Example sentences of "she [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and she , he , she goes down to the abortion centre right after and he dies ! |
| 2 | Tilda appeared with a ball of oozing clay in her arms which she flung down on the table . |
| 3 | Maybe she slows down in the cold . |
| 4 | There was a lump in her throat as she gazed down on the gaunt features . |
| 5 | She gazed down at the London horizon , its tranquillity pierced by hulks of office buildings . |
| 6 | She gazed down at the floor despondently . |
| 7 | Her tattered shirt and ancient denims in no way detracted from her tall decorum as she gazed down upon the squat clerical figure . |
| 8 | When I stick my head round the door and tell Rachel I have to go out again , she sits down on the bed without a word . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She got down on the floor and ran her arm under the bookcase . |
| 11 | She got down into the hall . |
| 12 | She got down from the jeep , straightened her dress and headed back towards the barn . |
| 13 | She sit down on the chair but she 'll want to stand up a little bit cause we got bins underneath and she wants to put her feet on the bins |
| 14 | She hopped down to the floor , but it seemed further away than she had expected and now suddenly it was rising up crazily to meet her . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As she bent down over the fire , her nose-ring and the silver coins of her necklace glinted fiercely . |
| 17 | She peered down into the water but was aware only of her own reflection and that of the branches of the beech trees . |
| 18 | Lifting it , she peered down into the blackness below , feeling the first rung of a rickety ladder as she dangled her foot into the yawning gap . |
| 19 | ‘ Mummy will be cross , ’ she murmured , wrinkling her nose as she peered down at the long tear . |
| 20 | She peered down at the dark water in the basin below . |
| 21 | She bore down on the surprised Jane like a galleon in full sail and demanded , imperiously , what she intended to ‘ do ’ with the house . |
| 22 | As for you , boy ’ — she bore down on the student — ‘ are you one of my new dressers today ? |
| 23 | She bore down on the hybrids and , with her claws , she killed them almost before they realized . |
| 24 | She knelt down on the cushion , placed her ungloved hands together , closed her eyes and appeared to be either thinking or sleeping in an upright kneeling position . |
| 25 | She knelt down by the low window , put her head on her arms and cried bitterly . |
| 26 | She moved down to the kerbside , smiling graciously as she elbowed her way through the crowd . |
| 27 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
| 28 | She sank down to the ground , hugging her knees and rocking herself back and forth to keep warm . |
| 29 | She sank down on the bed . |
| 30 | She watched him go back to the kitchen and when he had shut the living room door firmly , she sank down on the rug in front of the gas fire with her back propped against the armchair and sipped gloomily at the wine . |