Example sentences of "she had [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 For , when she had woken up , rather late that morning , her usual brightness had been replaced by a quiet , sinking unhappiness , and instead of getting straight out of bed and opening the curtains to see what kind of weather was there , she had huddled down between the sheets , reluctant to face anything .
2 She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years .
3 When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on .
4 She had to sit down on the ground .
5 In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement .
6 But she was gone , she had run down in the thick tree shadows to a side street , was down that and in the busy main street within sixty seconds after she had thrown the stone .
7 Sarah was kept busy replenishing dishes , and every time she had to go down to the kitchen she was afraid of missing the Reverend Morey , but he appeared last of all .
8 She had to chow down with the others in the common-room now she was mobile .
9 She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her .
10 After her abortive attempt to break into journalism , she had gone down to the beach , flung off her dress , and plunged into the water at Backyards .
11 He watched her go alone , the trappings she had brought down to the beach left abandoned .
12 She was not proud to have been the cause of splitting her family up ; nor could she forget how her father 's love had turned to disgust ; and how could she easily reveal the shame which she had brought down on the Wards ?
13 She held up the notes she had copied down from the drums in the German docks .
14 White as any linen , she had sunk down on a rock .
15 At first he had assumed that she had climbed down to the lower deck and gone forward .
16 She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place .
17 And then she had lain down in the dark , naked but for her flimsy shawl , the window open to let in the night , and waited .
18 It was the first time she had sat down during the lesson .
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