Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] down [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as I was about ashore , I bent down to pick up the ball , getting a wet sleeve in the process . |
| 2 | I bent down to look more closely . |
| 3 | In a voice that sounded husky and uncertain , Maurice said : ‘ I came down to look around . ’ |
| 4 | It 's taken me about a year to realize that the things I put down do n't actually disappear of their own accord . |
| 5 | I 'd phoned my father in the evening , and he did n't sound too well , so I drove down to see how he was . ’ |
| 6 | I went down to find out what had gone wrong . |
| 7 | ‘ I sat down to design yet another collection and felt sick . |
| 8 | As I sat down to write up my diary a brick arrived through my sitting room window . |
| 9 | She stooped down to drink where a stone had been set for a firm landing beside a foot-wide pool . |
| 10 | Have you written down did n't you write it in the in the margin ? |
| 11 | Presently she glanced down to see how much farther she had to go — and then nearly fell the rest of the way . |
| 12 | After that she settled down to rest properly . |
| 13 | Erm did you once you settled down working there , did you like it ? |
| 14 | She reached down to pick up the sweater she had thrown on to her own oilskins . |
| 15 | She fell down did n't she ? |
| 16 | She leaned down to check closely upon the steady rise and fall of his chest , and the slight , rhythmic warmth of the air expelled from his lungs . |
| 17 | and you slid down twisting on to the grass . |
| 18 | She sat down to rage silently but in spite of every effort to work herself up rage would not come and honesty forced her to face facts . |
| 19 | It will be best if you sat down do n't you think mummy ? |
| 20 | No we saw we saw the people in the park when we walked down did n't we ? |
| 21 | eventually I went up and I tried to get him to go down to sleep again , and he was shutting his eyes and on his dummy , but he was |
| 22 | How do they feel , those Acas teams , as they sit down to sort out yet another union/management dispute ? |
| 23 | Persuading him to come down proved very difficult , until someone had the idea of placing at the foot of his tree an enormous parrot-cage . |
| 24 | Just cos they came down does n't make the bit of |
| 25 | These days many people know that they should bend their knees when they bend down to pick up an object , but this is only half the story . |
| 26 | No , no , they broke down did n't they ? |
| 27 | france crashing out at almost exactly 90 minutes with a great goal from kostadinov ( FC Porto , Portugal ) — that was fucking amazing when you think of that they went down to israel also at home in almost the same manner ( the other goals in this match was also a joy to watch — canto who said he never play in paris again was seen playing and scoring at least on my telly ) |
| 28 | A sharp blow hit her between the shoulder blades and she wheeled round to see the woman who had spat at her leaning down to pick up another stone . |
| 29 | Now it 's all hands to the deck for the close friends as they knuckle down to bring back the sparkle that has been missing down at Hamilton Park for the past few seasons . |
| 30 | He went back to tending his cows , and , looking at me as he bent down to pick up his bucket , he said , ‘ I am Monsieur Saulnier . |