Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 2 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 3 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
| 4 | The parade I had to lead down from the station to the beat was much longer on nights . |
| 5 | Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone . |
| 6 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 7 | Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him . |
| 8 | Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her . |
| 9 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 10 | Just before getting in the trucks , I had wandered down to the rooms where the crippled legionnaires lived . |
| 11 | Like I said , I 've slowed down in the past for people like that and they have n't you know I do n't think that |
| 12 | On occasion there is n't sufficient water available from the stream or the rainwater tub , and I have to go down to the reservoir , which I call the Mississippi , to rinse the washing . |
| 13 | We 'll need another two or three days here , but I have to go down to the mortuary with the body . |
| 14 | The moon threatens to come out from behind the clouds again and I have to jump down to the paving stones of the patio beneath . |
| 15 | Already , and it is hardly May , I have wandered down to the County Ground at Taunton to see old chums , and some not so old , and to see if I any longer belong . |
| 16 | After a few hours ' driving , we stop by a small lake brimming with clear water which has tumbled down from the escarpment through dense forest . |
| 17 | The members of this parliament immediately set about introducing legislation to reform abuses within the English Catholic church , and during the course of the next seven years they passed a series of statutes which would lead that church into schism and formalize its break with the Roman papacy , which has lasted down to the present day . |
| 18 | The fighting , which had died down during the night , flared again as dawn came , and US Cobra gunships began to fly over Panama City . |
| 19 | This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again . |
| 20 | There are many topographical names which have lasted down to the present in a perfectly straightforward fashion ( the articles or toponymical qualifiers being dropped ) , such as Field , Bridge , Ford , Green , Lake , Lane , Orchard , Townsend , Gate and so on , but others are less obvious in their modern guises — Atwell and Attwood , Byfield and Byway are clear enough as examples in which the definite article has become assimilated , but others like Boveton = above town , and Binetheton — below town , are not so obvious at first sight , neither are Biart — dweller near the enclosure , Stanners = dweller at the stone house , or Leese = dweller by the pasture . |
| 21 | I 've got one friend who has written down in a diary every person he 's ever re arrested , I do n't do that , I just , I , I ca n't be bothered to write it all down . |
| 22 | Erm but I say there , there were a couple of erm objections that came up during the course of the conversation which really resulted because you , you 'd fallen down on the actual structure , but having said that then again there were two or three examples that you apacked and you got through very well and you , you recovered yourself well on that and , and I say really I think that 's er that 's covered most of the bits that , that I felt were , were there . |
| 23 | She 'd stayed down in the lane with a sullen look on her face . |
| 24 | She 'd gone down to the seashore with the dogs and there he 'd been , following her . |
| 25 | They sat around one end of the work table , which now seemed vast and empty , and Alina Peterson explained how she 'd walked down to the village to look around and , where it seemed appropriate , to introduce herself . |
| 26 | For , when she had woken up , rather late that morning , her usual brightness had been replaced by a quiet , sinking unhappiness , and instead of getting straight out of bed and opening the curtains to see what kind of weather was there , she had huddled down between the sheets , reluctant to face anything . |
| 27 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
| 28 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 29 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
| 30 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |