Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure that everyone writes down the five you agree on . |
| 2 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
| 3 | I skidded down the escarpment in high spirits and made a bee-line for the town . |
| 4 | Back in the bathroom , so I turns down the bed , and goes . ’ |
| 5 | I fought down the ghastly urge coming up from my stomach . |
| 6 | The worst hazard of standing in that crowd was someone pissing down the back of your leg . ’ |
| 7 | I passed down the ward and opened a door at the end of a passage . |
| 8 | I swam down the coast , carried by the current . |
| 9 | I fled down the cellar and returned with the chopper . |
| 10 | I wandered down the Rue de la Carbière then I heard the first soul-searing howl : the wolves were back in Paris , hunting for whatever they could find . |
| 11 | I then told them about the apparition , how I had seen someone walking down the shed and then suddenly disappearing . |
| 12 | I retched down the front of my T-shirt and Scamp stepped back , but it did n't stop his flow . |
| 13 | We parted company , he to wait for light on Bowfell , which did not look likely , while I headed down The Band for Hodge Close and an impatient climbing partner . |
| 14 | I was shaking so much that I had to lift the kettle with two hands when I staggered down the yard . |
| 15 | I slammed down the receiver . |
| 16 | Susan and I sauntered down the aisle and took seats a few rows back . |
| 17 | I gulp down the orange drink and order another one . |
| 18 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
| 19 | I came down the slope , trying not to smirk . |
| 20 | At many revolutions per second I came down the green slide into Brixton and beyond . |
| 21 | I put down the Mail , opened the Telegraph and found the same tale , though told in less lurid terms . |
| 22 | I put down the receiver , overcome by emotion at hearing that voice again , unchanged . |
| 23 | I put down the receiver and sat on the stairs trembling with panic , and I think I must have become pale , because I remember that my face felt very cold . |
| 24 | I put down the book and accepted a drink . |
| 25 | I put down the shafts and waved with my straw hat . |
| 26 | ‘ Slowly , I put down the receiver . |
| 27 | I put down the phone slowly . |
| 28 | I put down the receiver and wept . |
| 29 | As Reid and I put down the cases we were carrying , Reid uncorked the bottle and offered me a shot of whisky . |
| 30 | I put down the empty can . |