Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] down a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extract 1 : The ghost One day me met a witch Jamaica [ inaudible ] me ( gor ra ) mother — me saw her dere , me sit down an she tell me all the story alrigh% ? |
| 2 | Jeff Richer had choreographed the salacious routine , which began with me oozing down a cat-walk in a long black velvet evening coat and sliding it off my shoulders as I turn to camera revealing the lace gown . |
| 3 | I fought down an impulse to kiss it . |
| 4 | ‘ Could n't I stay down a bit longer , please ? ’ |
| 5 | So I got down an entry , eating it . |
| 6 | Williams attempts to show that if we examined the commonplace idea of equality of opportunity thoroughly , we find ourselves carried down a sort of ‘ slippery slope ’ towards insisting that only if everybody has succeeded to the same degree can we be sure that there has been genuine equality of opportunity . |
| 7 | But I slip down a couple of back roads and I find it soon enough . |
| 8 | I changed down an octave on ‘ … time , and the living is eas … ’ and up again on ‘ … sy . ' ’ |
| 9 | Willie was in the town garage , giving good advice to someone stripping down a motor bike . |
| 10 | Picture to yourself the furore which they will make in the world when people read on the title-page that they have been composed by a seven-year-old child ; and when the sceptics are challenged to test him , as he already has been , imagine the sensation when he asks someone to write down a minuet or some tune or other and then immediately and without touching the clavier writes in the bass and , if it is wanted , the second violin part … every day God performs fresh miracles through this child . |
| 11 | I cut down a big tree , and then began to make a long hole in it . |
| 12 | Well , then how do you explain the night I put down a copy of Viz , turned on the telly , and settled in for what I thought would be a programme of smart , irreverent comedy ? |
| 13 | I put down a bit less than I had been drinking . |
| 14 | So I put down a hundred thousand in cash and took out an eighty-thousand mortgage . ’ |
| 15 | I am sharply aware of every move I make , each crack of sound as I put down a cup , each dull ring as I move a spoon , each splash of water , squeak of the tap , thud of my shoe on the floor . |
| 16 | Although we are now debating a piece of works legislation , it represents a major reform of parliamentary procedure , so I put down a marker at this stage to the effect that the Minister should be more forthcoming in considering whether we should have new procedures for dealing with orders . |
| 17 | Blissfully unaware that I had no obligation to sign any agreement , I put down a ten-pound deposit the same afternoon . |
| 18 | I played down a ball from Merv Hughes . |
| 19 | Upon receiving a degree which would allow me to undertake research , I turned down a place which I had been offered to study theology , and went to Oxford . |
| 20 | ‘ I turned down a new contract at the end of the season , even though it meant getting a testimonial next year because I 've got to be playing in the Premier League to confirm my place in the Irish side . |
| 21 | I turned down a couple of T V series cos I did n't feel I was right for them . |
| 22 | A television play or four weeks away in repertory was OK , but I finally lost my agent when I turned down an interview for a job in June , ‘ because I 'll be picking the gooseberries ’ . |
| 23 | I scramble down a muddy , leaf-littered bank and into a chilly stream at the bottom ; it flows over one boot and I whisper , ‘ Shit ’ and squelch up the far bank , holding onto the cold branches of bushes and the mud-slimy roots of trees . |
| 24 | Someone clattered down a wooden staircase . |
| 25 | By means best not mentioned I tracked down a living link with Martha . |
| 26 | The four Commandos on the 3″ mortar were still firing their bombs , each as it left the muzzle of the mortar making a distinctive musical sound like someone blowing down a length of drainpipe . |
| 27 | I think I settled down a few years back . |
| 28 | ‘ How have I brought down a Cabinet Minister ? |
| 29 | As I looked down a tube as empty as Outer Space , I pushed away from my board and dove for the bottom . |
| 30 | When I go down a steep or longish hill , braking on the engine , by the time I 've reached the bottom the engine seems to be suffering from fuel starvation and consequently refuses to go up the other side . |