Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thou left me speyed down wi ’ the family . |
| 2 | Everyone got down very quickly as another shell exploded in the front garden of a cottage across the road . |
| 3 | I saw Changez 's eyes fall caressingly on his wife 's form and then rest on his prostitute 's grooving hips as the two of them got down to Martha Reeves and the Vandellas . |
| 4 | And most of them moved down to Green as soon as it was built . |
| 5 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 6 | Well was one of them moved down to form or ? |
| 7 | He told her to fetch a pencil and paper and when she brought them scribbled down several sentences in capital letters . |
| 8 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 9 | I skidded down the escarpment in high spirits and made a bee-line for the town . |
| 10 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 11 | Yes , and I , and I wiped down one side |
| 12 | In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre . |
| 13 | You see , we 'd got such confidence that she told me that when he died , she said , ‘ He died in his bed here ’ , that we were in , you see ; and she said , ‘ I then closed his eyes and I laid down with him till the morning so that nobody should be disturbed . ’ |
| 14 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 15 | I regret the fact that the hon. Member for Livingston saw fit not to answer the challenge that I laid down to him , just as he has not answered any of the challenges that I have laid down to him today , and that he has also seen fit to put the hon. Lady , on her first outing today , into a rather difficult position . |
| 16 | I lived down there for about five years . |
| 17 | Oh , you know , when I lived down . |
| 18 | I fought down an impulse to kiss it . |
| 19 | I fought down the ghastly urge coming up from my stomach . |
| 20 | Some of it I battered down backwards , having had visions of leaving and eyeball dangling on a branch like a festive light . |
| 21 | I passed down the ward and opened a door at the end of a passage . |
| 22 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 23 | I got down on my knees behind him and pushed the ashtray under his raised leg . |
| 24 | ‘ I got down to it and stopped it . |
| 25 | So I got down an entry , eating it . |
| 26 | K. R. I saw a fellow having an epileptic fit and I got down to hold him while he kicked out . |
| 27 | Doug Wimbish started playing harmonics on that funny Guild bass ( the rubber-stringed Ashbory model — Ed ) and I got down to a really quiet moment , and suddenly Phil just surprised the hell out of us with this keyboard patch ! |
| 28 | ‘ I watched the European championship finals on television but I got down again , disappointed because I was n't there . |
| 29 | He put up some token resistance : he 'd never had my advantages , it was time I got down to some hard work , and so on . |
| 30 | So I got down on my knees in the car showroom and I said : ‘ I want you , Lord Jesus , to come into my life . ’ |