Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] down from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dropped down from the loch only to find that the terrain was considerably steeper than I recalled on the way up , although the compass said I was doing fine . |
| 2 | When all the girls left the schoolroom at five o'clock , I climbed down from the chair and sat on the floor . |
| 3 | The festivities started with a parade through the town led by the Houlton Silver Band and as I looked down from the windows of our bed-sitter I could see them all gathering in the street below . |
| 4 | I went down from the upper grandstand as fast as I could , which was far too slowly because everyone else was doing the same thing . |
| 5 | I took down from the bookshelf above the bed a hardback edition of Hugh Brogan 's History of the United States . |
| 6 | I jumped down from the table , and ran out of the room . |
| 7 | Ramapithecus was one of several primates , such as the baboons , which came down from the trees to develop terrestrial living . |
| 8 | Somebody stepped down from the street and peered through the glass door but seeing Wycliffe went away again . |
| 9 | Although Viking was lying quietly enough at the moment we could tell by the sudden gusts which hissed down from the high southern cliff that it was blowing quite hard on the weather side . |
| 10 | A big cat that has only recently gone extinct is the sabre-tooth ( " tiger " ) , named after its colossal canine teeth which jutted down from the upper jaw in the front of what must have been a terrifying gape . |
| 11 | There was a market down the centre , the stalls facing out , but the air and ground were polluted with the blood , dirt and ordure which ran down from the shambles where the animals were slaughtered and the gore allowed to find its own channel . |
| 12 | She got down from the jeep , straightened her dress and headed back towards the barn . |
| 13 | At Christmas they always played ‘ You came down from the stars ’ and at Easter they usually played a Pastorale , and what with the roar of the traffic and the crowds of chattering shoppers or tourists it was practically impossible to distinguish the tune except in short bursts . |
| 14 | In her plain blue suit she came down from the Clubhouse with two of the owners who seemed to want to be near the horses at ground level . |
| 15 | Nurse Jones was a busy woman and he valued the minutes he had with her over a cup of tea when she came down from the bedroom . |
| 16 | She stepped down from the carriage and was going to leave him , when he stopped her and said , ‘ You 're not going to turn away from me like that , dear ? |
| 17 | Latham , aged 57 , succeeds Joe Pickavance , who stepped down from the Knowsley Road chair a week ago for health reasons . |
| 18 | As she looked down from the stand , the horses for the third race , a handicap over six furlongs , were filing out on to the racecourse . |
| 19 | She leaned down from the horse and he did n't flinch as she grabbed his long hair and shook his head from side to side . |
| 20 | Rose listened , open-mouthed , and at the end of this recital she jumped down from the wicker basket and hugged Ruth all over again . |
| 21 | Without a moment 's hesitation she jumped down from the platform of the bus , as the driver slammed on the brakes , swearing : ‘ Make up yer bleeding mind , for Gawd 's sake ! ’ |
| 22 | And similarly , most of the CTC and especially the , were utterly and outspokenly delighted when she stood down from the committee on moving to PLACE . |
| 23 | I reckon we got down from The Bells , Chell 's Field , to the bottom of , six , seven minutes . |
| 24 | After a time we dropped down from the hills on to a flat gravel plain where the track ran straight as a drawn line . |
| 25 | We dropped down from the Spa to a long stretch of empty beach and the sergeant shouted " " Right , sprint to those rocks ! |
| 26 | It all took just over a bio-day , after which we drifted down from the Valve and touched ground at the spaceport . |
| 27 | Then the removal men came out of the house for the last time , wiping their brows on their once-white aprons , and then they helped down from the van a little old lady . |
| 28 | The horse pounded surefooted along the tunnels , leaping sudden slides of rubble and adroitly sidestepping huge stones as they thundered down from the straining roof . |
| 29 | George MacDonald saw the people from Strathnaver arriving at the sea : ‘ When they came down from the Strath to the sea-shore they suffered very much from want of houses . |
| 30 | Thousands of imported sheep had left their devastating mark and the latest ‘ crop ’ , the deer , finished off any saplings the sheep might have missed when they came down from the high tops in the winter . |