Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] down to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nico , ’ she 'd sigh , as he drew her down to the sand , ‘ my Nico . ’ |
| 2 | He bore her down to the carpet , his face hard against hers , one hand pulling up her skirts , and when she still struggled struck her a blow which left her half stunned on the floor , for him to do as he would with her . |
| 3 | He lowered himself down to the bed and her hands frantically flew to his bare chest . |
| 4 | Are you saying that we bundled him down to the waterside and had him hanged ? |
| 5 | The strange , wild feeling that usually drove her down to the sea was beginning to thump in her bosom . |
| 6 | ‘ Be thankful I 'm not a Gunner : I 'd 've brought my theodolite along and surveyed us down to the inch every five minutes . ’ |
| 7 | Giving her the full length of the halter , he allowed her down to the bank , to drink her fill from the water . |
| 8 | Instead of getting someone to calm me down and talk to me , a whole bunch of them came and jumped on me and rushed me down to the block and left me there . |
| 9 | Holly jack-knifed his legs over the side of the bunk , swung himself down to the floor , dropped his feet beside Adimov 's bunk . |
| 10 | Evidently deciding that prudery was the better part of valour , I hotfooted it down to the bedroom again in time to witness half the ceiling crashing in flames on to the bed I had been sleeping in moments before . |
| 11 | You followed us down to the river and waited until we returned . |
| 12 | I think he was watching the chateau for days and followed us down to the village . ’ |
| 13 | I watched them down to the causeway . |
| 14 | He bowed , kissed her hand , and led her down to the courtyard where their carriage waited . |
| 15 | Still offering no explanation , he led her down to the riverbank and then the rest of the way back to the centre . |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he said , in a conversational tone , ‘ then they took me down to the morgue . ’ |
| 17 | On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout . |
| 18 | That 's why , the morning the porter took me down to the forest , you sent Dame Catherine after me to see where we were going . |
| 19 | They took me down to the labour room . |
| 20 | They took me down to the labour ward and offered me a sedative to help me sleep . |
| 21 | He took them down to the station and sent them off to London by passenger train . |
| 22 | And she sent me down to the Headmistress and she says , ‘ You 've been drinking , have n't you ? |
| 23 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 24 | Having assured himself that he was all alone , he climbed from his bed , entered his dressing-gown and took himself down to the kitchen for the first breakfast of the day . |
| 25 | They sent one down to the hospital did n't they ? |
| 26 | Someone brought him down to the hospital a couple of hours ago , and since then his condition has deteriorated . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
| 28 | The police considered this and took him down to the station — for tea and sticky buns . |
| 29 | which was quicker , took her down to the mission , she stayed in the car till I went up to the mission to get our money signed for our money and come out and er |
| 30 | He took her down to the bathroom , and turned on the geyser for her . |