Example sentences of "i [verb] [be] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | K. M. I was on the Dingle Lane gate — Shell Mex place — and I 'd been down there a few months . |
| 2 | Anyway after about a week , all men as been worked in the pits , By the way I 'd been down I 'd been to the . |
| 3 | I 'd been down the prom on my bike , and was riding up the posh part to our street . |
| 4 | and cos of like this have n't had , took them down , I 'd been down there three or |
| 5 | no , I forgot well see I forgotten and I 'd been down to Boots an all I , aunty Mary had them once , one time and said |
| 6 | I remember being down there watching Amityville II alone at midnight when there was a thunderous knock on the front door . |
| 7 | I had been down in my pantry working through the supplies sheets , when I had heard somewhere above my head the unmistakable sounds of motor cars pulling up in the courtyard . |
| 8 | On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village , on the south face of Kala Agar ridge , that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater , and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road , when , approaching a pile of rocks , I suddenly felt there was danger ahead . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been down under the sea , you know ! |
| 10 | An attitude of fatalism may be seen in typical phrases from traditional low-income black American subculture such as ‘ I 've been down so long that down do n't bother me ’ , ‘ I was born under a bad sign ’ and ‘ It 's an uphill climb to the bottom ’ . |
| 11 | that I 've been down to see it . |
| 12 | but I 've been down there ? |
| 13 | And I 've been down here two year . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been down here half the night , waiting for someone like you , ’ the stranger said . |
| 15 | In all the times I 've been down here , I have never heard that sound before . |
| 16 | ‘ This is the first time I 've been down here since God knows when . |
| 17 | When I 've been down there trying to get casual work , you know in Leith docks ? |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been down there . |
| 19 | Er the thing is that the people in the northeast yes er there is a lot more work done up there by the Society but you know since I 've been down in Horsham I have found that the northeast is not alone . |
| 20 | This morning they 're different again down there cos I 've been down there and I 've looked at the situation erm and I 've had a word with the lads there and I will try and alter it a little bit more . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , it 's a pot I 've been down many times — not the easiest ; apart from a fifty-foot pitch we 'll have to haul him up , there 's a long sump we 'll have to bring the injured man back through which could be tricky if he 's unconscious or uncooperative . |
| 22 | So when she went out I said Ann 's probably back now and er she said well if I do n't see her tell her I 've been down |
| 23 | I said that 's fuck all right I 've been down the canteen . |
| 24 | I 've been down here for bloody nine years I 've missed it a bit |
| 25 | I ca do n't think I 've been down here before have I ? |
| 26 | Oh , I 've been down here about twenty years though so it 's faded a bit |
| 27 | I 've no down London every time I 've been down there , and have n't seen any trouble . |
| 28 | My accent 's certainly changed since I 've been down here . |
| 29 | No I 'm not , I do n't think I am gon na come down cos I 've been down so long anyway |
| 30 | I 've been down there . |