Example sentences of "when she [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 2 | She went over to it , her mouth dry , her pulses racing , and when she looked down at the cherubic child with bright golden hair she had to grip the arms for support . |
| 3 | When she looked down into the channel with Gazzer and saw Simon , water swilling round his waist , she could hardly believe that she was responsible . |
| 4 | When she came down to the drawing room , Dada was looking particularly small , too . |
| 5 | Nurse Jones was a busy woman and he valued the minutes he had with her over a cup of tea when she came down from the bedroom . |
| 6 | When she went down to the kitchen eight mugs on the draining-board said that someone had washed up ; she was the last . |
| 7 | When she went down to the sitting-room to pour tea for her mother , the latter was in one of her most waspish moods . |
| 8 | Once or twice when she crept down to the turn in the stairs to see if it was safe to go and get something to eat , she was scared back by the murmur of unfamiliar voices , and saw three or four bicycles parked in the hall , leaning together with their pedals tangled in each others ' spokes , forming an intricate barrier to outside . |
| 9 | Marie Wilkes had to make that decision when she broke down on the M50 in the Summer of 1988 . |
| 10 | And similarly , most of the CTC and especially the , were utterly and outspokenly delighted when she stood down from the committee on moving to PLACE . |
| 11 | She trailed a hand along an imaginary banister , sweeping the other behind where the skirts of a ball-gown would have trailed and was so tangibly created that when she sat down on the sofa Delia Sutherland moved to make room for the folds of that gown . |
| 12 | When she sat down at the table her mother said , ‘ Well , you can help yourself , I 've got my hands full here . ’ |