Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw Changez 's eyes fall caressingly on his wife 's form and then rest on his prostitute 's grooving hips as the two of them got down to Martha Reeves and the Vandellas . |
| 2 | And most of them moved down to Green as soon as it was built . |
| 3 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 4 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 5 | In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre . |
| 6 | I regret the fact that the hon. Member for Livingston saw fit not to answer the challenge that I laid down to him , just as he has not answered any of the challenges that I have laid down to him today , and that he has also seen fit to put the hon. Lady , on her first outing today , into a rather difficult position . |
| 7 | You see , we 'd got such confidence that she told me that when he died , she said , ‘ He died in his bed here ’ , that we were in , you see ; and she said , ‘ I then closed his eyes and I laid down with him till the morning so that nobody should be disturbed . ’ |
| 8 | I got down beside him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I got down to it and stopped it . |
| 11 | Doug Wimbish started playing harmonics on that funny Guild bass ( the rubber-stringed Ashbory model — Ed ) and I got down to a really quiet moment , and suddenly Phil just surprised the hell out of us with this keyboard patch ! |
| 12 | He put up some token resistance : he 'd never had my advantages , it was time I got down to some hard work , and so on . |
| 13 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's also time I got down to thinking positively about this show . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Aye er the when I was I got better and I got down to and there was a fella come to look and see me . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I got down to eleven stone and then I stuck |
| 19 | I got down to ten stone . |
| 20 | But I got down to ten stone . |
| 21 | I got down to ten |
| 22 | I took the coach , and after thirty-six hours of travelling I got down at Thornfield village , and almost ran across the fields in my hurry to see the well-known house again , and its owner . |
| 23 | I got down on my knees behind him and pushed the ashtray under his raised leg . |
| 24 | So I got down on my knees in the car showroom and I said : ‘ I want you , Lord Jesus , to come into my life . ’ |
| 25 | I got down on my knees behind the animal with the feeling that I was on my own . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 28 | I kneeled down by Ben in the mud and found he was still unconscious . |
| 29 | ‘ I sank down on my knees and thrust my fingers into the dry warm sand . ’ |
| 30 | I sank down into my bed and cried . |