Example sentences of "[vb past] down and [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Don Mini gave a signal and in five seconds Swan swooped down and landed on the tree . |
| 2 | The answer , I think , involves a partial refutation of the interactionist position : crimes do share an intrinsic quality — they involve the knowing transgression of rules laid down and enforced by the state . |
| 3 | It is perfectly conceivable that we can make some general statements about the conditions that influence our self-indulgence or self-restraint in relation to rules laid down and enforced by the state , particularly when the nature of those rules and the way they are enforced are included for consideration . |
| 4 | Now he knelt down and looked at the dead girl curiously . |
| 5 | Remembering a detail with sudden clarity , Charles knelt down and looked at the left-hand side of the front bumper . |
| 6 | She knelt down and stared at the smaller words below it . |
| 7 | I knelt down and went through the dead man 's clothing . |
| 8 | You bent down and wrote in the sand |
| 9 | Going over to her parked Jaguar , he had opened the driver 's door , bent down and felt under the seat . |
| 10 | She rose from her chair at the little antique bureau which stood in the attic window space , bent down and fumbled for the catch of the secret drawer which she had found there . |
| 11 | And he bent down and licked off the jam . |
| 12 | I dropped down and crawled to the front of the wood to have a look . |
| 13 | Subsequently , the floods came down and went over the whole bridge , topping the rails , and it was a tribute to the efficiency of both its design and erection that the bridge withstood this successfully . |
| 14 | So I gingerly walked down and crept into the car realized that I was the one that had caused all that |
| 15 | As the policeman stepped down and walked to the rear of the lorry Billy turned to Freddie and shook his head slowly . |
| 16 | I stepped down and sat on the thwart opposite to him . |
| 17 | They hailed down and clinked on the ramparts . |
| 18 | Once he broke down and cried on the radio . |
| 19 | Then she broke down and cried onto the flowery wrapping-paper . |
| 20 | Osborne broke down and confessed to the killing when a picture of the curtains in which Dean 's body was wrapped was flashed on TV . |
| 21 | Ranulf squatted down and pointed to the small indentation of a boot . |
| 22 | He slowed down and scuffled across the bus-stop kicking a brick . |
| 23 | Both of us went down and rolled off the hard , wet pavement into the gutter , but it was me who cracked the back of his head en route and me who got a boot in the stomach which even my US Navy parka did little to cushion . |
| 24 | The cat jumped down and walked across the room . |
| 25 | Izzie , who had hidden Gabriel in a barrel once again and was about to climb into one herself , jumped down and ran towards the crowd shouting , ‘ Leave them alone ! |
| 26 | There was no butter around so I jumped down and went to the living room . |
| 27 | Tam , who had been sleeping on the bed , woke suddenly , scratched himself , jumped down and marched to the door , where he stood , whining imperiously . |
| 28 | He crouched down and clung to the rail with his right hand and reached out with his left as if to punch a hole through the wall . |
| 29 | Yanto crouched down and peered under the wagon . |
| 30 | That 'll be alright so cos he slid his my brief case and er I got all the way home , no problem at all , I 'd got newspaper under the back , so it did n't scratch the back when I come to come down Mill Road this lorry 's go , I mean I got the tail gate up and er I sort of looked in the mirror , I thought oh my goodness my tail gate , I could hear it so and I braked a bit sharp and that slid down and scratched along the dash board ! |