Example sentences of "he [verb] down and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he swooped down and landed on a road near Varadero Beach , right in the middle of evening rush-hour traffic . |
| 2 | When the Farmer has finished he sits down and goes to sleep and begins counting to 100 . |
| 3 | Something on the ground caught his eye and he bent down and looked at a small print in the soft earth . |
| 4 | And he bent down and licked off the jam . |
| 5 | Instead of bending over her , he knelt down and looked at her face through the bars . |
| 6 | Now he knelt down and looked at the dead girl curiously . |
| 7 | He slowed down and scuffled across the bus-stop kicking a brick . |
| 8 | At Nice when he heard the devastating news that his Portuguese friend , the artist Amedeo de Sousa Cardoso , had died of Spanish flu he broke down and sobbed like a child . |
| 9 | The next time out with me he broke down and cried for Constance . |
| 10 | Once he broke down and cried on the radio . |
| 11 | That night to Michelle Phillips he broke down and cried like a baby . |
| 12 | His release from time-out required that he quieten down and comply with the original request on his return . |
| 13 | He leans down and looks into my eyes . |
| 14 | But after he sat down and thought about it he came in and apologised to the lads . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But after he sat down and thought about it he has come in and apologised to the lads and realised he maybe should not have said it . |
| 16 | He 's probably walked in and seen that and thought , I 'm not having this and when he sat down and thought about it , like we 've done |
| 17 | He sat down and stared at the gifts quite speechless . |
| 18 | When he found that it was locked , he understood what his grandsons had done , and he sat down and wept for their hardness of heart . |
| 19 | He sat down and fumbled for a cigarette . |
| 20 | He sat down and pushed at the lid with one filthy paw . |
| 21 | Organic causes were ruled out so , as is his wont , he sat down and talked to her . |
| 22 | He hunkered down and looked into his brother 's face . |
| 23 | 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 . |