Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] down for " in BNC.

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1 The 50-year-old child killer suffered a black eye , bruises and minor cuts as she sat down for a meal at Cookham Wood jail in Kent .
2 As we sat down for Cabinet I told Nigel that we must meet afterwards .
3 Pipes and cigarettes glowed in the darkness as we settled down for the six-hour passage .
4 We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time .
5 I asked Joe about the heart attack and the changes that it had brought to his life as he settled down for his six hours ' daily practice at the Manor Leisure Club in Yeadon , near Leeds-Bradford Airport .
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