Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 2 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 3 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 4 | On the Monday I tried to settle down to a meeting at Alexander Fleming House ( the DHSS 's headquarters at the Elephant and Castle ) with Tony Newton who had joined the department as Parliamentary Secretary for Social Security . |
| 5 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 6 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 7 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 8 | Just after six , with darkness falling , I decided to go down to the bar for a drink , was pulling on my jacket when the phone went . |
| 9 | I needed to sit down for a minute . |
| 10 | And I went storming down to the office , did n't I ? |
| 11 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
| 12 | The parade I had to lead down from the station to the beat was much longer on nights . |
| 13 | Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone . |
| 14 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 15 | Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him . |
| 16 | Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her . |
| 17 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 18 | Just before getting in the trucks , I had wandered down to the rooms where the crippled legionnaires lived . |
| 19 | I hoped to go down to the desert at Zagora . |
| 20 | I stood looking down at the pavement below the payphone while Dennis padded across the wall-to-wall carpeting and called distantly to his wife . |
| 21 | ‘ If I wanted to settle down for a quiet read I 'd prefer the Kensington public library . |