Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 5 | Just before getting in the trucks , I had wandered down to the rooms where the crippled legionnaires lived . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She became bogged down by the very size of the country , the lengthy supply lines , her inability to have her army spread thickly on the ground , the increasingly effective guerilla warfare waged by the Chinese communists , as well as by debilitating rivalries within the Japanese army itself . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She 'd stayed down in the lane with a sullen look on her face . |
| 11 | She 'd gone down to the seashore with the dogs and there he 'd been , following her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For , when she had woken up , rather late that morning , her usual brightness had been replaced by a quiet , sinking unhappiness , and instead of getting straight out of bed and opening the curtains to see what kind of weather was there , she had huddled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 . |
| 14 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But she was gone , she had run down in the thick tree shadows to a side street , was down that and in the busy main street within sixty seconds after she had thrown the stone . |
| 17 | She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her . |
| 18 | After her abortive attempt to break into journalism , she had gone down to the beach , flung off her dress , and plunged into the water at Backyards . |
| 19 | He watched her go alone , the trappings she had brought down to the beach left abandoned . |
| 20 | She was not proud to have been the cause of splitting her family up ; nor could she forget how her father 's love had turned to disgust ; and how could she easily reveal the shame which she had brought down on the Wards ? |
| 21 | She held up the notes she had copied down from the drums in the German docks . |
| 22 | At first he had assumed that she had climbed down to the lower deck and gone forward . |
| 23 | She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place . |
| 24 | And then she had lain down in the dark , naked but for her flimsy shawl , the window open to let in the night , and waited . |
| 25 | It was the first time she had sat down during the lesson . |
| 26 | Mr Farmer said : ‘ You have got down to the core of the problem . |
| 27 | The minute we got settled down in the bottom of our Kalamachka , rocking as if we were inside a boat and ‘ talking about Baghdad ’ , we felt transported to another country . |
| 28 | ‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened . |
| 29 | Well , in actual fact we 've cut down on the boxing bit |
| 30 | You get wet , sweaty , but there 's nothing to dry the sweat off , not sweating and drying off , so they feel clammy , okay , so we 've looked at their colour and we 've felt their skin and we 've felt that it 's horrible and clammy and cold , what about their pulse , we 've gone down to the pulse now |