Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got sent down the judge said , ‘ You should be out for the baby 's birth ’ , but I was n't . |
| 2 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 3 | I do n't want to go down the village , I want to go down the shops . |
| 4 | I suppose you think I mean I want to walk down the aisle in white with my friends watching , but that 's not it , that 's not what this feeling is to do with . |
| 5 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 6 | My mother could n't believe I 'd turned down the highest single accolade known to show business aside from This Is Your Life ( which I 've also managed to avoid by dint of a pact with the reclusive man with whom I share my digs ) . |
| 7 | But I did n't get married four times because I like trolling down the aisle , I got married four times because I like the idea of being married and I like sharing my life with a man . |
| 8 | now if I was to go there and back that 's eighty pence , I mean I could get , for , for that e extra eighty pence I could get a few things in there that are dearer but I mean I like going down the town anyway and just wander and go back but I do get a few more bits in there now than I did . |
| 9 | Will I have to strip down the tank and start again ? |
| 10 | I managed to get down the last two words of the preceding paragraph before my stomach over-boiled into my mouth . |
| 11 | I start breaking down the shape of the building into smaller ones as well . |
| 12 | I start breaking down the shape of the building into smaller ones as well . |
| 13 | I had to hold down the wheelbarrow by sitting on it while taking off my hat , changing into my jeans , and putting on goggles and a smog-mask . |
| 14 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 16 | Well , there was nothing for it , I had to lay down the law in no uncertain terms . |
| 17 | he and he were like this in the water I had to go down the bank I grabbed hold of him in the middle of his back , just turfed him out . |
| 18 | I had to force down the wave of nausea . |
| 19 | As usual , once I had put down the wheelbarrow , I had stiffened up and been able to think only of aches and pains . |
| 20 | Fenella was easily bribed with the promise of an ice-cream on the way home and Lisabeth kept her company by devouring a couple of choc ices , which meant I had to wash down the upholstery of Armstrong 's back seat that evening . |
| 21 | Erm I 've broken down the costing into each of the sizes we will produce , the thirty three millilitres , the one litre and the two litre sizes . |
| 22 | I 've written down the messages . ’ |
| 23 | yeah , I find that , that I 've done it and I 've written down the answer and then I ca n't think which number does it go to , and by the time I 've got to number one they 're on about six , so I might as well , I 'm lost it completely , so I ca n't do that either and my project work , course work , goes towards certain percent of my marks and I ca n't think for the life of me why |
| 24 | Now just going on products , off the compost plant for the last six months , I 've gone through , I 've taken I 've noted down the number of samples taken , each month by month . |
| 25 | Look what I 've , I 've stuffed down the hole ! |
| 26 | I 've put down the target figure of two hundred and fifty . |
| 27 | Erm so that 's why I 've put down the two . |
| 28 | And anything , then national testing I 've got down the twenty four er , week thirty two to week thirty seven . |
| 29 | I think I have narrowed down the possible causes to be either hogweed or nettles and I am in the process of removing these . |
| 30 | I know I have to go down the college tonight . |