Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not . |
| 2 | I had not looked through those volumes for many years , until these recent developments led me to get down from the shelf the Devon and Cornwall volume once more . |
| 3 | Lee knocked again , and this time the door was immediately opened and he found himself staring down into the large black barrels of a sawn-off shotgun . |
| 4 | Mary found herself looking down at the small dapper figure of Sidney Watkins , manager of the Berkeley Chase for the last ten years . |
| 5 | So she changed direction again and found herself walking down to the prom and out along the beach to Seal Sands Lock . |
| 6 | One morning , Santa found him lying down on the snow , staring at a dead flower with tears dropping off his little cheeks . |
| 7 | Officers found him face down in the undergrowth minutes after his wife reported him missing on Wednesday night . |
| 8 | The handshake was a stupid idea as she was still holding Darren , but she let him slide down to the floor and we shook . |
| 9 | He slung his cloak of feathers over the staff and Scathach helped him to sit down in the slight shelter that this garment offered . |
| 10 | I helped him sit down on the one centre thwart and arranged his legs as comfortably as possible , Harry cursing and wincing by turns . |
| 11 | Ajayi was trying to cultivate the seneschal 's acquaintance ( when her sore leg and stiff back let her get down to the basement levels where he was usually to be found ) whereas Quiss had started out trying to intimidate him . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've all got to share , ’ she said , as they passed through the swing doors and found themselves looking down at the courtyard of the Museum . |
| 13 | ‘ He made his way along the road until a colleague told him to sit down on the pavement . |
| 14 | Mrs Fry went straight to the kitchen , told us to sit down at the table , opened the oven ( split-level cooker , of course ) and got out a huge pot . |
| 15 | Then she asked , ‘ What on earth made you go down to the beach ? |
| 16 | Charles could have chosen any excuse for the phone call and it was pure chance that he had lighted on the meaningless ‘ numberplate racket ’ I ‘ So that 's what made you drive down in the Datsun , and move the plan forward , and lose a quarter of a million pounds ? ’ |
| 17 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 18 | Maha followed them but Hussa and I threw ourselves face down on the warm , white sand , both of us smiling at the success of the project . |
| 19 | Dauntless shambled over to the edge of the stream and threw himself face down on the grass , cupping handfuls of water and throwing it over his head , gulping it greedily . |
| 20 | He collected his boarding card and found a seat in the cafeteria that allowed him to look down on the concourse . |
| 21 | We heard them settling down in the next room which until then had been empty . |
| 22 | Then I heard him call down from the attic for me to open the stairs door wide . |
| 23 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |
| 24 | I thought , when I heard him coming down through the bushes , it could be no one but Tutilo . |
| 25 | When he returned he fell down on the floor clutching his heart in an agonia of pain and trembling . |
| 26 | With a bright flicker of satisfaction , she watched him slide down into the water , his large body making a flurry of waves ripple the surface . |
| 27 | Mandy rushed over , and made her sit down on the couch . |
| 28 | You know , she made him sit down in the middle in front of everybody you see |
| 29 | Susan made him climb down from the organ and walk over to her , but his uncoordinated limbs reminded her too much of the zombies in Corin Santangelo 's horror Dream Eyeball Gougers from Italy . |
| 30 | And she felt herself spiralling down into the fiery darkness . |