Example sentences of "down and [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat down and set to work on the files . |
| 2 | That took an hour , and made me so tired that I was able to lie down and go to sleep . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm going to lie down and go to sleep now . |
| 4 | I do n't think it helps him , it helps me calm down and go to sleep . |
| 5 | In the heart of the press one or two died of suffocation , and many were ridden down and crushed to death under the horses ' feet . |
| 6 | He put the magazine down and stared into space over my head , smiling wisely as I cleared my throat and flapped the hem of my dressing-gown as unobtrusively as I could . |
| 7 | When the Farmer has finished he sits down and goes to sleep and begins counting to 100 . |
| 8 | Now settle down and go to sleep . |
| 9 | No , they had n't been aware of anything untoward , not until , much later , the eunuch had come down and searched below deck inch by inch from bows to stern . |
| 10 | She slipped the key into the lock and was about to turn it when she looked down and realised with surprise that the door was open . |
| 11 | It got quite windy in the morning but he got his head down and played to par , not speaking hardly a word , even to me . |
| 12 | But to business , the game against Crewe on Saturady was a run of the mill 3rd round cup tie agaainst a team from the lower divisions , namely they came to shut the Leeds midfield down and run around alot while Leeds sat back and attempted to play footy . |
| 13 | All the medieval buildings were torn down and replaced by stone built ones , with red pantiled roofs . |
| 14 | SINGAPORE ( Reuter ) — The Prime Minister of Singapore , Lee Kuan Yew , confirmed in an interview with the BBC that he would step down and hand over power to his deputy , Goh Chok Tong , by the end of next year . |
| 15 | She and Edward would be alone on Grace , and they could batten down and stay in bed for twenty-four hours if they felt like it . |
| 16 | The pair then lay down and went to sleep ! |
| 17 | I was so exhausted that I lay down and went to sleep . |
| 18 | I drank from the river and then lay down and went to sleep . |
| 19 | Then nothing else seemed about to happen , and she eventually calmed down and went to sleep . |
| 20 | I caught a bit of it on and we sat down and went to sleep . |
| 21 | For a while , there , he 'd as good as haunted the place in the late afternoons … but then the van had broken down and getting into town had n't been so easy , and besides the restaurant had become so damned busy that he 'd become just another face in an ever-changing crowd . |
| 22 | What hitherto had been integrated plants in countries like the UK , carrying out complete manufacturing processes , are closed down and rationalized in order to manufacture products more cheaply from parts manufactured by workers divided between a number of countries . |
| 23 | Jess set the tankard down and began to unbutton his shirt . |
| 24 | I was beginning to think that the staring match would never stop when he suddenly sat down and began to finger some papers on the top of his desk . |
| 25 | Byrne says that they added to the confusion by jumping up and down and shouting with glee . |
| 26 | If you can not be sure of handling the glider safely , turn it out of the wind , hold the wing down and wait for help . |
| 27 | Even when it was declared to be worth twenty-one shillings in 1717 it was undervalued ; silver coins were exported to India where their value was still high , or to Amsterdam where they could be melted down and exchanged for gold , and Britain moved inadvertently to a gold standard . |
| 28 | After driving some distance Angel stopped the carriage to get down and continue on foot . |
| 29 | The overall law of this country is laid down and maintained by Parliament by means of Acts which are passed from time to time . |
| 30 | It jumped the fence lower down and disappeared from sight . |