Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] down [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office … |
| 6 | I — think if I had some fresh air today I should feel much better , if I went down to the sea , perhaps . ’ |
| 7 | I feel I could play , but if I broke down during the game I would be letting down the team and myself . |
| 8 | I found that if I settled down to the tape and the life of Apricot Smith , I became quite comfortable . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Well , it was absolute chaos when I went down to the Press reception before the Women of the Year lunch . |
| 14 | But when I went down to the shop |
| 15 | I knew I had done something when I went down in the tackle . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As I went down in the lift I thought it pretty clever of Purvis to get the bike rider 's licence . |
| 21 | Could it be , I mused , as I snuggled down into the Dodge 's heavily bolstered bucket seat on the autostrada running north of Milan to Switzerland , that Detroit has finally built a competent , European-style sporting saloon ? |
| 22 | Thought of him tonight as I walked down to the river . |
| 23 | Ben was saying the other day that soon they would drop out as I walked down to the shops ! ’ |
| 24 | As I walked down by the riverside one evening in the spring Heard a long gone song from days gone by Blown in on the great North wind Though there is no lonesome corncrake 's cry of sorrow and delight You can hear the cars and the shouts from bars and the laughter , and the fights May the ghosts that howled round the house at night never keep you from your sleep May they all sleep tight down in Hell tonight or wherever they may be … |
| 25 | Taff enquired as I jumped down into the trench beside him . |
| 26 | Taff was in a foul mood as I jumped down into the trench . |
| 27 | I am not a small man , nor am I a weakling , yet the thin Sweetman seemed unconcerned as I jumped down into the cockpit . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As I crouched down in the trench I thought of the French family just a short distance away from us . |
| 30 | I enquired , as I sat down on the floor beside him . |