Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] down [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh erm let me slow down this bit , erm no it 's twen , oh it is twenty six ninety nine anywhere else , I 've seen it but in Argos , Wi , well William looked in the catalogue on Tuesday for me , but he said it was nineteen ninety nine in Argos |
| 2 | When Sal and Kitty first set eyes on my prize , they could n't stop jumping up and down with excitement and even helped me to paint down one side , ‘ Charlie Trumper , the honest trader , founded in 1823 ’ . |
| 3 | He told her to fetch a pencil and paper and when she brought them scribbled down several sentences in capital letters . |
| 4 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 5 | Yes , and I , and I wiped down one side |
| 6 | I dust down another box and put it on top of the one I am perching on , to bring it up to the height of a normal chair . |
| 7 | I cut down young trees and put them in the ground , in a half-circle around the front of my tent . |
| 8 | I put down four revolts in towns you would n't even notice if you rode through them . |
| 9 | I just do n't see how they can waste that money , but there you are , I said that one day , I , I put down that fact today |
| 10 | ‘ I think it 's time I put down some roots . ’ |
| 11 | I put down more concentration |
| 12 | That I think gets us to the erm paper which I put down this morning , erm based upon erm primarily based upon that last erm graph , an and Graham 's best estimate of our likely out turn for this year , because they erm , in fact you 're , erm you 're reckoning that the erm , the number of complaints we receive by the thirty first of March next year , it 'll be four two fo four two , is your best seasonally adjusted guess . |
| 13 | He hands it over when I run down one flight of stairs and straight up another to arrive obediently at his side . |
| 14 | As I walked down one side of the hall , keeping close to the sides , and scurrying past the classroom doors , I felt my face grow hot . |
| 15 | I walked down this ledge , walked down the stage and there 's for security guards . |
| 16 | I have a notebook near me throughout a session and I jot down any questions I could not answer . |
| 17 | Curiously I proceeded down this route and my eyes came to rest on a small , battered , but not unclean little building . |
| 18 | With a wry smile she added , ‘ They 'll fink I 'm a Bolshevik when I go down that Council on Monday mornin' . ’ |
| 19 | I go down this side street where there ai n't so many big shops . |
| 20 | And I went down one day . |
| 21 | I went down one way up the other and |
| 22 | Cos th I remember the first time I went down that way over the bridge . |
| 23 | The first one was community and I know , erm that Catherine was n't very happy about the community side of things and I 've looked at the the pamphlet things and it needs updating a little bit so I took the fact that the Royal Quay 's were down at our doorstep and contacted Linda who was extremely helpful and she 's put together erm , a package of things along with me , I went down last week and the first week the ninth is going to be explaining to the classes what we 're going to be doing , each form teacher will be able to do that and the sixteen and the twenty third there are visits down to the Royal Quay 's Education Centre erm for which |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Could I come down one weekend and build such a pond for her ? |
| 26 | ‘ I 've lost three pounds and I 'm back to my weight of all last season , 13 stone , although I will be even sharper if I come down another couple of pounds . |
| 27 | What 's the difference between I jotted down this morning . |
| 28 | She says I wrote down two Keema naans or whatever , . |
| 29 | I agreed to take the girls there , and for a month I wrote down French words in a little pocket book , to help me on the journey . |
| 30 | I skulked down one side of the garden and went through the arch which led me to a walled garden in the middle of which there was a fountain playing . |