Example sentences of "down and [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pushed them down and left them on the floor . |
| 2 | She knelt down and rolled them up Bella 's legs and over her swollen knees . |
| 3 | Then he put the telephone down and rejoined her in the shop , frowning solemnly . |
| 4 | He pulled the boot down and slammed it . |
| 5 | Her fingers stroked my balls and her lips slid on my penis and in a few minutes , free to call her what I wished , I pulled her down and mounted her . |
| 6 | our Brian and he went down and got him |
| 7 | His eyes were dead , as if the Post Office van had mowed him down and killed him . |
| 8 | They 've cut it down and agreed I pay the arrears back at a pound a week . |
| 9 | Remembering what Gloria had said , Melissa took it down and sniffed it , hoping to detect some tell-tale trace of scent , but there was nothing . |
| 10 | The radio was on in the living-room , he entered and saw her lying on the floor , When he knelt down and touched her face it was warm , and she moved a little . |
| 11 | She continued to play until his hands came on her shoulders , and somehow she kept on playing until his hand lifted her loose hair behind the ear and his mouth came down and touched it . |
| 12 | Subsequently when I got back down and realised we 'd done it , and everyone had got off the mountain and no-one had been injured , I had an immense feeling of satisfaction , just of having stood there . |
| 13 | After a year or two of keeping house for Hugh , she put her foot down and said it was ridiculous not to use her money . |
| 14 | I rang him up before I went down and said I would n't be going in , I said I 'll just drop it off for you I says , cos er there 's me and June full of cold , it 's no good letting Ben get it is it ? |
| 15 | But she must have heard me say so , because at seven she came down and said she 'd overlooked this marvellous Stockhausen concert on Two — well , I just put on my coat and flung out of the house … |
| 16 | Er , and I mean , as was conventional in those days , you educate , your sons went to school and you try and , educated your girls at home , but the , the aunt put her foot down and said she would n't do it . |
| 17 | I should have just put my foot down and knocked him over . |
| 18 | No not you get different statements different erm I would n't like to repeat some of them right , but if them lads sat down and studied it erm same as I 've said now and they say , Well yes aye . |
| 19 | She was trembling as she bent down and inserted it carefully into the left-hand drawer of the desk . |
| 20 | He knelt down and re-piled them . |
| 21 | He told us to sit down and served us vinegar-tasting wine . |
| 22 | ‘ The two of you rolled it up planks on to the truck , roped it down and drove it to the site ; is that right ? ’ |
| 23 | When the police from the house rushed down and saw them riding away , they say some of them wore military uniform . ’ |
| 24 | I looked down and saw her lying between my legs , she was so small . |
| 25 | He looked down and saw he had battered his fingers bloody against the wooden lid . |
| 26 | The Trunchbull looked down and saw it and she bellowed even louder and with a swipe of her hand she sent the creature flying across the class-room . |
| 27 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |
| 28 | Go down and saw it . |
| 29 | It had to be in on the 7th October and we came back the beginning of September , so it was a bit of a rush , and that 's really one of my feelings about it — I sat down and wrote it off the top of my head and not an awful lot is very considered . |
| 30 | And he just — well , he just sort of sat down and wrote it straight off . ’ |