Example sentences of "when he [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mooney scored the goal of the game when he burst down the left and hit a low shot into the far corner . |
| 2 | A BUSINESSMAN 'S van was purring when he drove down the A1 in East Lothian . |
| 3 | When he came down the alley toward the club 's stage door he could see that there were three rough-looking teenagers who 'd clambered up the side of one of the big waste bins and were lifting stuff around inside . |
| 4 | When he drew down the top of the blanket Laura gave a cry , staggering where she stood . |
| 5 | I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead . |
| 6 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |
| 7 | He had , in a way , shown her the path , as Hansel did when he put down the pebbles which guided his sister and himself back home . |
| 8 | But when he put down the phone , he was wearing what Celia called his crisis face . |
| 9 | When he put down the phone , he said , " Really , sir , you make me feel that I 'm behaving like a suspect . " |
| 10 | When he put down the papers at last he looked abstracted . |