Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 3 | They think it was the stress , I mean moving down to Cornwall ! |
| 4 | When you 're , until you 're in danger of breaking down , I mean breaking down would be when you 'd approach the hoop like that and you realize you ca n't run it . |
| 5 | I mean goes down , he 's goes Ahhh ! |
| 6 | I mean to lay down my life that men like you can live in freedom to fight for what is right in the world . ’ |
| 7 | Well that 's what I that 's what I mean go down down Shallard 's Road here down |
| 8 | But when it rained , going down I mean going down it rained so much I thought we 'd never , never even going to get there . |
| 9 | And I intend to go down to London . |
| 10 | I intend cutting down on both . |
| 11 | Jake got up this morning I goes going down then ? |
| 12 | When I got sent down the judge said , ‘ You should be out for the baby 's birth ’ , but I was n't . |
| 13 | When I got sent down , all through my sentence , the social worker kept coming to see us . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | I got to sit down after that , and I find a wooden crate . |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't go on , I got to sit down , ’ she gasped , collapsing heavily on the grass . |
| 17 | ‘ The race was really lost at the start when I got bogged down and Andretti went into the back of me . |
| 18 | ’ Y'got interfield problems , I got t'shut down , check through . |
| 19 | The social worker said I should get out of the house , so I got enticed down to Age Concern and passed the afternoon there . |
| 20 | I hate coming down town . |
| 21 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 22 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 23 | On the Monday I tried to settle down to a meeting at Alexander Fleming House ( the DHSS 's headquarters at the Elephant and Castle ) with Tony Newton who had joined the department as Parliamentary Secretary for Social Security . |
| 24 | After that I tried to settle down . |
| 25 | Could I take er , a minute and , and just try and look at the steps that you 've gone through and I , I tried to write down as you were doing it , giving your presentation , the steps which I think everybody eventually went through either formally or informally and I think if we look at these steps you 'll agree yes , I needed that and I did that or , we did n't do it formally . |
| 26 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 27 | The wall-ladder below is unsafe , and requires a successful I test to climb down without falling ( 3 yard fall ) . |
| 28 | I want to sit down . ’ |
| 29 | When I want to sit down and have a cigarette I have n't got any . |
| 30 | Christine you 'll have to get your feet down me love I want to sit down . . |