Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 2 | She tried lying down on the bare mattress , but the whole place felt cold and close . |
| 3 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 4 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 5 | It would always be the partner with a wife and kids who got shot down in the line of duty , giving his bachelor buddy the chance poignantly to break the news to his loved ones . |
| 6 | I think that it was when he got turned down for the job of a bus conductor . |
| 7 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 8 | And , every twenty minutes or so , a storm broke : thunder rumbled , lightning flickered , and tropical rain came crashing down from the showerheads fitted in the ceiling . |
| 9 | The ground trembled and over-head many bikes , toy tractors , etc. strung above the ceiling for display purposes , came crashing down upon the team . |
| 10 | Erm but I say there , there were a couple of erm objections that came up during the course of the conversation which really resulted because you , you 'd fallen down on the actual structure , but having said that then again there were two or three examples that you apacked and you got through very well and you , you recovered yourself well on that and , and I say really I think that 's er that 's covered most of the bits that , that I felt were , were there . |
| 11 | And you could bet that the moment he 'd left they 'd sat down in the shade . |
| 12 | ‘ And I knew it from that first day when you came driving down to the chais like a crazy woman . |
| 13 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 14 | A group of shaven-headed yobbos , with tattooed cheeks and nationalistic leanings , observed this from the upper deck and came swarming down from the bus . |
| 15 | Alexei seemed to look down at the folder in his hand . |
| 16 | She 'd stayed down in the lane with a sullen look on her face . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | On Nathan 's last morning they 'd driven down to the supermarket together . |
| 19 | As the 22 men in the three boats had just taken their respective stations , a young girl came running down from the village to the shore in breathless haste . |
| 20 | The floorboards had n't snapped , as I 'd originally thought : they 'd gone down into the dock with Harry . |
| 21 | ‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened . |
| 22 | She 'd gone down to the seashore with the dogs and there he 'd been , following her . |
| 23 | and he was let out and first , within twenty four hours he 'd gone down to the South Coast and killed his mother and his girl friend |
| 24 | Gently they lifted the bedraggled form as Bert came lumbering down from the 3 and 4 landing , with Gilbert Forbes behind him , and behind him the trembling form of Jessie , wringing her hands . |
| 25 | The huge woman came billowing down to the entrance hall , dressed in bright orange , which went uncomfortably with her recently revivified red hair . |
| 26 | The vehicle shot forward , and as it did so the first rocks from above came hurtling down onto the track just behind us . |
| 27 | Finally she dived through the alley by the Revuebar and into the market on Berwick Street , a drab thoroughfare enlivened by a sudden riot of colour in the narrow sunlight that came slanting down between the buildings — the yellow awnings over the stalls , the bright shades of new fruit , the brilliant white of new cardboard . |
| 28 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 29 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 30 | Below that the car risked bogging down in the mud or grounding on an obstacle , above it the tyres might lose adhesion on the continual twists and turns or cliff-like descents , or one of the vicious pot-holes or rock outcrops rupture the suspension or pierce the sump . |