Example sentences of "down [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Diana and Charles stooped down to search through the clothes . |
2 | There used to be a Circuit bicycle , kept in Thomas Street , for the use of visiting Edgehill students down to preach in the country churches . |
3 | Staring at him worriedly , she slowly sank down to sit on the edge of the bed . |
4 | They also pointed out that there was no room service and Maggie sank back down to sit on the bed and nurse her aching face . |
5 | John feels better , so he comes down to sit at the kitchen table and chat . |
6 | It might be a way of tempting him down to sit in the bar , sometimes . ’ |
7 | The librarian , fearful of fire , gently shooed Corbett out so the clerk went down to stroll in the monastery 's small herb garden while he rigorously analysed all he had learnt in his journey to Kinghorn . |
8 | They can also be used for tests for structural change , right , what we 're going to do is to say during peacetime right , we 'll estimate our model , we 'll then estimate our model during wartime and we 're going to assume that the coefficients or the income and price elasticity mark , do n't change during between peace and wartime , all that happens is as they intercept this model shifts , right , now you may thinks that 's not particularly er attractive , you might expect the price of income elasticities to change between two periods and we could actually use dummy variables to see whether that is the case , right , however , we 'll get very similar results , right , if you just use a slope dummy so it 'd intercept dummy , right , and all that 's going to do is to say , well the model runs like this in peacetime , right , and then wartime it suddenly shifts up or down depending on the effect of er of the war on textile consumption . |
9 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
10 | She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt . |
11 | She settled down to wait with a book on caving she found in his bookcase , but after a while she had to acknowledge he 'd been gone longer than she 'd expected . |
12 | I settled down to wait in the passageway between the garage and the house where I was a little protected from the inclemency of the weather and whence I was eventually plucked by the constabulary . |
13 | ‘ You 're down to go to the dentist Friday , ’ Paul says . |
14 | Go right and push the crate onto the button , go up on the lift and to the left , push the crate off the edge of the platform , go up on the lift and right , climb up six platforms and push the crate left , fall left and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , jump onto the ledges on the wall and go up , go right , up , left , up , push the crate right , fall down , push the crate right into the button , go right and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , drop down to the stationary lift , go left then up , push the crate down , right , right , left , right and right onto the button . |
15 | Go right and push the crate onto the button , go up on the lift and to the left , push the crate off the edge of the platform , go up on the lift and right , climb up six platforms and push the crate left , fall left and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , jump onto the ledges on the wall and go up , go right , up , left , up , push the crate right , fall down , push the crate right into the button , go right and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , drop down to the stationary lift , go left then up , push the crate down , right , right , left , right and right onto the button . |
16 | At the top of the shaft , push the crate right onto the switch , go right and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , push the next crate right onto the button , then go along the next conveyor belt . |
17 | The skep , with some comb still hanging to feed the bees through the cold times , was lifted onto a cloth , the spare bees scooped back into it , and it was wrapped to be carried back down to overwinter in the bee field . |
18 | I crouched down to hide behind a pillar , and watched . |
19 | you ca n't settle down to work on a project even though it interests you |
20 | Soon she would get down to work on the garden ; it would be something to do at the weekends . |
21 | With no casualties to deal with , but with new staff and better equipment our doctors settled down to work with a will for the children from ‘ Peabody buildings ’ at the back of the hospital who had either come back from evacuation , or who would not go anyway . |
22 | I got some quiet music and sat down to listen for a minute . |
23 | He found a seat and settled down to listen to the opening speaker in the first of the day 's debates . |
24 | The King assured Baldwin that he never drank before seven in the evening and settled down to listen to the lecture that he knew was coming . |
25 | POP mogul Pete Waterman is turning his multi-million empire upside down searching for a spy . |
26 | I did Hope that Lord Nelson who was staying at Raby might come down to partake of the fayre which had been set out on a Royal Oak table decorated with a huge Wheatsheaf , Blue Bells and a small Green Tree that looked very much like Three Tuns . |
27 | A fuming Jackson said : ‘ I spent 40 minutes walking up and down looking for an official , and later two hours near the control centre , but nothing happened . ’ |
28 | Oh no , Jinny thought as he bent down to fiddle with the controls of the video recorder . |
29 | He bent down to stare at the floor . |
30 | She had showered and put on a tracksuit , having been called down to help in the kitchen before getting into something more elegant . |