Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 2 | I was taken down to the block [ punishment wing ] and they left me there for two days . |
| 3 | Well I tried and then I was let down by the group . |
| 4 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
| 5 | It was just as I was sitting down in the living room with my cup of coffee that I realised I 'd left my bag on the train . |
| 6 | I felt like a portly 60 year old man with a beard , and that I was shuffling down to the shops in my espadrilles like he does , with his horrible , ratty little dog . ’ |
| 7 | I was carried down to the ambulance and taken to a Kendal hospital . |
| 8 | I was shoved down on the bed , the soldier left and the slattern bustled in with a small manchet loaf and a goblet of wine . |
| 9 | A 184 year old cedar tree which was blown down in the January storms was the focus of an enterprising initiative in April at Claremont Landscape Garden , Surrey . |
| 10 | And I was working upstairs in er what 's called the gascon module , Which was shut down at the time for repair work and things like that . |
| 11 | Then we fitted each tyre back on to the wheel which was clamped down on the tyring platform . |
| 12 | A hand on the telephone receiver , she paused in the act of reading Florian and Nicky 's number which was jotted down on the pad beside it , and threw Luke a challenging glance . |
| 13 | In Virginia , dependence on a one-crop export trade led to trouble : the price of tobacco continued to fall after Charles 's restoration , and thus was the main reason for Bacon 's rebellion in 1675 , which was put down by the government of the colony before royal troops arrived from England . |
| 14 | ‘ His hair had been clipped as closely as possible to the scalp , with the exception of a small patch on the crown of the head , which was pulled down over the forehead to form a fringe . ’ |
| 15 | The crowd also demanded the removal of the two remaining statues of Stalin from central Ulan Bator , one of which was taken down by the authorities on Jan. 16 . |
| 16 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 17 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 18 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 19 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 20 | She supposed that she must face the fact that she was run down after the years of nursing and the final shock of Donald 's death . |
| 21 | Then , before she realised it , they had stopped and she was pushed down to the ground next to Sung , her back to him . |
| 22 | Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling . |
| 23 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 24 | She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience with sick children . |
| 25 | Baroness Thatcher too is an Oxford graduate , but when moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her in the nineteen eighties , she was turned down by the same people , amid stormy controversy . |
| 26 | She was held down on the bed whilst a variety of sexual acts were performed on her . |
| 27 | She told teachers she was weighed down by the responsibilities of looking after her three younger sisters , including a nine-month-old baby . |
| 28 | She was staring down at the undulating ground . |
| 29 | She was walking down towards the ferry with Mr Clark and found the way blocked by a stationary train of wagons . |
| 30 | She put the tray she was carrying down on the wrought iron table . |