Example sentences of "down and [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But too long , and Rab , thinking fuck it all , whatever happened , sat down and rolled a fag . |
| 2 | A DRINK-DRIVER mowed down and killed a young mother on her first night out since the birth of her son six months ago . |
| 3 | JOYRIDERS mowed down and killed a disabled woman in her invalid carriage yesterday . |
| 4 | A SPEEDING motor-cyclist who knocked down and killed a 73-year-old man was fined £2,000 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday . |
| 5 | A SPEEDING driver distracted by laughter and loud music in his car ran down and killed a woman delivering pizzas on a moped , an Old Bailey judge heard yesterday . |
| 6 | Another door , covering the bars of the fire , could be let down and formed a useful ledge . |
| 7 | Why do n't you sit down and read a book for five |
| 8 | Springfield slid the aerial down and directed a relieved grin at the quizzical expressions on the faces of his watching companions . |
| 9 | The House of Commons Select Committee on the Estimates ( 1958 ) argued that the whole system of Treasury control was breaking down and advocated a committee of inquiry . |
| 10 | He put the phone down and had a violent coughing fit . |
| 11 | A few years later Peter married , settled down and had a family . |
| 12 | And that , er it was kind of and the garden was small cos we had it , a quite big garden and you know things like that , I think , and the travelling and everything I think got her down a bit , I know she sat down and had a cry , yeah . |
| 13 | well I went down and had a look at it as a kid you know . |
| 14 | He put the phone down and had a moment 's doubt . |
| 15 | He actually said to them , if you can find , you know , a hundred good men then I wo n't burn your city and then he put it down and down and down and had a good old bargain . |
| 16 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |
| 17 | Yeah , that 's why you see , we 've converted , put a wall up where the door were and knocked the wall down and had a door into the house |
| 18 | Went down and had a fish at Hills Bay on Wednesday |
| 19 | For their next meeting , the enticing mirage of a global exhibition fuelled by their energy , she slowed down and prepared a seduction dinner . |
| 20 | The banker sat down and accepted a cup of tea . |
| 21 | I looked down and saw a giant freshwater prawn almost a foot long . |
| 22 | He looked down and saw a man , small , dark , with black hair flowing down to his shoulders , staring up at him . |
| 23 | A little boy tugged at my skirt ; I looked down and saw a brown face with the sun on it , smiling . |
| 24 | He sat down and saw a bifurcated path , simmering with gold heat round and under the rising , spreading blue-black-green down-pointing vanes of a great pine , still widening where the frame interrupted its soaring . |
| 25 | Having , as I say , abandoned everything he had done , he sat down and wrote a six-part novel within a year which included a twenty-six day break in which he threw together and dictated The Gambler , itself not a small book nor a negligible one , to satisfy the terms of a contract he had made with a shyster publisher . |
| 26 | As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away . |
| 27 | WHILE HE WAS STILL FEELING THE BRUISES FROM THE HANDLEBARS , Nigel sat down and wrote a story called ‘ The Illegal Divorce , . |
| 28 | His plan was endorsed ; he then sat down and wrote a letter to the Director of Education in Bath Street ; and that gentleman 's reply was positive . |
| 29 | Finally , he sat down and wrote a long letter to Sybil Vane . |
| 30 | The section then dived down to attack , Yellow I ( Jeffries ) going in on the starboard quarter and I dived down and made a quarter-astern attack from below , opening fire at 400 yards and closing to 50 yards , giving the e/a three bursts of three seconds each . |