Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 So she pressed down on the button more firmly .
2 So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh .
3 Somehow she scrambled down into the hollow and landed on her knees by Fand .
4 When later on she went down to the sea she felt almost as cheerful again as in pre-Andrée days .
5 One of Aunt Tossie 's luxuries was an early breakfast in bed — later she came down to the dining room where she ate a second .
6 Moodily she looked down at the ground .
7 ‘ Why did n't she go down with the others ? ’
8 Maybe she slows down in the cold .
9 Alexandra would find her by the fire in the drawing-room in the afternoons , the Pekinese guarding her against invisible dangers , then she came down in the mornings and needed letters written , wools held .
10 Then she went down to the cancer shop and asked if she could help them .
11 Then she flopped down in the chair opposite .
12 Then she settled down at the dining-room table with her book purchases , which she had picked at random from the shelves of Tollemarche 's only book store and from the racks of one of the cigar stores .
13 Then she sat down on the bed , took off her hat and eased her patent leather pumps off her rapidly swelling feet .
14 Then she sat down on the floor , in the dark , green room among the birds .
15 Then she sat down in the middle of the court .
16 Well she does and the hardest part , I think there is when she comes down in the morning and for five years he was there
17 ‘ That 's where she fell down on the sidewalk , and cried and cried and cried … ’
18 After this brief affair with TV , Kylie returned to the classroom where she knuckled down to the job of passing her exams .
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