Example sentences of "i [vb past] down [prep] " 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 | I regret the fact that the hon. Member for Livingston saw fit not to answer the challenge that I laid down to him , just as he has not answered any of the challenges that I have laid down to him today , and that he has also seen fit to put the hon. Lady , on her first outing today , into a rather difficult position . |
| 4 | You see , we 'd got such confidence that she told me that when he died , she said , ‘ He died in his bed here ’ , that we were in , you see ; and she said , ‘ I then closed his eyes and I laid down with him till the morning so that nobody should be disturbed . ’ |
| 5 | I got down beside him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I got down to it and stopped it . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | He put up some token resistance : he 'd never had my advantages , it was time I got down to some hard work , and so on . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's also time I got down to thinking positively about this show . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I got down to eleven stone and then I stuck |
| 16 | I got down to ten stone . |
| 17 | But I got down to ten stone . |
| 18 | I got down to ten |
| 19 | I took the coach , and after thirty-six hours of travelling I got down at Thornfield village , and almost ran across the fields in my hurry to see the well-known house again , and its owner . |
| 20 | I got down on my knees behind him and pushed the ashtray under his raised leg . |
| 21 | So I got down on my knees in the car showroom and I said : ‘ I want you , Lord Jesus , to come into my life . ’ |
| 22 | I got down on my knees behind the animal with the feeling that I was on my own . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 25 | I kneeled down by Ben in the mud and found he was still unconscious . |
| 26 | ‘ I sank down on my knees and thrust my fingers into the dry warm sand . ’ |
| 27 | I sank down into my bed and cried . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Then in 1986 I moved down to London , played keyboards with a cabaret group and worked on my second book . ’ |
| 30 | I did n't stay at that school long before I moved down to erm the er Tins School on Chandler Street . |