Example sentences of "and [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Immense parasites twining round the trees taking root some of them at the tops of the trees and hanging down to the ground , others surrounding the trees like a crown — heard the bell bird with his incessant ting ting , the coachwhip bird & c. — a heavy shower of rain accompanied by lightning — soon cleared up — every green thing looked more beautiful for its sprinkling . ’ |
| 2 | Hold rear legs gently backwards and comb down towards the foot . |
| 3 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 4 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 5 | The whole was created beneath the sea and laid down as a series of overlying strata which emerged as an elevated dome , the cap being subsequently removed by erosion . |
| 6 | The Trust is fortunate that its regional structure was conceived and laid down in the 1971 Act of Parliament . |
| 7 | Until it is universally accepted that nobody whatsoever has title to property other than that held under rules to be agreed and laid down by all humankind , as distinct from those alleged to have been the product of some ‘ god ’ or other , will the first step towards formulating those rules have been taken . |
| 8 | Then he went over to the window , and gazed down into Hand and Ball Court for several minutes , frowning and pushing his lower lip up alternately . |
| 9 | He went over to the window and gazed down into Hand and Ball Court . |
| 10 | He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains . |
| 11 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 12 | Ilbrec turned and gazed down at Fand . |
| 13 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 14 | He opened his eyes and gazed down at her face . |
| 15 | Slowly he stepped across to the terrace and gazed down at her with eyes so racked with pain that Ruth 's own eyes filled to the brim with her despair and lost love . |
| 16 | We sat with our backs against the trig point and gazed down like Gods on the coastal plain of Thassos . |
| 17 | Flat roofs are laid with a slight slope so that rainwater can be collected by conventional gutters and led down to the drains . |
| 18 | ‘ Come and sit down over here . ’ |
| 19 | Take off your boots this moment , before I lose my temper , and sit down over there . |
| 20 | ‘ Come and sit down over here . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We should get six top international players and a number of international referees and sit down with the law-makers so that all points of view are aired . ’ |
| 22 | Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen . |
| 23 | ‘ Come and sit down with us , Rachaela . |
| 24 | Can you two go and sit down with daddy please cos this is getting silly . |
| 25 | Go and sit down with daddy please . |
| 26 | ‘ Come and sit down on something more comfortable , ’ he said . |
| 27 | I get on with it most of the afternoon , and I 've still got a stack of unopened buff envelopes in my hand as I head doggedly back up the little twisting staircase and sit down on my hard box seat to get on with it again up here , a task which now looks likely to keep me here after everyone else has gone home . |
| 28 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 29 | There 's plenty here , so if you clean yourself up and sit down at the table I 'll put something out for you too . |
| 30 | Playing a Stableford of the three best individual scores , they finish about 3½ hours later and sit down to a breakfast provided by the ladies . |