Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got sent down the judge said , ‘ You should be out for the baby 's birth ’ , but I was n't . |
| 2 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 3 | I do n't want to go down the village , I want to go down the shops . |
| 4 | I shall return to that point later , but I want to put down a clear marker now . |
| 5 | I want to calm down a bit . ’ |
| 6 | I suppose you think I mean I want to walk down the aisle in white with my friends watching , but that 's not it , that 's not what this feeling is to do with . |
| 7 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 8 | My mother could n't believe I 'd turned down the highest single accolade known to show business aside from This Is Your Life ( which I 've also managed to avoid by dint of a pact with the reclusive man with whom I share my digs ) . |
| 9 | But I did n't get married four times because I like trolling down the aisle , I got married four times because I like the idea of being married and I like sharing my life with a man . |
| 10 | now if I was to go there and back that 's eighty pence , I mean I could get , for , for that e extra eighty pence I could get a few things in there that are dearer but I mean I like going down the town anyway and just wander and go back but I do get a few more bits in there now than I did . |
| 11 | Will I have to strip down the tank and start again ? |
| 12 | I managed to get down the last two words of the preceding paragraph before my stomach over-boiled into my mouth . |
| 13 | I start breaking down the shape of the building into smaller ones as well . |
| 14 | I start breaking down the shape of the building into smaller ones as well . |
| 15 | I did hold down a responsible job in my last post , ’ she said . |
| 16 | I had to hold down the wheelbarrow by sitting on it while taking off my hat , changing into my jeans , and putting on goggles and a smog-mask . |
| 17 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 19 | It was a bad moment and I had to put down a swift impulse to rush to the side and throw myself over . |
| 20 | Well , there was nothing for it , I had to lay down the law in no uncertain terms . |
| 21 | Four other girls , that 's right and of course there were housemaids there to do the work and er yes housemaids and er and er you know and in the , in the kitchen , you see , there was the chef and er a cook , the kitchen maid and er a young man , a boy , well just left school to scrub the tables down and do the floors and that sort of thing and er and whi and er while I , of course I had to go down every day to type , to see what the chef said , what was on the menu and type it , type out the menus , you see , that was one of my jobs and er and if let me think , yes there was quite a number of staff , that 's just in the kitchen |
| 22 | he and he were like this in the water I had to go down the bank I grabbed hold of him in the middle of his back , just turfed him out . |
| 23 | I had to force down the wave of nausea . |
| 24 | But every time I wanted a piece of wood , I had to cut down a tree . |
| 25 | Earlier , I had put down a keyboard part to a click track and so Gregg , Matt ( the Bissonette brothers , Dave Lee Roth 's erstwhile rhythm section — Ed ) and myself went and did Cryin ' . |
| 26 | As usual , once I had put down the wheelbarrow , I had stiffened up and been able to think only of aches and pains . |
| 27 | Fenella was easily bribed with the promise of an ice-cream on the way home and Lisabeth kept her company by devouring a couple of choc ices , which meant I had to wash down the upholstery of Armstrong 's back seat that evening . |
| 28 | I 've broken down a lot more than I ever have over the last three months . |
| 29 | Erm I 've broken down the costing into each of the sizes we will produce , the thirty three millilitres , the one litre and the two litre sizes . |
| 30 | I 've written down the messages . ’ |