Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] down [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , and I , and I wiped down one side |
| 2 | As I walked down one side of the hall , keeping close to the sides , and scurrying past the classroom doors , I felt my face grow hot . |
| 3 | I walked down this ledge , walked down the stage and there 's for security guards . |
| 4 | Curiously I proceeded down this route and my eyes came to rest on a small , battered , but not unclean little building . |
| 5 | And I went down one day . |
| 6 | I went down one way up the other and |
| 7 | Cos th I remember the first time I went down that way over the bridge . |
| 8 | The first one was community and I know , erm that Catherine was n't very happy about the community side of things and I 've looked at the the pamphlet things and it needs updating a little bit so I took the fact that the Royal Quay 's were down at our doorstep and contacted Linda who was extremely helpful and she 's put together erm , a package of things along with me , I went down last week and the first week the ninth is going to be explaining to the classes what we 're going to be doing , each form teacher will be able to do that and the sixteen and the twenty third there are visits down to the Royal Quay 's Education Centre erm for which |
| 9 | What 's the difference between I jotted down this morning . |
| 10 | I skulked down one side of the garden and went through the arch which led me to a walled garden in the middle of which there was a fountain playing . |
| 11 | The switch worked : on the faces of both of them came down that twilight of solemnity , a most vulnerable condition , he had found , if rightly played upon . |
| 12 | She gulped down some orange juice hastily . |
| 13 | With some difficulty she swallowed down further argument , but was honest as she stated simply , ‘ It was my fault , not his . |
| 14 | ‘ You went down each time ? |
| 15 | She sat down one afternoon with the idea of coiling gold and silver thread into starbursts on milk-bottle tops . |
| 16 | I can tell him that , if we had been involved in the process during the years in which this Government were involved , proper priority would have been given to the very stipulations that we laid down some time ago about convergence , the accountability of institutions and the need for a change in regional and structural funding — as well as several other considerations , some of which are now contained in article 2 of the treaty . |
| 17 | ‘ When we walked down that ward I ca n't tell you how it felt , ’ said Mrs Rogers . |
| 18 | Remember we went down that slate mine ? |
| 19 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 20 | We went down this park cos we wanted |
| 21 | My Dad — I could n't have believed it ! — we went down last weekend and he was sitting there , polishing the buttons on his old uniform and calling me a traitor ! ’ |
| 22 | Now the Col des Cavales is an important pass to the Pave hut beside its deep blue , ice-infested lake , but it 's loose and nasty in the late afternoon : rusty cables hang from broken bolts over a parody of a path , so without axes we kicked down steep slush and bucket-stepped , slippery ice . |
| 23 | And he said good , and here 's ours , and we passed them along the table , and we wrote down two point six , I said excuse me , could I just have that back , there 's a slight typing error , excuse me , sorry twenty-two per cent . |
| 24 | Counselling ended with our third session , at which we wrote down this couple 's agreed terms for marriage . |
| 25 | well you remember er when we sat down this evening I said there was a couple of ways that you could help me , one of these ways was that er you might be able to introduce me to one or two of your friends and I can run through the same ideas with them . |
| 26 | I saw her tipped down that cliff . " |
| 27 | We do n't start from scratch , a plug for the T & G , they started down this track with their own link-up campaign and in the G M B we 've pushed forward the frontiers of trade unionism into professional small businesses , legal offices and of course other commercial services . |
| 28 | They floated down dismal lift shafts ; they mounted crazily angled corridors where friezes showed forgotten battles between impossible ships shaped like butterflies with wings of spectral energy . |
| 29 | As they sat down one BOR retaliated by asking for a special item from the Baptist villagers . |
| 30 | When he got his breath back he told Sutton it was imperative they sat down that night , the next night , the night after — however long it would take to thrash out a plan for the paper . |