Example sentences of "down [conj] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | oh yes , but not in the ordinary er there was a huge place , where you could put tables all round the tables , you see , and , and er it was a and er I liked it , I , when they were busy , you see , I used to , especially if they had an order for these hundreds of cups of tea , er , you see , I used to go down and give a hand then , I used to like it , you see , somebody would give a shout and I would come down from the office and and left them anyway and then er I heard of this job . |
| 2 | You know , let them come down and give a quote |
| 3 | Since no scientist was prepared to sit down and do a comparable amount of research in order to demolish a theory which seemed so patently to be a load of rubbish , they all simply cried ‘ Rubbish ! ’ and stamped their feet . |
| 4 | In the wake of the War of Independence , Americans were able to sit down and generate a political system from first principles . |
| 5 | WHAT the Taylor Report offered was a chance for everyone concerned in soccer — officials , players , spectators , politicians even — to sit down and create a blueprint for the game for the next 100 years . |
| 6 | Er I , I was a messenger for a time for the er , we lived in Lane and I was a messenger for a time with the erm A R P headquarters in Drive , now when my uncle got married and he had two children and I 'd , they were issuing gas masks and I had to go down and fetch a gas mask for his daughter and they were great big ones that used to envelope the whole babies with a bellows on the side that the mothers used to have to pump when they were in them , thank goodness we never had to use them and erm |
| 7 | He added : ‘ It is not a political reality to say that we would sit down and negotiate a new treaty with 11 members without Denmark . ’ |
| 8 | Because it obliges you to sit down and make a careful observation of the chosen subject , you discover so much more than by just pointing a camera . |
| 9 | So please let's find somewhere we can sit down and make a plan . ’ |
| 10 | To this end it can be quite a good idea to sit down and make a list of all the social activities you would like to enjoy if you were free to do so -such as visiting and entertaining friends , going to the theatre , cinema , concerts , evening classes , study groups , church activities and special interest clubs , as well as the occasional holiday . |
| 11 | So far , man has described and named about 700,000 of them and there are certainly three or four times as many still unnamed , awaiting the attentions of anyone who has the time , patience and knowledge to sit down and make a systematic review of them . |
| 12 | Perhaps he should abandon thoughts of privateering ; perhaps he should settle down and make a home . |
| 13 | I mean basically you say the bloke says we 're going to sit down and make a decision tonight |
| 14 | Shall I come down and bring a breath of life and urban decay ? ’ |
| 15 | He began to sleep through the night , and became much less active — for the first time he could sit down and watch a television programme through to the end . |
| 16 | The other essential is to land well clear of any obstructions , because a wing can so easily go down and cause a bad swing as you slow down after landing . |
| 17 | ‘ He chopped and changed the side at whim and never allowed any team he selected to settle down and establish a set pattern of play . ’ |
| 18 | GRIDLOCK by Ben Elton Sphere , £4.99 WHEN a stand-up comedian decides to sit down and write a novel , does the result have to be a heavy-handed satire on just about everything ? |
| 19 | Of course , record companies are always going to want you to have a hit , but as far as what we do , they just have to look at our albums and try to pick out something they can exploit that way , after the event , as compared to trying to make us sit down and write a hit . |
| 20 | Bernard paints a picture of a pope harassed by worldly affairs and commends the example of Pope Gregory the Great , who , while the city was besieged by the barbarians , found time to sit down and write a commentary on Ezekiel . |
| 21 | I mean I could sit down and write a piece of doggerel about what we 're doing now that rhymed and was comic and so on . |
| 22 | So so basically , in a minute , have to sit down and write a list of who is going to come and who is not and what order . |
| 23 | Erm and our marketing executive who goes round signing the surgery up leaves a certain amount of information er and particularly these erm a sheet si similar to this with er we ask the practice to sit down and compile a list of businesses . |
| 24 | I see this as a positive element because here for once the client 's gon na have to sit down and produce a specification |
| 25 | He said that a man who 's gon na build a , build something , let's put it in a modern setting , the man who 's gon na , a man and woman , a couple are gon na put an extension on their house , they do n't just go down and buy a few dozen bricks , er , and a bag cement and start , they work out how much it 's gon na cost them first of all . |
| 26 | Yes , what about her mother ; why could n't she go down and take a turn ? |
| 27 | ’ Clearly , Adam was only reluctantly willing to share his plans with his parents , ‘ Since you ask , I 'm going to go down and take a look at it as soon as I can and then I 'm going to put it on the market . ’ |
| 28 | If he had no money , he could sit down and take a bottle of beer from the crate on the table , and carry on drinking until it had run out . |
| 29 | Blanche waited for him to sit down and take a couple of sips . |
| 30 | But I believe that what you should do with trying to come to estimates of housing provision , is to put together the best technical assumptions that you can , to then sit down and take a long hard look at the figures based on the erm the policies of the County Council as approved by the Secretary of State in previous structure plan approvals , the current government policy . |