Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 2 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 3 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 4 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 5 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 6 | Just after six , with darkness falling , I decided to go down to the bar for a drink , was pulling on my jacket when the phone went . |
| 7 | And I went storming down to the office , did n't I ? |
| 8 | The parade I had to lead down from the station to the beat was much longer on nights . |
| 9 | Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 12 | Just before getting in the trucks , I had wandered down to the rooms where the crippled legionnaires lived . |
| 13 | I hoped to go down to the desert at Zagora . |
| 14 | I stood looking down at the pavement below the payphone while Dennis padded across the wall-to-wall carpeting and called distantly to his wife . |