Example sentences of "just [vb pp] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOUR computer has just broken down . |
| 2 | Mr Wheeler , now moving to the rear of the plant to show off the £2m smoke-cleaning section , which had just broken down , pointed out that his company achieved destruction of at least 99.9999 per cent of all materials . |
| 3 | The Indians had taken the radio telephones ( they 'd have gone off with the genny if they 'd had a crane ) and Caracas thought they 'd just broken down again so came as per normal . |
| 4 | Lambert , limping badly , wore a French police helmet , and Dangerfield was wiping mud from his eyes : he had just fallen down . |
| 5 | I have just sat down on the wet grass when everyone around me starts to move swiftly in the direction of the wooded area just visible through the mist and gloom . |
| 6 | They had just sat down when Zach suddenly let out a cry . |
| 7 | He had just sat down in front of the television , beer in one hand , chicken leg in the other , feet on the coffee table , and Sportsnight just started . |
| 8 | Descending the stone steps from the station platform , Durham turned up the gas and had just sat down on the bench and opened his bait tin when he was startled by the apparition of a strange man followed by a large black retriever dog emerging from the coal cellar . |
| 9 | I 've just sat down on a hairbrush ! ’ |
| 10 | Apparently he was a bit worried , so I said — oh , it sounds silly — that we 'd only just got back , that I 'd just sat down … . ’ |
| 11 | He jumps up from the day-bed on which he has just sat down . |
| 12 | Nor with the grumbling of people who did n't want to stand up when they 'd just sat down . |
| 13 | who 's just sat down , I bare my Aztec profile . |
| 14 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 15 | Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow . |
| 16 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 17 | ‘ You mean , you 've just come down ? ’ said Bob , trying out of politeness not to sound incredulous . |
| 18 | I am fifteen I have just come down here in my lunch hour at school but I am having a good time . |
| 19 | I 've only just started so he said er I 've just come down to you know . |
| 20 | Erm he 's just come down with this rotten old cough and cold again and I was going to take him to the doctor 's but then they do n't like it giving them anything and I do n't like giving him anything so |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 22 | Doug Whitney was in the air and was credited with shooting down one Bf109 which had just shot down one of the Hurricanes . |
| 23 | Hagglers need nerve , particularly the ability to keep calm when they have just turned down an offer but can not yet be sure that another is forthcoming , says the book . |
| 24 | It 's about this research proposal you 've just turned down — what do you mean , ‘ It 's not proper health services research ? ’ |
| 25 | Crawford jumped at the chance to star alongside Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau in a Hollywood musical , having just turned down 10,000 to appear in a British film . |
| 26 | I started to walk a way out of the main bedroom and I heard P C say words to the effect of get down and I turned round to see what was going on and the man was trying to roll over to get up or that 's what I thought , erm not kicking or or fighting or anything but just to me it looked as though he was going to get up and I went back and with my hands just pushed down onto him and said stay there , it will all be explained er and then walked away . |
| 27 | I have just written down that I must write to him , |
| 28 | Hello , , ah , I bet it 's something I 've just written down , is n't it ? |
| 29 | When do you do a newspaper — I 've just written down here — you provide a dress and provide a grammar . |
| 30 | Most days I saw damage , people with huge problems , emotional , social , financial — sometimes self-inflicted , mostly just handed down to them . |