Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Bodie went up the steps and stared down at the girl , who looked up at him pathetically . |
| 32 | Cancel the wedding or the holiday , sell the theatre/football/movie tickets , put the dog in kennels and get down to the Wembley Exhibition Centre … sharpish ! |
| 33 | Balberith tore a section of reinforced steel roof from the military vehicle and glared down through the hole . |
| 34 | His voice trailed off and Ruth looked sharply at him as he lowered his gaze and looked down at the paperwork in front of him . |
| 35 | He was assigned to what was vaguely described as ‘ guard duty , ’ warned not to talk about his work and taken down to the basement to start . |
| 36 | Last weekend we booked a 55-seater coach and went down to the youth soccer international at Wembley between England and Italy and had a marvellous time . ’ |
| 37 | He was sick of the sound of keys and worn down by the slicing pain . |
| 38 | She tiptoed across the aisle and sat down beside the motionless figure . |
| 39 | Oliver sighed deeply , stuffed his treasure back into his pockets and sat down on the grass to watch . |
| 40 | Hands thrust inside his jacket pockets , Kuhlmann went over to the window and stared down into the courtyard again . |
| 41 | She rose from the bed where she had spread out the rosettes , strode to the window and stared down into the garden . |
| 42 | Athelstan went over to the window and stared down at the chess table . |
| 43 | Then he walked over to the window and stared down at the chess board . |
| 44 | He opened his window and hollered down into the courtyard for the scraggy Monkey-boy who had become his slave . |
| 45 | I stood at the window and looked down into the street . |
| 46 | He went to the window and looked down into the street . |
| 47 | Mum went over to my window and looked down at the street . |
| 48 | I lay on my bed with a computer magazine and , from time to time , went to the window and looked down at the darkened street . |
| 49 | He stood at a window and looked down over the trees , where rooks were crossing sticks in a light sway of air . |
| 50 | He walked to the window and gazed down through the net curtains . |
| 51 | Meredith closed the window and sat down on the edge of the bed . |
| 52 | I turned away from the window and sank down upon the bed . |
| 53 | It hit the green and finished down in the rough with the flag just over a little rise ( he was down in Duncan 's Hollow ) . |
| 54 | I suspect the answer lies in the demographic changes of the 1980s , which showed a substantial and unexpected in-migration to Scotland , on the same scale and pattern as the ‘ incomers ’ to Wales who were selling off expensive property in south east England and settling down on the proceeds . |
| 55 | Charlotte stepped into the hall and grinned down at the dog . |
| 56 | Jessica got to her knees , holding herself and snorting , then staggered to her feet and ran down to the water . |
| 57 | The lassitude still on her , she came slowly to her feet and looked down at the boy , who stood up , shifting uneasily . |
| 58 | Fulke shuffled his feet and looked down at the floor . |
| 59 | And crawled over the edge of the dish and slid down into the mushy stuff . |
| 60 | Moving very , very slowly , she wrapped her arms around her waist and sat down on the bench . |