Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to go down the village , I want to go down the shops . |
| 2 | I shall return to that point later , but I want to put down a clear marker now . |
| 3 | I want to calm down a bit . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I start breaking down the shape of the building into smaller ones as well . |
| 8 | I start breaking down the shape of the building into smaller ones as well . |
| 9 | I 've broken down a lot more than I ever have over the last three months . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 've written down the messages . ’ |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | I had six days — time to make myself an evening gown ( evening gowns are n't funny ) that drops to pieces ( how ? ) after I 've fallen down a flight of stairs . |
| 14 | I 've calmed down a little . |
| 15 | Great that we 're making a few bob at last ; I 've bunged down a few more ideas for old Clash songs we could flog to various fee-paying customers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've jotted down a few details , numbers and so on . |
| 18 | Look what I 've , I 've stuffed down the hole ! |
| 19 | But I 've come down a bit now . |
| 20 | I 've put down the target figure of two hundred and fifty . |
| 21 | Erm so that 's why I 've put down the two . |
| 22 | And anything , then national testing I 've got down the twenty four er , week thirty two to week thirty seven . |
| 23 | However , I wish to put down a marker that , as the provisions of the Bill succeed in care in the community — for health visitors and community nurses — I hope that the possibility of its being extended to certain aspects of hospital work will be considered . |
| 24 | I believe I have calmed down a bit but there are still times when I will get booked . ’ |
| 25 | I think I have narrowed down the possible causes to be either hogweed or nettles and I am in the process of removing these . |
| 26 | I know I have to go down the college tonight . |
| 27 | That is , under no circumstances must I mention to anyone that I have turned down an invitation to return to Blighty . |
| 28 | ‘ I have cantered among the hyenas of the Serengeti as they brought down wildebeest ; I have danced the Wellington Boot Dance with the Zulu in the township hostels ; I have tiptoed through the Bibliothèque Nationale , listening to the gummy gumming of mundane scholars ; I have shelled prawns with slant-eyed androgynes in the polyglot souks of the uttermost East ; I have reached the nadir of a nonsensical number of psycho-sexual trances , both in the Amazonian hinterland and the plastic cultures of the Pacific rim ; I have subsumed myself to the circuitry of artificial cerebella in the silicone wadis ; I have crawled down the barrels of guns on all five continents , only to spring forth again — triumphant ; I have tittered in the stalls and tottered by the walls festooned with epicene opera-lovers ; I have sallied forth into the salons of the old world and the new ; I have hefted steins in the beerhalls and pinched flutes in the Shires ; I have raced laggardly protons around the cyclotron , revelling in the sempiternal sciamachy ; and — let us not forget — I have also hidden under couches whilst the moneyed pulers petted their kittenish neuroses , imagining themselves trusted , secluded . |
| 29 | I have set down the following experience as one that has haunted me for many years . |
| 30 | even the PC is quite an old one , and the tasks I have to accomplish down the line are fairly simple — electronic mail , basic word processing and the like . ’ |