Example sentences of "i [verb] down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre .
2 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 .
3 I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round .
4 I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her .
5 I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky .
6 Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait .
7 There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree .
8 I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather .
9 About 9.30 I sit down with a cup of coffee to read the paper .
10 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 .
11 I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks
12 I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 I flopped down onto a bean bag and took a sip of my tea .
20 I flopped down in the seat but missed and landed on the floor .
21 I bend down to the coke .
22 I came down for the fire , for it was cold in my room .
23 ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said .
24 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 . ’
25 Billy ( Nottingham ) and I came down in the afternoon to help .
26 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 .
27 I walk out to the bus , I get on the bus at the end of Care Street , I walk right along Care Street , right up Dawsons Street , brisk walk and then I 'm walking around the garage , I do n't do that much walking now , the bloody car , but I take a walk at lunchtime and I walk down to the bar , walking , if you walk , that would be total couple of miles a day
28 One night — a Friday — I drove down to the Bois de Boulogne .
29 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 .
30 Aunt Bedelia and I were trying to watch Brookside , but it was an impossible mix , like tripe and onions with Bolognese sauce , so when Otley went down to the pub to see the lads I strolled down to the villa .
  Next page