Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd better get her into bed , ’ Otley urged , ‘ before she goes sleepwalking down to the river and falls in . ’ |
| 2 | She became bogged down by the very size of the country , the lengthy supply lines , her inability to have her army spread thickly on the ground , the increasingly effective guerilla warfare waged by the Chinese communists , as well as by debilitating rivalries within the Japanese army itself . |
| 3 | When we finally spill outside , Rachel says she wants to go down to the beach again . |
| 4 | She tried lying down on the bare mattress , but the whole place felt cold and close . |
| 5 | She 'd stayed down in the lane with a sullen look on her face . |
| 6 | She 'd gone down to the seashore with the dogs and there he 'd been , following her . |
| 7 | They sat around one end of the work table , which now seemed vast and empty , and Alina Peterson explained how she 'd walked down to the village to look around and , where it seemed appropriate , to introduce herself . |
| 8 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 9 | For , when she had woken up , rather late that morning , her usual brightness had been replaced by a quiet , sinking unhappiness , and instead of getting straight out of bed and opening the curtains to see what kind of weather was there , she had huddled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 . |
| 10 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had to chow down with the others in the common-room now she was mobile . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He watched her go alone , the trappings she had brought down to the beach left abandoned . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | She held up the notes she had copied down from the drums in the German docks . |
| 22 | At first he had assumed that she had climbed down to the lower deck and gone forward . |
| 23 | She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was the first time she had sat down during the lesson . |
| 26 | He was regarding her with unnerving concentration , until she felt she wanted to duck down under the water , fearing her swimsuit was see-through or something … |
| 27 | I tell ya , so I think we got out , we got our hair done and she wanted to go down to the mission so the hairdresser phoned a different taxi , we have this one up here , he took her down from there to the mission , cos he went down the back ways , you know , |
| 28 | She considered lying down on the floor , covered with fallen dresses , and waited for their touch on her neck . |
| 29 | She stood looking down at the tiny fireplace . |
| 30 | And she stood looking down at the key in her hand , while she said to herself , ‘ Well , this seems to decide it , does n't it ? ’ and turning , she yelled , ‘ Ben ! ’ |