Example sentences of "i have [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day I came here I 'd gone down to Age Concern — I used to go there for meetings and bingo — and I told them I was n't stopping because I 'd no money . |
| 2 | He said you 'd have no idea where to start and , in any event , he had bribed two shepherds to say I 'd gone down to Foxton Mire . |
| 3 | Pat : He was six months old and I 'd gone down for his second immunisation and I mean the doctor I went to see was a family doctor — I 've known him since I was a baby — and he just , he was looking at him and he just said , ‘ Is your husband Chinese ? ’ |
| 4 | I 'd 've been quicker if I 'd gone down into Brentwood , picked up the M twenty five and gone on the A one M |
| 5 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 6 | The rocks of the Bomb Circle usually get me thinking and this time was no exception , especially considering the way I 'd lain down inside them like some Christ or something , opened to the sky , dreaming of death . |
| 7 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 8 | But , do I have to come down to yours … to be with you . ’ |
| 9 | They said I had to lie down for two hours because I was going to be groggy , but I thought Fred would be worried . |
| 10 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
| 11 | The parade I had to lead down from the station to the beat was much longer on nights . |
| 12 | I had travelled down to Punta Arenas , which the biblical authority of the South American Handbook said was the best jumping-off point . |
| 13 | Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone . |
| 14 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 15 | Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him . |
| 16 | Well I had to come down on his side . |
| 17 | I had to cut down on dairy products and grains . |
| 18 | ‘ Means I had to get down on me hands and knees with the bill-hook , round the back like . |
| 19 | I had to go and get Doug , I had to run down to school |
| 20 | And then I had to run down to Mrs 's when Dawn stayed with mummy while the ambulance come to tell Mrs and Mrs says do n't worry Jean , I 'll sign you in the day just go ahead and put your mum in the ambulance . |
| 21 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 22 | Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her . |
| 23 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 24 | Just before getting in the trucks , I had wandered down to the rooms where the crippled legionnaires lived . |
| 25 | They gave me a drug which I had to swill down in water . |
| 26 | I 've gone down to one egg in me freezer |
| 27 | Now for the that out and I 'll see what I 've written down for this Oh yeah er see Sue lost it erm well it 's a canine meaning , you know , the rose erm the dog rose . |
| 28 | Like I said , I 've slowed down in the past for people like that and they have n't you know I do n't think that |
| 29 | My social life , you can say I 've cut down on that . |
| 30 | I 've cut down on all the exercise I felt necessary to do and always have fourth helpings but nothing can bring back my third chin , I do n't know what to do , ’ said the man . |