Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] down [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | for It was no good my making a list before I came down because I just had n't seen anything like this in the Marks in Norwich . |
| 2 | I came down when my husband was working on the factory site then as I say , prior to us coming to live here this was had n't been even built so we 've seen it grow from the floor to what it is today , you know ? |
| 3 | I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor . |
| 4 | Two or three times I fell down when I was wearing it , that was outside in the market place . |
| 5 | Cos I asked about that before I travelled down because I was worried in , you know , in case of breaking down . |
| 6 | I slid down until I became entangled in some bracken . |
| 7 | By some kind of irony this was exactly the reverse of the trouble with masonry cathedrals which fell down because they turned out to be in tension when the builders held that they were in compression . |
| 8 | I know but the twenty fourth if you came down cos you |
| 9 | She broke down as she surveyed the scene . |
| 10 | She broke down when she told me that her little boy ( now six years old ) had asked every year to be taken to see Father Christmas in a nearby store , and every year she had had to disappoint him . |
| 11 | When she came to Calvary , ‘ she fell down because she could not stand or kneel , and rolled and wrested with her body , spreading her arms abroad ’ , because she had a vision , or hallucination , of the Crucifixion . |
| 12 | She lay down after she 'd got the children to school . |
| 13 | I wondered how many of them glanced down as they processed in their finery into the castle for tea with the Queen . |
| 14 | I must say I was quite surpri I 've never set foot in the place before since that time we went down before it was open . |
| 15 | Well we 'd have finished if we sat down when you did . |
| 16 | ‘ I think part of me shut down because he was unavailable and I was terrified of him dying and leaving me alone . ’ |
| 17 | She crooked her finger at him , and he bent down until her lips were at his ear . |
| 18 | Ultimately , they said , it broke down because it simply could not deliver the goods . |
| 19 | I do n't know how it went down because I was at home in bed asleep at night . |