Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this was a wee sort of lump that I had down at the bottom of my vagina . |
| 2 | But it made sense at least to stretch my cramped legs , so I strolled down to the edge of the lake and lit a cigarette . |
| 3 | ’ So I went down to the canal . |
| 4 | It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport . |
| 5 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 6 | We flew above the skeletal radio mast and I stared down at the row of huge houses . |
| 7 | And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were . |
| 8 | And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees . |
| 9 | there and I went down to the at and he said we got your lintel in mate , do you want to take it ? |
| 10 | So and I went down in the pool this morning |
| 11 | Andy and I went down by the river and the loch , clambering up the rocks upstream then back down , watching fish jump lazily out on the calm loch , or strike at the insects speckling those flat waters , jaws snapping underneath ; dispatching , swallowing , leaving ripples . |
| 12 | Billy ( Nottingham ) and I came down in the afternoon to help . |
| 13 | I went into a toilet and there was none and I sat down on the toilet , looked up , they were all above the door , five of them ! |
| 14 | We had a very impromptu meal which was brought out from somewhere near Bahrain because our landing area was in a small offshore sand strip where the Nos 55 and 84 Squadron aircraft ( also a Valentia from No 70 Squadron , which was our support aircraft ) were all based overnight and I went to sleep in this hot and humid place , The humidity factor at Bahrain was very high indeed , in the 90s , but I went to sleep quite comfortably on a groundsheet having dug a little hole for my not very considerable hips , weighing very little above 9 stone , and I settled down for the night . |
| 15 | As Taff and I ducked down into the trench I upset the remains of my meal over the floor . |
| 16 | They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office … |
| 17 | I — think if I had some fresh air today I should feel much better , if I went down to the sea , perhaps . ’ |
| 18 | I feel I could play , but if I broke down during the game I would be letting down the team and myself . |
| 19 | I found that if I settled down to the tape and the life of Apricot Smith , I became quite comfortable . |
| 20 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 21 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 22 | ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said . |
| 23 | ‘ No , but I went down to the quay one Sunday and I heard her . |
| 24 | The back was broken and there was only one plank left to sit on , but I sat down on the peeling green paint . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead . |
| 27 | Well , it was absolute chaos when I went down to the Press reception before the Women of the Year lunch . |
| 28 | But when I went down to the shop |
| 29 | I knew I had done something when I went down in the tackle . ’ |
| 30 | Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to . |