Example sentences of "i [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 . ’
2 In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh .
3 I stumbled to the first landing before the recurring cramp forced me to sit down on the floor .
4 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 .
5 I gazed down at the reclining form .
6 In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre .
7 I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round .
8 I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky .
9 I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her .
10 For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there .
11 I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks
12 I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal .
13 I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone .
14 When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking .
15 Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL .
16 Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead .
17 And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were .
18 I wept a little as I climbed the creaky stairs , and when I got into the attic I knelt down beside the bed , put my hands together and prayed .
19 I wandered down to the kitchens where Wolsey 's chefs were busy creating subtleties , strange confectionery creations : towers and castles of sugar ready to launch their assault on valiant teeth .
20 I flopped down in the seat but missed and landed on the floor .
21 I bend down to the coke .
22 I came down for the fire , for it was cold in my room .
23 ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said .
24 Billy ( Nottingham ) and I came down in the afternoon to help .
25 The figures that I quoted were given in a written answer to a question that I put down about the cutbacks in regional preferential assistance .
26 At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches .
27 I walk out to the bus , I get on the bus at the end of Care Street , I walk right along Care Street , right up Dawsons Street , brisk walk and then I 'm walking around the garage , I do n't do that much walking now , the bloody car , but I take a walk at lunchtime and I walk down to the bar , walking , if you walk , that would be total couple of miles a day
28 Shortly after a private reading with ‘ Bartholomew ’ in Taos , New Mexico , I drove down to the nearby Rio Grande .
29 One night — a Friday — I drove down to the Bois de Boulogne .
30 One Friday evening , I drove down to the lovely old house , Ramster , near Chiddingfold , where artist Mr Paul Gunn and his charming wife Miranda had invited friends to the first night of an exhibition of Paul Gunn 's most recent landscapes , and to drinks and supper .
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