Example sentences of "when he [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He had heard shots , including the rapid fire of automatics , but when he rushed down to the river-bank the kidnappers had already vanished with their victims . |
| 2 | When he lied down like that and he was pissed off |
| 3 | When he looked down at her again his expression was strangely blank . |
| 4 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 5 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 6 | When he got down to Punctuality and Considerateness as a Driver , he decided to give up and improvise . |
| 7 | But when he glanced down at his chest , he saw to his intense relief the smashed casing and circuitry of his radio showing through torn material . |
| 8 | But when he arrives down under , the simple enquiry leads to other more disturbing questions . |
| 9 | He was a final-year student there when he went down to the provincial town of Kecskemet to earn some pocket money by delivering lectures . |
| 10 | Jordi Burillo , who delighted his home-town audience in Barcelona on Thursday by conquering Boris Becker in the Spanish Open , quickly returned to a place on the sidelines when he went down to Horst Skoff later the same day . |
| 11 | When he went down from Oxford he was commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers , his godfather 's regiment , and took the name of Doughty-Wylie . |
| 12 | However , unknown to Lee , under his ball were bramble runners , so that when he came down to it , his hand got turned and he only moved the ball a few inches . |
| 13 | When he came down to Hillmarden that Friday night he did not , mercifully , refer to her mid-week sortie . |
| 14 | WHEN HE CAME down to breakfast next morning Wycliffe found the hall full of suitcases ; the conference was breaking up . |
| 15 | I wrote a note to Leon , left it on the hall table for him to find when he came down at God knows what time , and went into breakfast . |
| 16 | In fact , Sir Adrian had no preconceived ideas about the sort of career he would follow when he came down from Cambridge with a degree in economics . |
| 17 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 18 | When he stepped down from the editorship , the November 1975 issue carried a story slamming student apathy and a cartoon captioned : ‘ Will Tiger Tim 's boat sink without a replacement ? ’ |
| 19 | When he lay down beside her she impulsively turned to him . |
| 20 | He realised why when he walked down to where Main Street crossed the railroad tracks and saw the grass-grown rails , the deserted depot and the dusty windows of the empty fertiliser works . |
| 21 | Brian Swan was first to the ball when Townsend 's penalty came off the right-hand post and Swan was also in support of the stand-off when he touched down for his first try . |
| 22 | E/A kept on steady course at about 220mph until attacked , when he dived down to sea level at about 250–280pmh [ sic ] and I made two attacks one at 16000 when E/A took slight evasive action by executing gentle turns . |
| 23 | SIX years ago Francis Emeruwa launched a promising career when he scrummed down with four Wasps colleagues in the London Division pack against the All Blacks . |
| 24 | In spite of the headset that he wore for the flight , his ears were still ringing when he climbed down from the helicopter . |
| 25 | But this would have been to start from the visible , and the whole tabernacle exists as the necessary " wrapping " for the invisible God when he comes down to be with his people . |
| 26 | Each night he would be more red-eyed , hardly able to drag his feet with tiredness , his face caked white with lime , lime in his eyes and ears and nostrils , his throat dry , lime thick through his hair and clothes and when he sat down to the table he felt as if he were eating lime . |
| 27 | When he sat down on his romantic bank by his crystal brook , the thought of turning the journey into a book was born : ‘ Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration . ’ |