Example sentences of "i [vb base] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
| 2 | ‘ As soon as I track down Carol , I 'm free . |
| 3 | See now what his power is , for the day when I sate down before Juballa I had no more than four loaves of bread , and now by God 's mercy I have won Valencia . |
| 4 | I mean down , when we 've done down here we 've pu god been putting mats down and lord knows what |
| 5 | It 's twenty one miles from Northampton , they never cla I mean down here people think Northampton is in the north . |
| 6 | Am I not guilty of the same essentialist fallacy if I tear down Ormrod J. 's thesis simply to erect my own property-based ‘ essence ’ which conveniently allows me , then , to advance my argument concerning homosexual unions ? |
| 7 | erm , I like to talk , so he 's wound down , you know , really sleepy , comes to bed , and I 'm like , that 's when I wind down by chatting away and saying , you know , little snippets of things that have happened to you during the day , and he 's just like , oh , shut up , go to sleep , you know . |
| 8 | I kneel down and drink from the renewing , strengthening , sacred spring . |
| 9 | I sit down too . |
| 10 | There 's still a couple of beat up chairs there and I sit down in one of them . |
| 11 | I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round . |
| 12 | I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal . |
| 13 | There 's a wooden bench by the side of the path , so I sit down and stretch my legs out . |
| 14 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 15 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 16 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 17 | I dress in haste and at ten I sit down to compose until about twelve or half past twelve . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you mind if I sit down ? ’ asked the young man in effete , accented English . |
| 19 | I sit down Upon its bank and remove my shoes and socks . |
| 20 | I sit down with Paul Franklin every now and then and we swap licks — just basically show each other what we know . |
| 21 | For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I certainly find that if I sit down and play blues for forty-five minutes or an hour , it 's hard to get back into the rock feel . |
| 23 | ‘ I sit down and say to myself , how can I convert a mileage reading of one hundred and fifty thousand into only ten thousand without taking the speedometer to pieces ? |
| 24 | When I sit down they billow up in front of me and I look as if I 've got a water melon under there . |
| 25 | I wait until my husband 's doing the late shift , and I wait until the children have gone to bed , and I sit down in front of the television . |
| 26 | About 9.30 I sit down with a cup of coffee to read the paper . |
| 27 | ‘ Anybody mind if I sit down ? ’ |
| 28 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 29 | There are days when I sit down and my mind goes back to prison , when I 'd be looking out the window , thinking , I wish I was out there , you know , doing something . |
| 30 | I sit down here in the absolute silence with my reflection , in a sort of state of mystery . |