Example sentences of "when he [adv] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he eventually came down , he was punished with two months in solitary confinement . |
| 2 | The XJ-Two Twenty , which costs almost half a million pounds was being test driven by a motoring journalist , when he accidentally changed down to first gear instead of third while travelling at NINETY miles an hour.It 'll need about twenty thousand pounds to mend the broken car … the driver 's wounded pride may take a little more work . |
| 3 | She was reassured when he suddenly looked down at her and winked appreciatively . |
| 4 | I was beginning to think that the staring match would never stop when he suddenly sat down and began to finger some papers on the top of his desk . |
| 5 | And when he too sat down again , he was that much nearer — this time as though not meaning to miss any nuance of an expression that came over her face . |