Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [vb infin] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm counting the calories — I must slim down a bit . ’ |
| 2 | I w I walked all through that Nigerian mob and I thought oh we I 'll walk down the ticket desk , see if this is all shut |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll batten down the hatches , ’ I told her . |
| 4 | He 's so thick , you know he 'll say right I 'll go down the hold , I 'll do the humping , what they call humping , he 'll do that , loading these slings or bags , rather than him standing there and say well ten bags in that sling , put ten down , he could n't do that , so he 'd rather go down the hold that 's happened . |
| 5 | Oh go on , yeah but Alex you were n't going , I I 'll go down the field and look . |
| 6 | ‘ If you refuse to let me in , then I 'll break down the door ! ’ |
| 7 | Erm , I 'll take down the other , the main agenda cos we 've we 've sort of set up a special group for the . |
| 8 | So i i if you can er give me the background if I ask you to sort of give me a bit of background for the case , I 'll write it up here , and I 'll write down the solutions and see what , see what you 've done . |
| 9 | I 'll turn down the heat when I get back . " |
| 10 | As long as mum is alive and as long as I 'm able to look after her , there 's no way I could hold down a job . |
| 11 | I managed to wriggle my hands out of the tape so I could pull down the gag , poke my head out of the sack and breathe more freely . |
| 12 | I could n't wait to finish at the studio that day so I could slip down the record shop to pick up a copy , and several months later I still have n't stopped playing it . |
| 13 | I leaned further over until I could see down the line of houses . |
| 14 | Then I 'd go down the town buy us all clothes then , you and I would go out for a private dinner Jean . |
| 15 | Erm well I 'd put down the U N |
| 16 | We were on the top flat , so I could n't get out to play ; my Ma was feared I 'd fall down the stone stairs and break my neck . |
| 17 | I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life . |
| 18 | I would turn down an Oscar to see my boy at a baseball game or my girl at a song recital . |
| 19 | After night has fallen , I will climb down the slopes to walk about unseen round the hotel and retrieve what the People have discarded . |
| 20 | And to be more explicit and to show you how tall I stand by the giant , I will put down a simile of human life as far as I now perceive it ; that is , to the point to which I say we both have arrived at . |
| 21 | Mark says that if it 's a fuel leak I can chuck down a lighted match , but I can tell he 's only joking . |
| 22 | I can put down a school teacher does that help ? |
| 23 | If it 's Joe 's I 'm getting a piece of paper so I can write down the homework . |
| 24 | ‘ While you 're gone I 'll make some calls and see if I can track down a crystal , ’ she said firmly . |
| 25 | ‘ While you 're gone I 'll make some calls and see if I can track down a crystal , ’ she said firmly . |