Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one you 're walking out with , the one Gazzer and me saw down the prom . ’ |
| 2 | Susan and I sauntered down the aisle and took seats a few rows back . |
| 3 | The clock struck one and I went down the lunch in Hall . |
| 4 | Well er as I say , I 've always been a union member but then when I was self-employed it was different and I kept me fees up for a , to somewhere I do n't know what it was , but er when er yes , when er I was coming to come on me own and I went down the locksmith 's to see about it and they said er , what did they say now , they said you could n't do that , whatever it was , and er we 'll have to do this and that and the other . |
| 5 | When Jean and I went down the toaster was put on . |
| 6 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 7 | Benjamin and I slithered down the bank . |
| 8 | There were no lavatories on the station , or only filthy ones , so she and I chased down the line and out to the fields every ten minutes or so — poor Mig , she was so good and patient . |
| 9 | It was her ‘ wait ’ and she sped down the stone staircase ahead of the lumbering old man and snatched up the receiver . |
| 10 | I tapped on the glass , and she wound down the window . |
| 11 | Like that right , and she walked down the bus and this , the policeman said to the bus driver , oh you 'll have to hang on a wee minute because I have to speak to this woman here . |
| 12 | She felt rage flood through her and she fought down the impulse to scream — that was just what he was waiting for . |
| 13 | And she put down the telephone . |
| 14 | They said goodbye and she put down the phone . |
| 15 | And they went down the shelter . |
| 16 | Carefully , the major turned the conversation to an Iranian editorial he had seen , and they laid down the subject . |
| 17 | Ginny twisted towards him and they slid down the bed . |
| 18 | Eventually I called the police and they broke down the door . |
| 19 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
| 20 | And he put down the phone . |
| 21 | The room was hot when he entered , and he turned down the thermostat on the wall . |
| 22 | As in the Million , Teleprompter soon had the field at full pelt , and he tore down the back stretch and round the final bend . |
| 23 | So every night he put the snake through the air-vent , and it went down the bell-rope on to the bed . |
| 24 | She stood in a large yard with a glass of white wine in her hand and it spilt down the front of her red dress when she jumped at the banging noise of a firework . |
| 25 | But I went down the bottom of this street , and the man stood there waiting for me . |
| 26 | I woke feeling good , eager to get back to the Hall , but I wrote down the dream first , thinking I would tell it to Edward . |
| 27 | But she laid down the rebec on her knees , and looked up at Bénezet with a fiercely thoughtful face . |
| 28 | The engaged tone bleeping in Robyn 's ear confirmed the good sense of this judgement , but she put down the receiver reluctantly . |
| 29 | But he got down the pit , after you know whe after the War . |
| 30 | On his death the people of Clermont elected the comes Genesius , but he turned down the office , because , as a layman , he regarded the appointment as uncanonical . |