Example sentences of "i [vb past] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thou left me speyed down wi ’ the family . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I skidded down the escarpment in high spirits and made a bee-line for the town . |
| 4 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 5 | Yes , and I , and I wiped down one side |
| 6 | In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I lived down there for about five years . |
| 11 | Oh , you know , when I lived down . |
| 12 | I fought down an impulse to kiss it . |
| 13 | I fought down the ghastly urge coming up from my stomach . |
| 14 | Some of it I battered down backwards , having had visions of leaving and eyeball dangling on a branch like a festive light . |
| 15 | I passed down the ward and opened a door at the end of a passage . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I got down on my knees behind him and pushed the ashtray under his raised leg . |
| 18 | ‘ I got down to it and stopped it . |
| 19 | So I got down an entry , eating it . |
| 20 | K. R. I saw a fellow having an epileptic fit and I got down to hold him while he kicked out . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | ‘ I watched the European championship finals on television but I got down again , disappointed because I was n't there . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So I got down on my knees in the car showroom and I said : ‘ I want you , Lord Jesus , to come into my life . ’ |
| 25 | I got down beside him . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 28 | I took the coach , and after thirty-six hours of travelling I got down at Thornfield village , and almost ran across the fields in my hurry to see the well-known house again , and its owner . |
| 29 | I got down on my knees behind the animal with the feeling that I was on my own . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's also time I got down to thinking positively about this show . |