Example sentences of "down [art] [noun] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked her up and down the kitchen and sang to her . |
| 2 | ‘ Go down the kitchen and find a couple of glasses . |
| 3 | Travel — Holidays On The Move : On an old boat to Luxor Tom Pocock cruises down the Nile and finds himself becoming an Egyptologist in a matter of days |
| 4 | Ratagan set himself to starting a fire whilst the rest rubbed down the horses and searched for firewood . |
| 5 | You go to the bed , put down the umbrella and start looking in the drawers and cupboards built into the wall units surrounding the head of the bed . |
| 6 | Mr Maxmilian Frizzell had never read a book since leaving school and did not know who Lawrence was , so he put down the newspaper and took up the Car Dealer and Garageman with what dignity he could muster . |
| 7 | He put down the candle and began to turn the pages of the book . |
| 8 | She put down the candle and left it burning there . |
| 9 | He walked down the quay and turned into a narrow cobbled street , his head bent , and his hands buried in the pockets of his overcoat . |
| 10 | Heart pounding , Polly stumbled one-handed down the companionway and dumped mugs , flask , and the plate containing the last few sandwiches in the nearer sink . |
| 11 | Saunders prusiked down the rope and made splints from pieces of sleeping mat , while the others summoned Bonington . |
| 12 | She turned down the gas and hurried to intercept the intruder . |
| 13 | Mike took the initiative , kicked down the door and went in with guns blazing , so to speak , to find — nothing ! |
| 14 | The boys ' mother , Tracey Gardiner , 29 , and her five-month-old son , escaped unharmed after a neighbour and a passing mini-cab driver broke down the door and woke them up . |
| 15 | Between us , we broke down the door and ran in . |
| 16 | A tree-creeper spidered head-first down the tree-trunk and flitted , a brown shadow , to the next creviced pasture . |
| 17 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 18 | The woman beckoned imperiously , and , sighing , Theda turned down the gallery and followed her downstairs . |
| 19 | A short mile further on , the road passes over the stream , Ais Gill , issuing from the impressive limestone confines of White Kirk , hidden by the railway viaduct and unseen and unsuspected from the road which continues uneventfully down the valley and arrives at the compact little community of Outhgill . |
| 20 | Muttering darkly beneath his breath , Bishop set down the beaker and dived for his robes . |
| 21 | My mother went down the yard and seen the boss and asked him if he could get and the fact that my mother went down the yard I suppose er he must have felt sorry for us . |
| 22 | So extracting his fireman they went down the yard and got onto 4913 . |
| 23 | Women were often portrayed in Greek dress , usually the chiton , a voluminous tunic , made of lightweight cloth such as linen , buttoned down the sleeves and belted above the waist . |
| 24 | Well if you have the footnote bible like I 've got here , you look down the bottom and speaks about those who are beggars , beggars for the spirit and just at the bottom of our road where we live er there 's a little area there which quite busy and er there 's a man who parades up and down there daily , he 's there nonstop every day of the week , you can go by there any time , any day and he 's there begging and he has no shame at all , and if you refuse him once he 'll catch you another day and he 'll ask you again , and you 'll see him there backwards and forwards and he 'll even when the traffic lights turn red |
| 25 | Tim falling down the Kud and brought in by a kind Indian , unconscious for a day , and in hospital for a week . |
| 26 | ‘ You 'll all have to do the same as me and put down the date and see , but if yer want ter know it 's the first of May . ’ |
| 27 | With time , the cells proceed further and further down the landscape and become more and more distant from each other , reflecting different patterns of gene activity . |
| 28 | Their specification however , looks down the road and anticipates the need to provide for both Microsoft Corp NT interoperability and Windows NT SparcWare applications in future . |
| 29 | DHAs have also found their freedom to make service changes heavily restricted by the political need to ensure stability in a pre-election period , slow down the changes and prevent disruption . |
| 30 | Leif sighed , put down the bowl and hobbled out of the kitchen . |