Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner . |
| 2 | Walking with his gauche , bouncy tread , his shoulders hunched , Nicola 's husband led Blanche and Dexter down the steps into the kitchen and gestured for them to sit down round the kitchen table . |
| 3 | My mother wanted me to go down to the bungalow with them and because I wanted — I wanted our relations to improve — well , I said I would . ’ |
| 4 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 5 | I stumbled to the first landing before the recurring cramp forced me to sit down on the floor . |
| 6 | Also , when he gestured to me to sit down on the mats which covered the floor , I could not but observe two fairly fresh ( tuskless ) skulls above the door by which we had entered . |
| 7 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 8 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 9 | We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not . |
| 10 | They were beings like Miach , a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest . |
| 11 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 12 | In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre . |
| 13 | I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round . |
| 14 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 15 | I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks |
| 18 | I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal . |
| 19 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 20 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 21 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 22 | Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I wept a little as I climbed the creaky stairs , and when I got into the attic I knelt down beside the bed , put my hands together and prayed . |
| 25 | I wandered down to the kitchens where Wolsey 's chefs were busy creating subtleties , strange confectionery creations : towers and castles of sugar ready to launch their assault on valiant teeth . |
| 26 | Considered as an institutional bridge , Schloss Hartheim was part of my winding down from the experience of the KZ . |
| 27 | I flopped down in the seat but missed and landed on the floor . |
| 28 | I bend down to the coke . |
| 29 | I came down for the fire , for it was cold in my room . |
| 30 | ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said . |