Example sentences of "down [verb] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Staring at him worriedly , she slowly sank down to sit on the edge of the bed . |
| 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 | She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt . |
| 10 | Furious , she sat down to wait for the next vehicle . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're down to go to the dentist Friday , ’ Paul says . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Soon she would get down to work on the garden ; it would be something to do at the weekends . |
| 18 | Ross Wyndham was all that she had tried so hard to forget — and more : tall , lean , dark and almost painfully attractive , his tanned skin darkened further by the thick black hair , which was swept back like a lion 's mane over his well-shaped head before sweeping down to curl over the top edge of his collar . |
| 19 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |
| 20 | Emily was being handed down to stand before the light-filled doorway of the Assembly Rooms and she took a deep breath of anticipation , this was her night , the night she was to be accepted as an adult and she would make the most of it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He found a seat and settled down to listen to the opening speaker in the first of the day 's debates . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Oh no , Jinny thought as he bent down to fiddle with the controls of the video recorder . |
| 25 | He bent down to stare at the floor . |
| 26 | It had been Sister Cooney 's idea to take him down to help in the library . |
| 27 | She had showered and put on a tracksuit , having been called down to help in the kitchen before getting into something more elegant . |
| 28 | He will implement procedures laid down to comply with the Company 's duty of care and will liaise with the Group Environmental Manager on such issues . |
| 29 | Swam down to sniff at the trembling . |
| 30 | Then I hurried down to look at the ruins I had seen earlier , before the next onslaught of rough weather could begin . |