Example sentences of "i [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extract 1 : The ghost One day me met a witch Jamaica [ inaudible ] me ( gor ra ) mother — me saw her dere , me sit down an she tell me all the story alrigh% ? |
| 2 | ‘ But Mr Carson said ‘ Are you going to make me sit down ? ’ |
| 3 | mummy me sit down and , and |
| 4 | Oh erm let me slow down this bit , erm no it 's twen , oh it is twenty six ninety nine anywhere else , I 've seen it but in Argos , Wi , well William looked in the catalogue on Tuesday for me , but he said it was nineteen ninety nine in Argos |
| 5 | ‘ Thou left me speyed down wi ’ the family . |
| 6 | My mother wanted me to go down to the bungalow with them and because I wanted — I wanted our relations to improve — well , I said I would . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 8 | Its tunnels were almost big enough for me to go down , and sticking my head down one , I had my first smell of badger — and , of course , completely ruined my chance of seeing any animals that day . |
| 9 | They permitted me to go down into Tara 's Sorcery Chambers for this . |
| 10 | Oh for me to go down there . |
| 11 | Another recurrent crisis , during university years , was the cerebral accident — a subarachnoid haemorrhage unambiguous enough for me to sit down with pen and I paper and put my affairs in order . |
| 12 | I can see why he asked me to sit down ! |
| 13 | But if you really want to punish me , force me to sit down and watch The Gladiators . |
| 14 | She saw that I was looking pale and vacant and told me to sit down . |
| 15 | Had she been Matron , her telling me to sit down would have told me immediately that whatever her reason for wanting to see me it was not to sack me . |
| 16 | He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details . |
| 17 | I stumbled to the first landing before the recurring cramp forced me to sit down on the floor . |
| 18 | She was obviously puzzled , but she invited me to sit down , and offered me a glass of sherry . |
| 19 | Eliot saw the point , and asked me to sit down forthwith and draft a synopsis . |
| 20 | Also , when he gestured to me to sit down on the mats which covered the floor , I could not but observe two fairly fresh ( tuskless ) skulls above the door by which we had entered . |
| 21 | I indicated a chair and she nodded that it was OK for me to sit down . |
| 22 | When Sal and Kitty first set eyes on my prize , they could n't stop jumping up and down with excitement and even helped me to paint down one side , ‘ Charlie Trumper , the honest trader , founded in 1823 ’ . |
| 23 | You had me pegged down as a full-time thief . ’ |
| 24 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 25 | It was extremely difficult for me to write down one good characteristic about myself , let alone ten , and it was quite evident that whereas I saw myself as perpetually black , I saw my wife , Joyce as shining white and a lot of other people in the same colour . |
| 26 | When I called the police , they instructed me to write down everything the caller had said . |
| 27 | Squire Trelawney , Dr Livesey , and the others have asked me to write down all I know about Treasure Island . |
| 28 | Finally he got so used to me calling that he asked me to come down and give them a hand fixing it up . |
| 29 | ‘ Our man in Houston told me to come down and look at it [ epoflex ] in a hurry or it will be gone , ’ said Joseph Raska , materials and test paint engineer for the Texas Department of Highways . |
| 30 | You tell Ernest to see there 's a good fire for me to come down to . ’ |