Example sentences of "down on a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You going down on a weekend darling ? |
| 2 | Jenny Weston , 34 , claimed Colin Webb made a barrage of unrelenting sexual demands and once pinned her down on a hotel bed . |
| 3 | High , frescoed ceilings looked down on a marble floor worn smooth over the centuries . |
| 4 | During the worst period for external conditions of the whole three years the only book I could get hold of ( and then only after putting my name down on a waiting list ) was Somerset Maugham 's enormous Of Human Bondage . |
| 5 | To bone the turkey , put it breast-side down on a chopping board . |
| 6 | If you ever break down on a country road at 2 a.m. , you will truly understand the meaning of the word ‘ alone ’ . |
| 7 | The elder female sank down on a tree stump to rest , fanning herself with her hand . |
| 8 | He let the others go on , sat down on a kitchen stool and took it out of his pocket . |
| 9 | He had sighed , rubbed his hands together and sat down on a kitchen chair . |
| 10 | The chief disposed his attendants in a circle , and sat down on a hide spread for him . |
| 11 | The clothes were boiled in a copper over a wood fire , rubbed up and down on a wash board , then squeezed through a hand-turned mangle . |
| 12 | In the living room she picked up a couple of wine glasses from the floor and set them down on a coffee table . |
| 13 | Alex went off for glasses and Charles put the bottle down on a coffee table . |
| 14 | I saw the ageing winger Chicka being rubbed down on a massage table and smoking a cigarette . |
| 15 | Azar called me over and with a flourish sat me down on a plastic deckchair at the front of the ring of spectators . |
| 16 | This camera is being used to crack down on a crime explosion that 's made victims of people like 91 year old Beatrice Wakefield , burgled of her savings as she sat in the garden . |
| 17 | Shown here is the Queen Mother looking at the display relating to Frank Griffiths , the sole survivor of a Halifax that was shot down on a supply mission , and who was successfully hidden by the local Resistance . |
| 18 | Aunt Kit sat down on a tin trunk , rolled up the sleeves of her gown , and looked at me . |
| 19 | fixed down on a concrete bed and then your generator goes on the end on |
| 20 | The H B F figure for Greater York was twelve thousand three hundred , the Barton Willmore figure was twelve thousand seven hundred , but they did break it down on a district basis , and they gave five six five o to Ryedale , and then Michael Courcier , represented by Mr Sedgewick , a much more modest figure of ten thousand six hundred , for Greater York . |
| 21 | Bryn was shot down on a bombing raid in 1944 and the Belgian resistance smuggled him to safety in a coffin . |
| 22 | ‘ To say I am delighted is an understatement , ’ said Wallace , who was tracked down on a business trip to Moscow by a Garryowen club colleague . |
| 23 | I sat down on a milking stool , rolled up my trouser leg and examined the roll of skin which hung like a diploma at the end ofa long graze where the sharp hoof had dragged along . |
| 24 | It was rather pathetic sometimes because he was upset at somebody going down on a discipline charge and getting the sack . |
| 25 | Alternatively , dispense 10 double drops of fixative on a wax plate ( dental wax , or a sheet of parafilm stuck down on a glass surface ) , and float each grid on the surface of a drop ( 1 grid per drop — use each drop once only ) . |
| 26 | Rincewind jumped as something touched his leg , and brought his heel down on a questing tentacle . |