Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | I been coming down here watering most nights . ’ |
| 2 | When Cousteau comes back with the divers and equipment , Van Gelder and I are going down with them to have a look at this plane . |
| 3 | I am slowing down . |
| 4 | I am get down I am going to miss you . |
| 5 | Oh I see , I am laying down precise quotas so my staff can see at once if things are n't up to scratch . |
| 6 | I am looking down on the world , but it does not stretch away over nebulous distant horizons . |
| 7 | Since the UK dole is so little , that is self evident , and indeed I am writing down all I spend which concentrates the mind appropriately , given that the standing orders for gas and power go on . |
| 8 | –This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 9 | ‘ This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 10 | ‘ Gee , ’ says the inexperienced Masters contestant , ‘ I only won the Paduca Classic and here I am driving down Magnolia Drive to the Masters . |
| 11 | By the time I am sitting down to breakfast I ask myself , ‘ Where would I go ? ’ ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Bob , ’ she repeated , ‘ I 've got a grip on myself — and I am sitting down . |
| 13 | Now it 's my very great pleasure to I think probably introduce the youngest member of our audience here today and a very good supporter of Save The Children erm I am sitting down soon beside Elise who 's travelled all the way from Norwich . |
| 14 | I am sitting down here thank you very |
| 15 | I have realised that I am no longer a spring chicken by tour standards — 28 in February — and the wrinkles are starting to appear , so , to prolong my career and my enthusiasm for the game , I am cutting down . |
| 16 | I am pulled down , spread out . |
| 17 | " I am going down , " she whispered , and before Maria Candida could stop her , had gathered her skirts and was running down to the hall . |
| 18 | ‘ The job took over my life , although I 'm slowing down a bit now , ’ he says . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm tracking down something called the Presley hoard . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't know my lines and I 'm dragging down the rest of the cast . ’ |
| 21 | So I 'm zooming down , which I thought must have been fifty mile an hour , but it was probably only about five really , or ten , but er put the brake on for the platform to stop , no chance , it just kept going . |
| 22 | And he had to do that every year in order to satisfy his stance his hat that he was wearing , that he was actually being the boss , and knocking the workers down , look I 'm holding down , what twenty-two point on six , er and he believed that my need was that I could go back to my manager , and say , look I got him up to two point one , . |
| 23 | Rope 's not rope , ‘ s elastic , ‘ s getting longer and longer , I 'm going down , an' down , an' down — I 'm looking down — an' 's a whirlpool — steaming … ’ |
| 24 | I 'm looking down the garden that 's lovely ! |
| 25 | Well I 'm hanging down like this to increase the circulation to my head |
| 26 | Here I am , Serafin , writing my shopping list on the first piece of paper that comes to hand and what I 'm writing down is two shirts for myself and one for my son . |
| 27 | I 'm wanted down there . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm goin' down the Town ‘ All an' 'ave a word wiv that medical bloke . |
| 29 | What I do , when I 'm sent down here , is sums and tables . |
| 30 | Ma and Luke are relieved to see that I 'm settling down at last . |