Example sentences of "i [vb past] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I flopped down in the seat but missed and landed on the floor . |
| 7 | I came down for the fire , for it was cold in my room . |
| 8 | ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Billy ( Nottingham ) and I came down in the afternoon to help . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Approaching Keld I dropped down into the dale where Great Sleddale Beck falls over a succession of stairs , hard bands of limestone that have resisted the action of the water to form an impressive series of falls all of which are within a mile or so of Keld village . |
| 13 | I dropped down in the boat again , looking over my shoulder at the shore . |
| 14 | I dropped down from the loch only to find that the terrain was considerably steeper than I recalled on the way up , although the compass said I was doing fine . |
| 15 | As Taff and I ducked down into the trench I upset the remains of my meal over the floor . |
| 16 | I ducked down behind the garden wall until the firing ceased . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When all the girls left the schoolroom at five o'clock , I climbed down from the chair and sat on the floor . |
| 19 | After crossing several fields I turned down to the right to follow a metalled road for a while until I reached the first real treat of the day , the Roman road . |
| 20 | I wriggled down underneath the contraption and found a fourth , barely alive . |
| 21 | Thought of him tonight as I walked down to the river . |
| 22 | So I walked down to the sea and before long , I was at the ship and was swimming round it . |
| 23 | I walked down to the town centre , which reminded me of an English country town , with shops of every kind . |
| 24 | The Ptarmigan was closed , and so I walked down beneath the ski-tow towards the road . |
| 25 | 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 … |
| 26 | I swung down at the bottom , deciding to go head first , face up , curling my back down into the soft river bed , praying … |
| 27 | I glanced down at the kitchen . |
| 28 | I glanced down at the limb I was illustratively wiggling , only to find an involuntary erection making my trousers stick out like an accusing finger . |
| 29 | I glanced down at the lissom length of her spine . |
| 30 | ‘ Actually , I happen to have-a flask of Scotch on me , just in case I broke down on the road … |