh , and offers to step down in exchange for a ceasefire . |
| 5 | ‘ But I ca n't be held responsible for — ’ she tried to argue — and got shot down in flames for her trouble . |
| 6 | Conceit and fear reach down into our minds and enlist us into behaviour of which we are not proud . |
| 7 | He did not go in to see his mother , but went upstairs and lay face down on his bed . |
| 8 | When Dulé and his companions regained the beach , they were so stunned and wearied by the water and the flames , the howling and frantic clangour of their rout , that they dragged themselves and their boat to the first cover they could find , and lay face down against the earth ; they could sense it trembling as if it were an animal alive beneath them . |
| 9 | Vernon Russell , the head/wine waiter , is a Londoner who married a local woman and has settled down in Knutsford . |
| 10 | It may also be useful in case the patient becomes unexpectedly tired , and needs to sit down for a moment . |
| 11 | the task is complex and needs breaking down into more manageable parts that use a wide range of skills |
| 12 | The journalists claim in ‘ Ambush : The War Between The SAS and the IRA ’ that the SAS man drove a lorry identical to the ex-UDR man 's and pretended to break down on a lonely Tyrone road . |
| 13 | When the sun slides across the sky from right to left and the new moon faces the wrong way you are ready to bet the stripes of the rainbow are inside out , yet curiously unprepared to find the Plough fallen from its high point in the heavens and collapsed face down on the night horizon . |
| 14 | To play shuffle the cards and place face down in the centre of the |
| 15 | He dismounted , and lifted Grégoire down beside him . |
| 16 | With a shrug , Melissa left the office , fetched notebooks and a writing-pad from her car , and tried to settle down to work . |
| 17 | A group of shaven-headed yobbos , with tattooed cheeks and nationalistic leanings , observed this from the upper deck and came swarming down from the bus . |
| 18 | When you 're passing by and going to go down to . |
| 19 | And first , there was a long interruption to normal service at Prime Minister 's Question Time when two Tory backbenchers threw themselves in front of the House and got mown down by the Opposition roaring with ridicule . |
| 20 | He stopped the car and turned to look down at her , his eyes running over her , seeing the state she was in , the grazed leg and arm , her rather dirty hands . |
| 21 | From now on we shall not hang around our side of the Front , waiting for the foe and getting shot down by the French artillery . |
| 22 | The young squire sitting against the buttress , keeled slowly over and sprawled face down on the pavers . |
| 23 | And do n't get so drunk that you ca n't stand up and have to sit down in the middle or , worse still , can not speak at all . |
| 24 | Or you can calmly wink your acknowledgement of their presence , encourage your partner to favour them with a cheery salute , and continue gettin' down to it . |
| 25 | The whole affair , however , failed to gain the status of a diplomatic issue and started to calm down after the New Year holiday , leaving bad feeling between different groups of students . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | After his sensational ( and bloodthirsty ? ) triumph over the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel , he was told of the threat to his life by Ahab 's foreign queen Jezebel , and decided to flee down to the desert around Mount Sinai , the home of many prophets and a place of pilgrimage for many more . |
| 28 | He dismissed the subject from his mind and decided to go down to the tiny lunchroom he ran for his employees , to get a cup of coffee . |
| 29 | She might even fall into the telescope lens and go crashing down upon herself . |
| 30 | After a long pause , Roman turned away from her , and went to sit down behind his desk . |