Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course er when an article became , when you needed an article or something broke down in the car and you needed to m=make something up on the lathe o it was made on the premises . |
| 2 | Buick 's robots either failed to deliver what was promised or they broke down . |
| 3 | Soon , the spaceship left Earth , and everyone looked down at the burning planet . |
| 4 | Eventually , as in most family crises , the initial shock wore off , and everyone simmered down . |
| 5 | The one you 're walking out with , the one Gazzer and me saw down the prom . ’ |
| 6 | High on a mountain we paused and I looked down on Lough Nafooey , a lake lying far below us . |
| 7 | The second I walked off the set , a wave of pain hit me and I looked down at my grazed shins and one swollen knee . |
| 8 | But Robin-Anne did not react , and I looked down to see that she was not watching for the new day , but was crying . |
| 9 | But then they twitched again and I looked down to see , just above the sill , the curls and bright blue eyes of a snub-nosed child . |
| 10 | And you know this time when I went on a plane and I looked down , I was n't saying it to Ben |
| 11 | We flew above the skeletal radio mast and I stared down at the row of huge houses . |
| 12 | It was difficult to talk with the engine going , and I stared down through fifty or sixty feet of water to patches of pale rock starred black with sea-urchins . |
| 13 | K. R. I saw a fellow having an epileptic fit and I got down to hold him while he kicked out . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | And I wrote down , that they were on a doing Anthems of the Nations . |
| 19 | The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor . |
| 20 | ‘ There was no sign to say the drain was uncovered and I fell down it , cutting my leg and ankle and ruining my shoes , socks and slacks , ’ he writes . |
| 21 | and I went into the kitchen and I fell down , first time in my life , I 've never passed out , not |
| 22 | I 've seen this fella on the back of the bus with his bird and that and I walked down and was sitting by them and he was tooting gear , y'know , behind the back seat like that and he threw a load of gear over to me and said : ‘ Here , d' you want some of this ? ’ , y'know , monging , off his head , like . |
| 23 | In early 1981 , the Israelis had staged an air raid against the Rashidiyeh Palestinian camp — where Mrs Zamzam had her home — and I drove down to southern Lebanon from Beirut to report on the attack . |
| 24 | Derek and I drove down there and shut off the whole barn , preventing all means of getting in or out . |
| 25 | Susan and I sauntered down the aisle and took seats a few rows back . |
| 26 | and I reached down to er |
| 27 | Having agreed that this was a good idea , David and I went down to a pub called The Three Tuns , which is in Beckenham High Street . |
| 28 | I realised things might not be the same nowadays so , ten days before the conference , my assistant Joanne and I went down to Covent Garden ( which is now at Nine Elms ) and had a trial run . |
| 29 | It was early morning and I went down to answer a bang on the front door of Dad 's house . |
| 30 | So Ron and I went down to Broadlands , the country house on the Test at Romsey which had once belonged to Lord Palmerston and was later left to Edwina Mountbatten , the admiral 's wife . |