Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she first stood in for Terry Wogan she insisted , ‘ I love standing in for Wogan but I 'm honestly not looking for The Sue Lawley Show with my name in lights and me swooping down a staircase . ’ |
| 2 | The one you 're walking out with , the one Gazzer and me saw down the prom . ’ |
| 3 | What we are saying there are other emergencies and I get down to the word loneliness now is there any reason why senior citizens should n't have the facility whereby they can make telephone calls if those , they so desire , to members of the family who in many instances they have n't seen for long periods of time ? |
| 4 | High on a mountain we paused and I looked down on Lough Nafooey , a lake lying far below us . |
| 5 | The second I walked off the set , a wave of pain hit me and I looked down at my grazed shins and one swollen knee . |
| 6 | But Robin-Anne did not react , and I looked down to see that she was not watching for the new day , but was crying . |
| 7 | But then they twitched again and I looked down to see , just above the sill , the curls and bright blue eyes of a snub-nosed child . |
| 8 | And you know this time when I went on a plane and I looked down , I was n't saying it to Ben |
| 9 | Stan makes a cup of coffee and I go down and fetch it . ’ |
| 10 | He actually suggested he and I go down there together to look it over . |
| 11 | A love song on the crackly Holiday Inn radio which the maid always switches on as her final flourish after she 's done the room ( Hugo and I go down to the pool and swim and use the sauna while we wait for her to finish ) or a pop song on the telly as Hugo and I eat our continental breakfast ( orange juice , coffee , a croissant and a Danish each ) , too languid even to stretch out for the remote control and switch it off — will make tears come to my eyes : move me with the desire to say , You do love me , do n't you ! |
| 12 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
| 13 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 14 | It was n't the only operation that went into the shredder at that time — you could figure that for yourself So Arnie went to London and closed it off wiped our prints off everything and I shut down the Langley end . |
| 15 | We flew above the skeletal radio mast and I stared down at the row of huge houses . |
| 16 | It was difficult to talk with the engine going , and I stared down through fifty or sixty feet of water to patches of pale rock starred black with sea-urchins . |
| 17 | K. R. I saw a fellow having an epileptic fit and I got down to hold him while he kicked out . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 20 | Aye er the when I was I got better and I got down to and there was a fella come to look and see me . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And I wrote down , that they were on a doing Anthems of the Nations . |
| 23 | The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor . |
| 24 | ‘ There was no sign to say the drain was uncovered and I fell down it , cutting my leg and ankle and ruining my shoes , socks and slacks , ’ he writes . |
| 25 | and I went into the kitchen and I fell down , first time in my life , I 've never passed out , not |
| 26 | And I play on the mountains and I slide down the slag heap . ’ |
| 27 | I 've seen this fella on the back of the bus with his bird and that and I walked down and was sitting by them and he was tooting gear , y'know , behind the back seat like that and he threw a load of gear over to me and said : ‘ Here , d' you want some of this ? ’ , y'know , monging , off his head , like . |
| 28 | I walk out to the bus , I get on the bus at the end of Care Street , I walk right along Care Street , right up Dawsons Street , brisk walk and then I 'm walking around the garage , I do n't do that much walking now , the bloody car , but I take a walk at lunchtime and I walk down to the bar , walking , if you walk , that would be total couple of miles a day |
| 29 | There 's still a couple of beat up chairs there and I sit down in one of them . |
| 30 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |