Example sentences of "down [prep] [det] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a quiet time and I would sit these fellows down for half an hour and take them through what they were doing . |
| 2 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 3 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 4 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 5 | Why do n't you go and lie down for half an hour ? |
| 6 | I know what I need , to put my head down for half an hour this afternoon I wo n't be fit for nothing the night . |
| 7 | The Brighton Constabulary , whose marksmen had taken up positions from which they could command the Grand Hotel , was stood down after half an hour . |
| 8 | They got Midnight down in half an hour , after Jess had fetched water for him to drink , and then had cleaned him as best she could . |
| 9 | He 'd be down in half an hour though . |
| 10 | The biggest problem is that when the clean coal technology plants are available , judging by present progress , the British coal industry will be run down to such an extent that it will not be able to meet the demand from the plants . |
| 11 | And , since she , too , was n't at all hungry — and would have done practically anything to avoid having to sit down at such an overtly romantic candle-lit dinner — she reluctantly agreed to his suggestion . |