Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know my lines and I 'm dragging down the rest of the cast . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm looking down the garden that 's lovely ! |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm goin' down the Town ‘ All an' 'ave a word wiv that medical bloke . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm nipping down the market , ’ he informed wife number eight |
| 5 | I mean , he 's all , I mean he walked in the door , he was , I 'm coming down the garden , and erm , he walked down the garden and he 'd seen me , and he started really smiling . |
| 6 | According to Alan , they would always say ‘ I 'm going down the Quimbourne tonight ’ ( the name of the community centre ) , as if visiting a pub or club , and not ‘ I 'm going to the Young Conservatives . ’ |
| 7 | Right I 'm going down the chippie |
| 8 | Oh cos I 'm going down the shop |
| 9 | I 've planned me route , I 'm going down the M six , I need to come off at the spaghetti junction whatever it is , and I 'm going to check me clock and I 'm going allow plenty of time to get there . |
| 10 | One evening in mid-April , Dr Jaffery and I were walking down the Chandni Chowk heading towards the doctor 's rooms in the Ghazi-ud-Din Medresse . |
| 11 | Instead I was looking down the quay to where a pathetically thin girl was walking beside a smartly dressed woman . |
| 12 | And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it . |
| 13 | I was dragged down the hard , concrete steps on to the pavement . |
| 14 | There I was strolling down the scrubby end of the Kings Road , mooching along . |
| 15 | Dad said I should wait until it stopped snowing so hard , so I watched from the window , and before very long it did ease and I was sent down the cellar for the fuel . |
| 16 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 17 | Take-off time arrived and the oil temperatures were still somewhat below the criteria , but I opened the throttles and very shortly the tail was up and I was heading down the short runway into a brisk headwind , pointing straight for the little pub outside the camp that had become a second home for us . |
| 18 | Next morning I was driving down the single village street when I saw Mrs Bailes coming out of the shop . |
| 19 | A sneaky scramble or climb on Laddow Rocks and you are heading down the eroded Pennine Way track to Crowden and the Longdendale Reservoirs , with the sombre northern slopes of Bleaklow frowning over them . |
| 20 | You know I would n't cos you 're going down the shops . |
| 21 | So you 're going down the south coast , it 's lovely Guildford 's alright , where they , they 're fucking stuck up bitches ! |
| 22 | He ca n't if you put in , if he thinks everything 's rosy here , he ca n't help you , but in fact you 're going down the swanee , you 're only fooling yourselves . |
| 23 | ‘ If this is a survey , should n't you be writing down the answers ? ’ |
| 24 | If you were to come down the Cowley Road — I invite you to come down and and come and see the situation , because , you know , if I said okay anyone can smoke or drink in the church or churchyard in Saint Mary and John , the building would be full , not full literally , but we 'd have people all day in there smoking and drinking and there would be nowhere quiet for people to pray . |
| 25 | she said it was very lonely at night when you were walking down the corridors . |
| 26 | You were coming down the Pheasant pub then were you ? |
| 27 | so I wonder if she 's going down the , well she might be down for the service now |
| 28 | She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot . |
| 29 | Well I think , she said she was going down the shops , so I said ah can you just wait just a sec , I 'll go and get my wallet and I 'll be down she said not to worry she 'd got money anyway whe when I got there she bumped to Maggi and then you 'd gone and then |
| 30 | She was still shivering and her head felt muzzy , but now she was lying down the boat did n't seem to be doing quite so much heaving and rolling . |