Example sentences of "down and [verb] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We came down and realised there was water coming through the back door and the walls . |
| 2 | After a year or two of keeping house for Hugh , she put her foot down and said it was ridiculous not to use her money . |
| 3 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 4 | I looked down and saw there was blood on his forehead . |
| 5 | I feel down and thought they were going to come back again to finish me off . ’ |
| 6 | Put your head down and pretend nothing is happening . |
| 7 | She wanted to put the phone down and pretend it was n't happening but the noises came back and a different voice said , ‘ Sergeant MacDonald is n't here at the moment . |
| 8 | After Terry had gone upstairs we heard the dreadful shriek of tape being torn and so , when Mahmoud came down and asked which was Terry 's pee-bottle , we really could n't believe that this was anything more than another move . |
| 9 | If you are one of those women who feels guilty about the marriage/home/work situation , sit down and decide what is right for you and those closest to you . |
| 10 | Available in either black or white the first thing you notice about this guitar is that sitting down and playing it is practically impossible ; it 's worse than a Flying V in that respect . |
| 11 | ‘ Boon has always cared for the ordinary man and woman — old ladies who need help in the post office or the bloke in the pub who breaks down and confesses he 's being hounded by loan sharks . |
| 12 | Oh , well , come on ; let's go down and see what 's for dinner . |
| 13 | yes it 's Richard , wait a minute , lets go down and see what 's the matter with Ri , what 's the matter Richard ? |
| 14 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |