Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] down for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I phoned down for some eggs , toast and a quart of coffee . |
| 2 | I came down for the fire , for it was cold in my room . |
| 3 | We had a very impromptu meal which was brought out from somewhere near Bahrain because our landing area was in a small offshore sand strip where the Nos 55 and 84 Squadron aircraft ( also a Valentia from No 70 Squadron , which was our support aircraft ) were all based overnight and I went to sleep in this hot and humid place , The humidity factor at Bahrain was very high indeed , in the 90s , but I went to sleep quite comfortably on a groundsheet having dug a little hole for my not very considerable hips , weighing very little above 9 stone , and I settled down for the night . |
| 4 | On one occasion I lay down for a rest , dozed off for 15 minutes , and awoke to find half a dozen sitting on branches within a few metres of my recumbent form . |
| 5 | ‘ I lay down for a rest after lunch and was about to drift into sleep when there was a definite pop inside me , which made me think my waters had broken . |
| 6 | Well , I went down for that Christmas . |
| 7 | What , when I went down for , so I called back later , about half an hour later and she was awake so I just took her then . |
| 8 | And like I went down for that one Monday . |
| 9 | I sat down for my picnic . |
| 10 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 11 | Richard said he 'd invite me over next time she came down for the weekend . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I have to go out today , ’ Fernando told her when she came down for breakfast on the terrace the next morning . |
| 13 | well she came down for Keith 's sake , she came down to Bournemouth for holidays and erm like it so much she brought the company . |
| 14 | She reached down for her handbag on the floor . |
| 15 | And when she went down for a cup of tea , her mother mentioned casually that Parr had gone to Belfast , not to England as expected , although she did not know why . |
| 16 | It was n't Angela 's boss cos she asked h she went down for you this mor er half past twelve . |
| 17 | The 50-year-old child killer suffered a black eye , bruises and minor cuts as she sat down for a meal at Cookham Wood jail in Kent . |
| 18 | Mr Whinnett said : ‘ Joanna was in a state of pure terror and , although she sat down for a while , she most certainly did not sleep . ’ |
| 19 | When she went into the rest room she sat down for a minute while waiting for Peggy to come out of the lavatory . |
| 20 | At the end of one particularly difficult morning surgery , she sat down for coffee with a long sigh of relief . |
| 21 | An ironical cheer went up at this and we settled down for the night . |
| 22 | Pipes and cigarettes glowed in the darkness as we settled down for the six-hour passage . |
| 23 | As we sat down for Cabinet I told Nigel that we must meet afterwards . |
| 24 | Then we sat down for a rest under a hedge , and Dana asked that typically American question : ‘ Do you want to talk about it ? ’ |
| 25 | Because I was at home , we sat down for two hours and talked it through . |
| 26 | The service started with our opening carol , ‘ Away in a Manger ’ and continued with all the normal Christmas readings ; after the gospel we sat down for the nativity play , which was performed by a section from the armoured car squadron . |
| 27 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 28 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 29 | The first women doctors and lawyers , the women artists and writers , the politicians and trades unionists , the women who came out as lesbians ; and before them the witches and the suffragettes : the paths we walk so freely are paths they laid down for us . |
| 30 | Once the eagles had got used to the return of Minch they settled down for the summer months . |