Example sentences of "[pron] [be] down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did it with erm , with er , I went from one and a half and I 'm down to one , 'cos I was , I I 've tasted my father 's sometimes , 'cos he thinks two and a half , he used to take three , and I 'm like aw it 's |
| 2 | cos the client might be in a position of saying , well , after six months , I 'm down to half salary , so you might have sold this plan , to pick up the other half , |
| 3 | I 'm down like this ! |
| 4 | Then I would be accused of being a racist , take this for example , I was down at lower school , I had a black girl in my class , she did something or another . |
| 5 | ‘ I slipped it in my pocket and forgot about it till one day when I was down at yon ford and I took a swig and , by God , it 's potent . ’ |
| 6 | There has been criticism of my buying but most were hired in a crisis when I was down to eight fit men . |
| 7 | In 1982 , when the Israeli army surrounded Beirut and the Palestinian guerrillas agreed to leave , I was down in those same front lines , invited by a Palestinian gunman to push the last sandbags from his position now that the final ceasefire had been called . |
| 8 | ‘ I told her I 'd try and see you while I was down in this part of the world . ’ |
| 9 | His assistant Julian immediately offers me coffee , and explains in apologetic tones that Tony has been called out — ‘ but you 're down for 11.30 ’ — and that he 's expecting him back any moment . |
| 10 | Well if you want facts and figures on it we can give you it but I 'll tell you what it 's meant to I 'll tell you what it 's meant training service I can tell you what it 's meant to the royal dockyards which we 've got to talk about yet from thirteen thousand , in some instances you 're down to five . |
| 11 | Oh you 're down to two now |
| 12 | Pedal steel players do much the same kind of thing , but they 're lucky because they 've got loads of strings to play around with ; when you 're a guitar player and you 're down to six , you have to break it down and come up with some simpler versions . ’ |
| 13 | count them out , oh you 're down to eight now ? |
| 14 | When you 're down like that you just have to keep getting the ball into the box and that 's what I did . |
| 15 | Well she 's down to six stone eleven . |
| 16 | You know she 's doing the count down little red things she 's got that she swallows she 's down to five , I think it 's five . |
| 17 | The biggest programme faces Foggo , who is down for 11 events , including her Olympic races of 400m and 800m freestyle , but she is unlikely to compete in them all . |
| 18 | She was down to 99 in two hours . |
| 19 | Sandy Lane , we 're now erm , we 're down to eleven of the eighteen units occupied at Sandy Lane . |
| 20 | Erm , I was going to mention , as Rob has done the increase in new complaints , which I think is somewhat welcome erm , we 're still taking a long time from the averages over the last twelve months , I think that 's just reflecting being out some days over the ones you 've been talking about , er , we 're down on actual stage one equipments in the month erm , we 're not quite sure why that is , mm it 's just the way things have panned out . |
| 21 | We after all , bring our expenditure down , we 're down near two million pounds under new cap capping rules . |
| 22 | And then we were down to five shillings a week , there was four of us you see , five shillings a week relief . |
| 23 | And we were down to sixty seconds when the referee did Watford another favour spotting an elbow in the face and sticking to his guns . |
| 24 | ‘ I am very proud of what he and the rest of the team did in the second half when we were down to ten men , ’ said Smith . |
| 25 | Average hourly earnings in agriculture were nearly three-quarters of those in industry in the late 1940s ; today they are down to less than two-thirds . |
| 26 | So it 's a bit frightening when you think a pensioner 's money may have been in that account at thirteen fifty on a , on ten thousand invested , and now they 're down to seven hundred . |
| 27 | Five well what time does it start , five past ? as long as they 're down before half past seven . |
| 28 | At one stage in the game they were down to 11 men , but their shortcomings should not be allowed to detract from Warrington 's impressively positive performance , the home side contributing much that was memorable in a thrilling and thunderously received encounter . |
| 29 | The 1861 census enumerator had caught the family at the height of its expansion ; 10 years later they were down to two children , one of whom would be leaving home very shortly . |
| 30 | The Orkney variety is extinct and the Shetland is critically low in numbers : at one stage they were down to 35 purebred cows and two bulls . |