Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flung herself down beside him . |
| 2 | Then she flung herself down into her pillows and gave way to tears of frustration and rage . |
| 3 | Breathlessly she flung herself down on the window seat . |
| 4 | Then suddenly she flung herself down on the bed and closed her eyes . |
| 5 | She flung herself down on her bunk , burying her face in the pillow . |
| 6 | She pointed to the couch , and when Millie was seated she lowered herself down beside her and , taking her hands , said , ‘ You 're frightened of that man are n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | He felt the moistness , felt the narrow aperture , then slowly , her eyes never leaving his , she lowered herself down as if she were impaling herself on his flesh . |
| 8 | She made it down into the long drawing-room with a sort of grim look on her face that Alain noted with a frown . |
| 9 | In the end she got him down to his Micronauts , his plastic airport , and a bag of Dinky cars . |
| 10 | It was a glimmering he had , but no more than that , and she cast him down from the height of her knowledge . |
| 11 | Supposing she let them down after dear Franz Busacher had connived and wheedled to make her acceptable to Gesner ? |
| 12 | And she slammed it down on the desk . |
| 13 | She threw them down through the trap door and jumped after them to look . |
| 14 | She threw herself down on the sofa , and slept . |
| 15 | She threw herself down on the bed and started crying wildly . |
| 16 | When she threw herself down on the grass , he had expected Underwood to take advantage of the situation , but he sat upright and apart . |
| 17 | ‘ Some charm , ’ she muttered as she threw herself down on the bed . |
| 18 | She threw herself down at her desk and read Nicola 's note through yet again , the sparkle of excitement in her eyes . |
| 19 | She threw it down in disgust and took a drum which Corrie showed no inclination to use , thumping it furiously to express her feelings . |
| 20 | She hauled me down to her lair to find out . |
| 21 | John Major is understood to have offered her a junior minister 's job at the Home Office , but she turned it down on the grounds that it was not sufficiently senior . |
| 22 | Ruth saw thrown spears hang in the air as if floating in water , and she thrust herself down into the grass , her face in her hands so as not to see any more . |
| 23 | Leonora felt very subdued as she followed him down to the relatively peaceful little beach of Lee Haven , where years before Joshua Probert had built a safe anchorage for his boats . |
| 24 | She held the feeling in tight , she squashed it down under the heavy pasteboard covers of the recipe book . |
| 25 | She swung herself down from the back door and went round to the front steps of the kiosk . |
| 26 | She dumped herself down on the low stone wall that skirted the churchyard . |
| 27 | Rather than taking the piece as a whole she broke it down into smaller parts and then worked on them with separate hands and at varied rhythms . |
| 28 | She pulled him down beside her in the long grass , and smiled shyly at him as she undressed . |
| 29 | In answer she pulled him down on top of her . |
| 30 | At first she could n't find him anywhere but finally she tracked him down to the big barn . |