Example sentences of "just [vb pp] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 've just sat down on a hairbrush ! ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Brown Owl called out anxiously to Mr. Gordon , who had just come down to the gate leading into the Brownies ' meadow . |
| 7 | I 've only just started so he said er I 've just come down to you know . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | I started to walk a way out of the main bedroom and I heard P C say words to the effect of get down and I turned round to see what was going on and the man was trying to roll over to get up or that 's what I thought , erm not kicking or or fighting or anything but just to me it looked as though he was going to get up and I went back and with my hands just pushed down onto him and said stay there , it will all be explained er and then walked away . |
| 11 | Most days I saw damage , people with huge problems , emotional , social , financial — sometimes self-inflicted , mostly just handed down to them . |
| 12 | I , I was very angry abo , with what Prince Charles said erm about education , because his ideas are just handed down without any , ah , without us ha being informed in any way of where he 's getting his information from . |
| 13 | And when it 's still green if you get a little knife and just slit down like that , a sap comes out , all |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | On 4 May 1987 a bank holiday Monday , we had just settled down to lunch before watching A Man for all Seasons . |
| 16 | Cursin " he was " cos he 'd just settled down to his kipper . |
| 17 | Moorcock 's people are amusing on their own terms , in their own right , and not just set down as figures of fun . |
| 18 | I 've just driven down from Manchester and I 'm slightly knackered . |
| 19 | Sir Adrian Cadbury , who has just stepped down as chairman of Cadbury Schweppes , has been appointed a member of the Takeover and Mergers Panel . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It 's not gone through the post and arrived battered , torn or creased ; and it 's not going to be just plumped down in piles on the floor . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And then she saw to her amazement that the man who had just climbed down from the cab was knocking on her door . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course , ’ she murmured , and smiled to show that her heart had not just sunk down into her boots . |
| 26 | 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 . |