Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] down in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I flopped down in the seat but missed and landed on the floor . |
| 2 | Billy ( Nottingham ) and I came down in the afternoon to help . |
| 3 | I dropped down in the boat again , looking over my shoulder at the shore . |
| 4 | As I settled down in the straw-filled barn that I had left a few moments ago in search of food , I looked around at the now sleeping Frenchman , stretched out in the straw . |
| 5 | I lay down in the woods and went to sleep . |
| 6 | I knew I had done something when I went down in the tackle . ’ |
| 7 | I went down in the lift with Dr Jones in a blazing silence . |
| 8 | ‘ I went down in the lift . |
| 9 | As I went down in the lift I thought it pretty clever of Purvis to get the bike rider 's licence . |
| 10 | So and I went down in the pool this morning |
| 11 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 12 | ‘ I kipped down in the broom cupboard . |
| 13 | I wrote down in the book , some of the places . |
| 14 | Thanking him for giving me a lift , I sat down in the passenger seat and waited for Chapman to get moving . |
| 15 | A few times I sat down in the kitchen and almost told mum but changed my mind . |
| 16 | So I sat down in the warm , and ate the man 's breakfast . |
| 17 | I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness . |
| 18 | I sat down in the seat right by the door and , in between Seaforth and Litherland and Bootle New Strand , the doors suddenly opened and then closed while the train was moving . |
| 19 | As I crouched down in the trench I thought of the French family just a short distance away from us . |
| 20 | Then she flopped down in the chair opposite . |
| 21 | Alexandra would find her by the fire in the drawing-room in the afternoons , the Pekinese guarding her against invisible dangers , then she came down in the mornings and needed letters written , wools held . |
| 22 | Using the excuse of some paper work , she settled down in the office and after following Helen 's advice implicitly , she put the letter into an envelope , addressing it ‘ Personal ’ . |
| 23 | The warmth made her sleepy , and she slipped down in the bathtub , lying under the shower jet , taking the water full in the face . |
| 24 | She sat down in the chair at the head of the cot and very carefully slid her forefinger into the baby 's hand . |
| 25 | She sat down in the one comfortable chair ; it had come from their housekeeper 's room , and had found its way to Billy 's kitchen , like the strip of Turkey carpet with the hole in the middle . |
| 26 | Then she sat down in the middle of the court . |
| 27 | She sat down in the chair that Dieter held for her and craned her neck to peer at the book . |
| 28 | With something less than her usual grace she sat down in the stern , then tensed as Michele lowered his lean body into the space beside her , his arm stretched casually along the back of the ornate black wooden seat . |
| 29 | Nothing more was said as we rode down in the elevator . |
| 30 | I remember how cold it was when we came down in the winter . |