Example sentences of "then [vb past] [pn reflx] down " in BNC.

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1 Station Officer Alan Bridle , from Canning Place 's Green Watch , said : ‘ When we arrived I got up on to the roof and then lowered myself down into the centre .
2 He shrugged , spreading his arms wide , then threw himself down upon a threadbare chaise-longue , his hands behind his head .
3 Bathsheba walked up and down , crying and whispering to herself , then threw herself down by the road , exhausted .
4 She spread them out , then settled herself down on the sleeping-bag beside the fire to comb her hair dry .
5 Wynne-Jones rammed his stick into the ground then eased himself down from his mount .
6 He offered her the only chair then set himself down on the edge of the bed , facing her .
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