Example sentences of "i down " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the school 's first job was to cut me down to normal proportions — which they did . |
| 2 | Tried Danny , hoping a game would calm me down , but no reply . |
| 3 | I 'm on in five minutes , that old ass slowed me down . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ In the year before my vision went , I did n't let it get me down , ’ Andrew said . |
| 5 | I always reply , ‘ It 's the Sixties for you now , dear , so you get out there and make a wally of yourself ’ — and he has never let me down in that respect , I am glad to say . |
| 6 | A constable in Easton once said , ‘ If anything gets me down it 's bloody sociology . |
| 7 | Then one day my father sat me down and said , ‘ Lisa , I have some bad news I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ This fucking audience is getting me down , ’ he said . |
| 9 | That was the common ground between us ; the reason I got the job in the first place was because I could play The Faces ' ‘ Three Button Hand Me Down ’ . |
| 10 | He sat me down . |
| 11 | ‘ My hosts have driven me down the avenue and given me the figures . |
| 12 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 13 | The last leg took me down through the fringes of the Forest of Dean along a narrowing spur . |
| 14 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |
| 15 | Viscount Althorp said of reporters covering his engagement : ‘ They wanted to get back , bring me down , and make Victoria 's [ his wife 's ] life a misery . ’ |
| 16 | If I look up to the blue sky , as yet I must when it is blue and bright suddenly , it is in spite of the heavy limb and relaxing back that will drag me down or cause me to hasten home . |
| 17 | ‘ He stopped me down the village . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Why did you bring me down to watch that ? ’ he said gruffly . |
| 19 | You wo n't go letting me down . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm telling you , ’ she said , ‘ when I heard that big clock in the hall striking the five , you could 've knocked me down with a feather ! |
| 21 | Waiting for me down on the sands — a great hulking shape , crouching there , darker than darkness . |
| 22 | ‘ Let me down a bit more ! ’ |
| 23 | Hitler 's let me down . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps you could help Cook to wash up , ’ she suggested , bringing me down to earth with a bang . |
| 25 | Put me down , you … you … ’ |
| 26 | My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell . |
| 27 | Skirting a tinker camp , Mrs M. eventually put me down beside the fast-flowing River Moy at Ballina . |
| 28 | ‘ Sometimes it does get me down , but I get over that and then it is off to the next place . ’ |
| 29 | A sequence in which they knock me down and I get up . |
| 30 | Then they knock me down , I think it over and get up . |