Example sentences of "i [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I gazed down at the reclining form .
2 In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre .
3 When we 're in the flat she says she 'll make some coffee , and I sit down on a chair with my carrier by my side .
4 Well you see I sit down on a I sit down on a fairly regular basis with now and try to give her direction and er point out , and I do make the point , about every time and , right ?
5 Well you see I sit down on a I sit down on a fairly regular basis with now and try to give her direction and er point out , and I do make the point , about every time and , right ?
6 I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round .
7 I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky .
8 I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her .
9 Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait .
10 There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree .
11 I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather .
12 About 9.30 I sit down with a cup of coffee to read the paper .
13 For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there .
14 I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks
15 I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal .
16 I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone .
17 Doug Wimbish started playing harmonics on that funny Guild bass ( the rubber-stringed Ashbory model — Ed ) and I got down to a really quiet moment , and suddenly Phil just surprised the hell out of us with this keyboard patch !
18 When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking .
19 Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL .
20 Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead .
21 I suppose the reason I got down to an effort to be objective is that I did n't like the interpretations of my other things — so here I am with an array of alligator pears — about ten of them — calla lilies — four or six — leaves — summer green ones — ranging through yellow to the dark sombre blackish purplish red — eight or ten — horrid yellow sunflowers — two new red cannas — some white birches with yellow leaves — only two that I have no name for and I do n't know where they come from .
22 And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were .
23 I wept a little as I climbed the creaky stairs , and when I got into the attic I knelt down beside the bed , put my hands together and prayed .
24 I wandered down to the kitchens where Wolsey 's chefs were busy creating subtleties , strange confectionery creations : towers and castles of sugar ready to launch their assault on valiant teeth .
25 I flopped down onto a bean bag and took a sip of my tea .
26 I flopped down in the seat but missed and landed on the floor .
27 I bend down to the coke .
28 A day or so later , I came down with a very nasty bout of influenza .
29 I came down for the fire , for it was cold in my room .
30 ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said .
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