Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you mind if I looked down the list ? |
| 2 | Well I slightly lost myself because I went down the M eleven |
| 3 | We parted company , he to wait for light on Bowfell , which did not look likely , while I headed down The Band for Hodge Close and an impatient climbing partner . |
| 4 | I said yes , but filling all my early evenings with this would prove rather inconvenient on those occasions when I wanted to go out , so we agreed a system whereby I would do some of the work first thing in the morning and the rest of it just after I closed down the switchboard . |
| 5 | It returned even after I stripped down the tank and started again . |
| 6 | When I wrote down the dream , I realised that I was already ‘ bored stiff with my proposed project , and should choose another topic . |
| 7 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |
| 8 | But I did discover where they had been coming in — through the stable and into the wall — and where they had resided when I pulled down the ceiling lathes in the dairy and a load of old nests and rat droppings fell on to my head . |
| 9 | ‘ He has suggested , though , that the two practices should merge , and seemed amazed when I turned down the idea . |
| 10 | A television play or four weeks away in repertory was OK , but I finally lost my agent when I turned down an interview for a job in June , ‘ because I 'll be picking the gooseberries ’ . |
| 11 | you know I remember ever so clearly , when I worked down the Totexas , Dentons |
| 12 | As I looked down a tube as empty as Outer Space , I pushed away from my board and dove for the bottom . |
| 13 | As I stepped down the steep treads I heard the too loud click of shoe leather on metal . |
| 14 | And this started a stampede amongst the rest of the herd and as I advanced down the field with them all in close pursuit I somehow managed to clear a four stranded barbed wire fence like an Olympic champion . |
| 15 | As I strolled down the next fairway and skirted a mass of heather which cut into the fairway on the angle of the dogleg , I wondered how my boss , Jack Mason , would fare in the tournament . |
| 16 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
| 17 | It was growing dark as I walked down the pier alone , his jacket draped over my shoulders , and I wondered if I should really look for Wilde at all . |
| 18 | Rickie was literally dancing in circles around me as I walked down the dock towards his sister , but then he paused in his frenetic progress to light one cigarette from the stump of another , and I wondered just what perverted fate decreed that such a boy should receive a legacy of six million dollars . |
| 19 | It was this image that accompanied me as I walked down the rue de Fleuve , stopping for a final coup d'oeil at the squat church crouching on its gravel ground . |
| 20 | If anything the sound seemed to become louder as I ran down the deck . |
| 21 | As I dodged down the yard I noticed the broken bottle lying in the drain . |
| 22 | ‘ As I padded down the passage to the kitchen , I felt that something was wrong . |
| 23 | As I sat down the man on my left gave me a brief nod . |