Example sentences of "i [verb] down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother wanted me to go down to the bungalow with them and because I wanted — I wanted our relations to improve — well , I said I would . ’ |
| 2 | He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details . |
| 3 | Also , when he gestured to me to sit down on the mats which covered the floor , I could not but observe two fairly fresh ( tuskless ) skulls above the door by which we had entered . |
| 4 | I stumbled to the first landing before the recurring cramp forced me to sit down on the floor . |
| 5 | In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre . |
| 6 | When we 're in the flat she says she 'll make some coffee , and I sit down on a chair with my carrier by my side . |
| 7 | I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round . |
| 8 | I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her . |
| 9 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 10 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 11 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 12 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 13 | About 9.30 I sit down with a cup of coffee to read the paper . |
| 14 | For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there . |
| 15 | I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks |
| 16 | I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I suppose the reason I got down to an effort to be objective is that I did n't like the interpretations of my other things — so here I am with an array of alligator pears — about ten of them — calla lilies — four or six — leaves — summer green ones — ranging through yellow to the dark sombre blackish purplish red — eight or ten — horrid yellow sunflowers — two new red cannas — some white birches with yellow leaves — only two that I have no name for and I do n't know where they come from . |
| 20 | And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were . |
| 21 | I wept a little as I climbed the creaky stairs , and when I got into the attic I knelt down beside the bed , put my hands together and prayed . |
| 22 | I wandered down to the kitchens where Wolsey 's chefs were busy creating subtleties , strange confectionery creations : towers and castles of sugar ready to launch their assault on valiant teeth . |
| 23 | I flopped down onto a bean bag and took a sip of my tea . |
| 24 | I flopped down in the seat but missed and landed on the floor . |
| 25 | I bend down to the coke . |
| 26 | I came down for the fire , for it was cold in my room . |
| 27 | ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said . |
| 28 | Fortunately it did n't go off , but it made a hell of a mess , and I came down in a shell-hole just outside our wire . ’ |
| 29 | Billy ( Nottingham ) and I came down in the afternoon to help . |
| 30 | The figures that I quoted were given in a written answer to a question that I put down about the cutbacks in regional preferential assistance . |