Example sentences of "i was [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three weeks ago I was invited down to a meeting of water workers . |
| 2 | It was agreed the next day that I was run down . |
| 3 | Instead I was looking down the quay to where a pathetically thin girl was walking beside a smartly dressed woman . |
| 4 | And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it . |
| 5 | I felt I was looking down into my own grave . |
| 6 | It was late and I was looking down at Chung Kuo , wondering what lay ahead . |
| 7 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
| 8 | I was looking down at her , brown knees drawn up to her chin and the open V of her shirt showing the round of her breasts , even the pinking of the nipple circles . |
| 9 | Structural maintenance er yes erm yes down the bottom I was looking down erm and and we are proposing a significantly lower er cut on both the the officers and proposal there that the other er er that the other er er that the other parties . |
| 10 | ‘ It came as a shock , because I was bent down tying my shoelaces . ’ |
| 11 | guess what I was watching down there , ah P O R K Y S |
| 12 | I was turned down by all the universities on my UCCA application form , because I had received a bad report from my headmaster at Downside School who said I took drugs , which was true , but was also an admission made to him in confidence . |
| 13 | So I was turned down in my own county town in favour of a stranger … |
| 14 | I was dragged down the hard , concrete steps on to the pavement . |
| 15 | Sometimes I was dragged down from our bed-sitter under the tiles . |
| 16 | There I was strolling down the scrubby end of the Kings Road , mooching along . |
| 17 | Dad said I should wait until it stopped snowing so hard , so I watched from the window , and before very long it did ease and I was sent down the cellar for the fuel . |
| 18 | I was using regular for about two years after that until I was sent down . |
| 19 | It 's obvious from the record that I was weighted down by an incredible burden I did n't know was mine or not. , |
| 20 | Were it not for the narrow strip of tar , I would have been stuck hopelessly — several times I was bogged down when the wind blew me off the road . |
| 21 | Suddenly I was struck down by an illness . |
| 22 | I was surging down Sunset Boulevard : purely on impulse I hung a left near Scheldt 's , where I 've seen these sweet little black chicks parading in tiny pastel running-shorts … |
| 23 | On that occasion , I was moving down a long , straight road with wide meadows on either side of me . |
| 24 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 25 | Do n't you remember I stopped no you wo n't remember but I stopped because I was writing down exactly what we were doing |
| 26 | Where 's the wee white book Jean I was writing down in ? |
| 27 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 28 | I was kneeling down and you had just fallen on the floor . |
| 29 | Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was |
| 30 | I was marched down to A block [ punishment ] . |