Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ’ So I went down to the canal . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I find some steps , so I go down into the park and have a wander round . |
| 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 | ‘ And I 'm frightened that if I go down to the cellars I might die . ’ |
| 7 | And if I come down with a sore throat now , I 'll know who to blame . |
| 8 | They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office … |
| 9 | I — think if I had some fresh air today I should feel much better , if I went down to the sea , perhaps . ’ |
| 10 | I feel I could play , but if I broke down during the game I would be letting down the team and myself . |
| 11 | I found that if I settled down to the tape and the life of Apricot Smith , I became quite comfortable . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | She said : ‘ It is a trip of a lifetime and something I want to do before I settle down with a career . |
| 15 | which I shall not attempt to conceal from you , but before I come down to the details let me say that Darwinism occupies such a central position in evolutionary biology — in biology as a whole , not just in evolutionary biology but in the whole of biology — that any important , new idea in biology has to be , to some extent , judged by its compatibility with , or its contradictions of , the Darwinian position . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Does this mean when I go upstairs to bed , I ought to reset my watch when I come down in the morning because it 's got out of step with the clocks downstairs ? ’ |
| 19 | When I go down on the table-cloths , the water runs over my hand . |
| 20 | ‘ If you get through all right , I 'll take you with me when I go down to the village after evening milking . |
| 21 | Yes I know I 'll take it when I go down to the post office and I keep forgetting , do n't like bothering with it on Thursday because they 've always got a shop full and I go |
| 22 | Surkov , in a Yale T-shirt , was sitting alone at a table when I went down to a late breakfast . |
| 23 | Well , it was absolute chaos when I went down to the Press reception before the Women of the Year lunch . |
| 24 | But when I went down to the shop |
| 25 | I knew I had done something when I went down in the tackle . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 28 | The festivities started with a parade through the town led by the Houlton Silver Band and as I looked down from the windows of our bed-sitter I could see them all gathering in the street below . |
| 29 | I remember a December night : I heard the church clock strike nine as I went down into the garden — it was warm enough to walk . |
| 30 | This , sadly was my last foray for the month as I went down with an attack of bronchitis soon after this expedition , and form which I have not fully recovered . |