Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 2 | Cursin " he was " cos he 'd just settled down to his kipper . |
| 3 | There was a certain cynicism in the agency girl 's eyes , but Diane was n't somebody who 'd just climbed down off the backwoods bus . |
| 4 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 5 | I 've just sat down on a hairbrush ! ’ |
| 6 | I 've just driven down from Manchester and I 'm slightly knackered . |
| 7 | I 've only just started so he said er I 've just come down to you know . |
| 8 | Reports said a SAM 727 had just touched down at El Dorado international airport when an Air France Boeing 747 came roaring over it and landed ahead on the same runway . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 10 | And then she saw to her amazement that the man who had just climbed down from the cab was knocking on her door . |
| 11 | Descending the stone steps from the station platform , Durham turned up the gas and had just sat down on the bench and opened his bait tin when he was startled by the apparition of a strange man followed by a large black retriever dog emerging from the coal cellar . |
| 12 | He had just sat down in front of the television , beer in one hand , chicken leg in the other , feet on the coffee table , and Sportsnight just started . |
| 13 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 14 | Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow . |
| 15 | On 4 May 1987 a bank holiday Monday , we had just settled down to lunch before watching A Man for all Seasons . |
| 16 | Also tonight , Celtic 's UEFA Cup opponents Sporting Lisbon have just touched down in Glasgow to begin preparations for their UEFA Cup tie at Parkhead . |
| 17 | I have just sat down on the wet grass when everyone around me starts to move swiftly in the direction of the wooded area just visible through the mist and gloom . |
| 18 | I know it 's just laid down as as sheet as to what you 're supposed to put down and all sorts but I ca n't remember exactly how detailed it 's got ta be . |
| 19 | Erm he 's just come down with this rotten old cough and cold again and I was going to take him to the doctor 's but then they do n't like it giving them anything and I do n't like giving him anything so |