Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] down [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social worker said I should get out of the house , so I got enticed down to Age Concern and passed the afternoon there . |
| 2 | The day I came here I 'd gone down to Age Concern — I used to go there for meetings and bingo — and I told them I was n't stopping because I 'd no money . |
| 3 | He said you 'd have no idea where to start and , in any event , he had bribed two shepherds to say I 'd gone down to Foxton Mire . |
| 4 | I 'd 've been quicker if I 'd gone down into Brentwood , picked up the M twenty five and gone on the A one M |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , he is famous for it and I believe sent down from Oxford for it . |
| 6 | I had travelled down to Punta Arenas , which the biblical authority of the South American Handbook said was the best jumping-off point . |
| 7 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 8 | I do n't think I 've come down to earth since the day I met her . ’ |
| 9 | One evening , as they worked happily together , feeding and attending to the livestock , George said , ‘ I 'll just take a walk along the beck before we settle down , and check those sheep I 've brought down for lambing . ’ |
| 10 | Since then I 've settled down to 8st 4 . |
| 11 | Never cancelled d I 've cancelled down like equations and things . |