Example sentences of "down [coord] [vb past] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kath laid her pen down and leant back , smiling at him . |
| 2 | Cotterell put his pencil down and rocked back in his chair . |
| 3 | Most was melted down and shipped back to Spain . |
| 4 | He walked without hesitation to the very front row , sat down and lay back , gazing up at the screen . |
| 5 | Startled by the suddenness of the question , she set her own glass down and stared back at him . |
| 6 | Now he 's slimmed down and laid back . |
| 7 | The watcher put the receiver down and went back to his screen . |
| 8 | She put the receiver down and went back into the cubicle . |
| 9 | She sat down and leaned back against the rock looking out over the sweep of moorland . |
| 10 | Ben set his bowl down and sat back , his every gesture momentarily — though none but Ben himself realised it — the mirror image of the T'ang 's . |
| 11 | Then he laid the file down and sat back , his eyes on her . |
| 12 | Things that had been yoked , harnessed , held down and held back by a power that was dissolving . |
| 13 | Dickinson got down and held back the prickly branches while Killion blundered out , his lips triphammering away at the opening consonants of all the swear-words he knew . |
| 14 | As night fell Polly snipped her last snip , climbed down and stood back to look at her work . |
| 15 | The vehicle details were taken down and reported back to Holbaek immediately . |