Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon , the spaceship left Earth , and everyone looked down at the burning planet . |
| 2 | What we are saying there are other emergencies and I get down to the word loneliness now is there any reason why senior citizens should n't have the facility whereby they can make telephone calls if those , they so desire , to members of the family who in many instances they have n't seen for long periods of time ? |
| 3 | A love song on the crackly Holiday Inn radio which the maid always switches on as her final flourish after she 's done the room ( Hugo and I go down to the pool and swim and use the sauna while we wait for her to finish ) or a pop song on the telly as Hugo and I eat our continental breakfast ( orange juice , coffee , a croissant and a Danish each ) , too languid even to stretch out for the remote control and switch it off — will make tears come to my eyes : move me with the desire to say , You do love me , do n't you ! |
| 4 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
| 5 | We flew above the skeletal radio mast and I stared down at the row of huge houses . |
| 6 | And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were . |
| 7 | Doug Wimbish started playing harmonics on that funny Guild bass ( the rubber-stringed Ashbory model — Ed ) and I got down to a really quiet moment , and suddenly Phil just surprised the hell out of us with this keyboard patch ! |
| 8 | I walk out to the bus , I get on the bus at the end of Care Street , I walk right along Care Street , right up Dawsons Street , brisk walk and then I 'm walking around the garage , I do n't do that much walking now , the bloody car , but I take a walk at lunchtime and I walk down to the bar , walking , if you walk , that would be total couple of miles a day |
| 9 | For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there . |
| 10 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 11 | When we 're in the flat she says she 'll make some coffee , and I sit down on a chair with my carrier by my side . |
| 12 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 13 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 14 | Mm , I thought I 'd get it , I really did think I 'd get it and I went down with a bump when I did n't |
| 15 | Having agreed that this was a good idea , David and I went down to a pub called The Three Tuns , which is in Beckenham High Street . |
| 16 | And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees . |
| 17 | there and I went down to the at and he said we got your lintel in mate , do you want to take it ? |
| 18 | So and I went down in the pool this morning |
| 19 | Andy and I went down by the river and the loch , clambering up the rocks upstream then back down , watching fish jump lazily out on the calm loch , or strike at the insects speckling those flat waters , jaws snapping underneath ; dispatching , swallowing , leaving ripples . |
| 20 | Fortunately it did n't go off , but it made a hell of a mess , and I came down in a shell-hole just outside our wire . ’ |
| 21 | Billy ( Nottingham ) and I came down in the afternoon to help . |
| 22 | ‘ I tell you what , if it 's a nice day why do n't your mother and I come down to the tournament on Sunday ? |
| 23 | It disregards the net put there to discourage the heron , and I come down in the morning to find a dog-shaped depression in the mesh and all the fish having a nervous breakdown . |
| 24 | Paddy handed me a mug of tea and I sat down on a jerry-can . |
| 25 | I went into a toilet and there was none and I sat down on the toilet , looked up , they were all above the door , five of them ! |
| 26 | In the shopping centre , I was gratified to see my name up on the Day 's Attractions board , and I sat down at a prepared place by the side of the stage . |
| 27 | We had a very impromptu meal which was brought out from somewhere near Bahrain because our landing area was in a small offshore sand strip where the Nos 55 and 84 Squadron aircraft ( also a Valentia from No 70 Squadron , which was our support aircraft ) were all based overnight and I went to sleep in this hot and humid place , The humidity factor at Bahrain was very high indeed , in the 90s , but I went to sleep quite comfortably on a groundsheet having dug a little hole for my not very considerable hips , weighing very little above 9 stone , and I settled down for the night . |
| 28 | As Taff and I ducked down into the trench I upset the remains of my meal over the floor . |
| 29 | Well that 's that 's er and I look down on no one actually . |
| 30 | One of the officers showed me into the aeroplane and himself sat down in the pilot 's seat . |