Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] down [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said slowly , ‘ I came down here to talk to you about last night . ’ |
| 2 | I came down here to try and find him . |
| 3 | ‘ To come straight to the point , I drove down here to make a suggestion . |
| 4 | Five or ten minutes by there , and getting introduced to all the old colliers that were in the same manhole , that we called it : I started down then to follow my father ; and I had to follow him like a little dog , all the way . |
| 5 | A competent woman officer told me first , then I went down alone to see Barbara . |
| 6 | Yes , she said but er when I went down there to check after you 'd gone , she said erm yours was erm the driest of them sort of thing . |
| 7 | After a while I calmed down enough to rest myself . |
| 8 | Fabia had been in her room for a good half-hour before she cooled down sufficiently to realise that maybe her reaction to Lubor 's hauling her into his arms had been a little — fierce — perhaps . |
| 9 | Then she came down here to tell my mum . |
| 10 | She glanced down suddenly to see Kirsty looking up at her . |
| 11 | Lady Eleanor took me into her confidence and told me how every day , late in the evening , she went down there to see if another letter had been left . ’ |
| 12 | Eventually she simmered down sufficiently to complete a few small office jobs , and she had just checked the answering machine when the sound of voices floated through the open front entrance . |
| 13 | Wild and feverish with excitement , she sat down immediately to write to Boldwood , to inform him that she could not marry him . |
| 14 | So one word we came down here to talk about , and hey , here 's a whole lot things . |
| 15 | Before we came down here to clean the caravan . |
| 16 | Launched from ML 102 , the two raiders had a mile or so to paddle on a compass course through choppy water into the harbour where , as the canoe surged on the swell alongside a large ship , they reached down underwater to fix their eight limpet mines . |
| 17 | The dead are from the great battle long ago ; the marsh-lights are exhalations from rotting corpses ; he dug down once to eat them , though he found them beyond reach . |
| 18 | Its small herd included two sturdy calves , and he ducked down excitedly to report to his father what he had seen . |
| 19 | When he sat down again to finish his kedgeree Aunt Tossie gave him quite a funny look , and burst out laughing . |
| 20 | His appearance caused a rapid scattering of employees who had outstayed their coffee break , and he sat down contentedly to munch a doughnut with his coffee . |