Example sentences of "down and [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have n't got a tremolo arm fitted on your guitar , then you can simulate the effect by playing one fret down and using a normal ‘ bend up ’ into the required note . |
| 2 | I remember planting my foot down and hearing a snap . |
| 3 | ‘ What , like this ? ’ you 're supposed to have said , reaching down and rapping a leg with your knuckles . |
| 4 | We took off into the last of the evening sun in poor visibility and I do not recall seeing any of the aircraft that took-off in front of me rise in the evening murk , I was too busy putting the nose down and squeezing a bit more speed out of the lumbering Whitley as we cleared the boundary . |
| 5 | After rubbing down and applying a one-step primer and undercoat we gave this set of drawers a modernist look by painting different sections in a variety of bright , matt colours . |
| 6 | The goal is made concrete by writing it down and making a commitment to it . |
| 7 | Stooping down and keeping a very sharp lookout from under my hat , I coughed several times , splashed the water about , and then , moving very slowly and gathering dry sticks on the way ( as the local Indians might do ) , I went to the foot of the steep rock . |
| 8 | The groups took part in a number of incident simulations — attending to accident victims at the scene of an air crash , getting to the roof of a four storey burning building using an ariel slide to get down and rescuing a pilot from the bottom of a swimming pool . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's all in the position of the head , ’ said Fred , sitting down and having a beer . |
| 10 | I understood though I mean it , it looks from many of these er publications as though it 's meant to convey that Mr and Mr Wogan are sitting down and having a conversation or Ms Rippon is n't it ? , that 's how it 's presented , is that right ? |
| 11 | And by sitting down and having a technical and commercial conversation together |
| 12 | A man has admitted knocking down and killing a cyclist after drinking more than five pints of lager . |