Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] down in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I settled down in the straw-filled barn that I had left a few moments ago in search of food , I looked around at the now sleeping Frenchman , stretched out in the straw . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness . |
| 4 | So I sat down in the warm , and ate the man 's breakfast . |
| 5 | She sat down in the one comfortable chair ; it had come from their housekeeper 's room , and had found its way to Billy 's kitchen , like the strip of Turkey carpet with the hole in the middle . |
| 6 | Although average 1989 wage increases , at 9.5 per cent , ran well ahead of output , they slowed down in the fourth quarter , possibly helping to reduce the budget deficit to about 75 per cent of its planned level . |
| 7 | Then they sat down in the great dining hall to drink . |
| 8 | ‘ Because one thing 's for certain , Charlie Trumper , ’ she told him as they sat down in the little room at the back of Salmon 's to check the monthly accounts , ‘ you do n't know the first thing about butchery . |
| 9 | He knelt down in the constricted space . |
| 10 | Then he sat down in the great oak chair by the fire and enjoyed his tea . |
| 11 | He sat down in the big easy-chair beside the kitchen range , took me on his knee and read me a story . |
| 12 | In 1889 Schnadhorst 's own candidature in Newcastle under Lyme was approved but he stood down in the following year because of ill health . |