Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bites generally occur when someone has sat down in woodland , bracken or heather , unaware that they are close to or on an adder . |
| 2 | The day I came here I 'd gone down to Age Concern — I used to go there for meetings and bingo — and I told them I was n't stopping because I 'd no money . |
| 3 | He said you 'd have no idea where to start and , in any event , he had bribed two shepherds to say I 'd gone down to Foxton Mire . |
| 4 | Pat : He was six months old and I 'd gone down for his second immunisation and I mean the doctor I went to see was a family doctor — I 've known him since I was a baby — and he just , he was looking at him and he just said , ‘ Is your husband Chinese ? ’ |
| 5 | I 'd 've been quicker if I 'd gone down into Brentwood , picked up the M twenty five and gone on the A one M |
| 6 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 7 | The rocks of the Bomb Circle usually get me thinking and this time was no exception , especially considering the way I 'd lain down inside them like some Christ or something , opened to the sky , dreaming of death . |
| 8 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 9 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
| 10 | I had travelled down to Punta Arenas , which the biblical authority of the South American Handbook said was the best jumping-off point . |
| 11 | Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him . |
| 12 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 13 | Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her . |
| 14 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 15 | Just before getting in the trucks , I had wandered down to the rooms where the crippled legionnaires lived . |
| 16 | I 've gone down to one egg in me freezer |
| 17 | Now for the that out and I 'll see what I 've written down for this Oh yeah er see Sue lost it erm well it 's a canine meaning , you know , the rose erm the dog rose . |
| 18 | Like I said , I 've slowed down in the past for people like that and they have n't you know I do n't think that |
| 19 | My social life , you can say I 've cut down on that . |
| 20 | I 've cut down on all the exercise I felt necessary to do and always have fourth helpings but nothing can bring back my third chin , I do n't know what to do , ’ said the man . |
| 21 | There used to be big families I 've seen down at there were six girls there . |
| 22 | I do n't think I 've come down to earth since the day I met her . ’ |
| 23 | Erm finally erm I 've come down with whatever it is that 's going around and erm you 'll notice that my voice is even more gravelly than normal erm I hope it holds out erm for the duration of this lecture . |
| 24 | A a apart from Chris and Bill , I 've sat down with all the M S fours an and been through the changes to the appointment contract , and how they now erm form the basis of the er interim client report . |
| 25 | One evening , as they worked happily together , feeding and attending to the livestock , George said , ‘ I 'll just take a walk along the beck before we settle down , and check those sheep I 've brought down for lambing . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Listen , this is luxury to some of the places I 've dossed down in . ’ |
| 27 | He says , ‘ I 've settled down to my own lyrical thing ’ : small , free-standing , autonomous stained glass panels , whose figuration recalls medieval glass and Renaissance painting , and whose brushwork has a timeless , flourishing spontaneity . |
| 28 | Since then I 've settled down to 8st 4 . |
| 29 | Never cancelled d I 've cancelled down like equations and things . |
| 30 | I blush to admit my failure but I have cut down by half and the will to stop completely is as strong as ever . |