Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] i [vb infin] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was n't much else she could do without attracting attention , but I definitely expected a bit of the old argy-bargy before she let me get down to business . |
| 2 | I would like you to let , I would like you to let me go down to the fair . |
| 3 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 4 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 5 | It made me sit down with my wife and remember all kinds of things . ’ ’ |
| 6 | It made me sit down and think , ‘ I do n't give a damn what they 're saying . |
| 7 | He watched me pull down the Jolly Roger and throw it overboard , then he said , ‘ I expect you 'll want to go ashore now . |
| 8 | I do n't think it helps him , it helps me calm down and go to sleep . |