Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The search for me has died down . |
| 2 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 3 | When I got sent down the judge said , ‘ You should be out for the baby 's birth ’ , but I was n't . |
| 4 | When I got sent down , all through my sentence , the social worker kept coming to see us . |
| 5 | ‘ I got broke down , ’ he whispered apologetically as he slipped in beside Moran , putting his oily hand on the head of one of the girls . |
| 6 | ‘ The race was really lost at the start when I got bogged down and Andretti went into the back of me . |
| 7 | The social worker said I should get out of the house , so I got enticed down to Age Concern and passed the afternoon there . |
| 8 | I was upset , but when I 'd calmed down , I wondered if Roby was right . |
| 9 | ‘ What would you have done if I 'd gone down ? ’ he asked when we were back on level ground . |
| 10 | 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Well if I 'd known I 'd gone down there . |
| 15 | and I 'd written down |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After I 'd quietened down they left me alone . |
| 21 | and I do n't know whether she took me down to see him to see if I 'd backed down |
| 22 | ‘ After I 'd cooled down I knew I was being irrational . ’ |
| 23 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 24 | On the back of the packet was the phone number of Prior , Keen , Baldwin 's motorbike messenger service which I 'd jotted down while snooping in their postroom on Friday afternoon . |
| 25 | about ten past one , well I had indigestion all night and I could feel it , and we 'd had our tea and I thought oh I do n't know , but I went to bed feeling alright and suddenly I woke up I thought oh my god I 'm gon na be sick , I come running down stairs , but you know I was , I was sick but I know I had n't finished and I 'd sat down and I was sick three times . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , he is famous for it and I believe sent down from Oxford for it . |
| 27 | I have upon my shoulders so many cares as a landlady that I feel bowed down whereas , and I do not think my memory faults me , I was freer as a maid . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ? |