Example sentences of "then [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Desperately , desperately ill ! ’ she said , over her shoulder , then swooped down to the dishwasher , picked up a handful of plates , and marched off towards a cupboard . |
| 2 | I soon cheered up watching the glorious butterflies going about their business in the hot climate and then cooling down amongst the fountains . |
| 3 | He paused for a while to compose himself then staggered down to the porter 's lodge . |
| 4 | Lower the slab in place , then tap down with the handle of a club hammer . |
| 5 | She picked a mixed posy of flowers and put them in the small basket she was carrying , and then wandered down through the orchard . |
| 6 | A stroll in the moonlight by the old St Joseph 's seminary and the lake , and then looking down on the lights of Wigan . |
| 7 | I thought the two rivers both rising on Plynlimmon and then flowing their separate ways like brother and sister then meeting down under the Severn Bridge — I thought that provided a very nice theme for this beautiful border country |
| 8 | Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms . |
| 9 | I went to change money , then strolled down to the small port to talk to the boat owners about getting to Amantani . |
| 10 | Her hands flew up in horror then slammed down on the steering wheel . |
| 11 | Blake apparently broke one of the cast-iron sections of the frame , creating a space through which he could crawl , and then dropped down to the ground below , a distance of 22 feet , which was broken by the roof of a covered passageway . |
| 12 | Carrington looked at Talbot and shook his head , then dropped down to the sea-bed in front of the nose cone . |
| 13 | So gi , they 'll probably go down to Munich and then drop down on the motorway from Munich |
| 14 | Karen pulled out of John 's arms then climbed down into the cabin . |
| 15 | At the same time , blink once or twice , change eye focus , look into the distance — perhaps out of the window — then look down to the floor . |
| 16 | Walk from the Malá Strana end of the bridge past the first six pairs of statues listed below , then look down over the edge to your right over Kampa Island . |
| 17 | I then bicycled down to the Schools — sat down in my place . |
| 18 | He reckoned he had enough time to see Maidstone , then get down to the pensione and change before making his way back up to the Vomero again . |
| 19 | coal , and then rake down to the bottom and that 's when you open the little door for the draught to go up and they cal they call them tortoise stove . |
| 20 | Decentralization from the inner parts of cities accelerated from about 1960 , affecting the largest places first and then spreading down through the urban hierarchy . |
| 21 | After a couple of minutes he gave up the attempt , left the tool box by the cottage wall and walked to the edge of the cliff then slithered down to the beach . |
| 22 | Whitlock noticed the holster affixed to the guard 's belt , then glanced down at the leashed Doberman sitting obediently beside him . |
| 23 | He said this quite casually , then stepped down from the pulpit and made his way to the centre of the altar once more . |
| 24 | She sat at the edge of the cockpit , curled her legs into the warm shelter of the jacket , then hunched down into the thick collar so that all I could see of her face was her enormous , moon-silvered and lemur-like eyes beneath the pale gleam of her short bright hair . |
| 25 | A top bunk was then pulled down from the ceiling , complete with ladder . |
| 26 | The child looked up at him , smiled at him , then settled down into the bed . |
| 27 | After a pub lunch we did a bit outside the car-park mortuary and then settled down with the telephone to record some attempts to buy a coffin , one of which resulted in agreement , which was the last thing we needed at the time , although it came in very handy later . |
| 28 | Ignoring her , he looked through a small pile of paperbacks on the bedside table then settled down with the latest Ken Follett . |
| 29 | On such a morning , I remember dressing in a freezing bedroom , then coming down to the kitchen with its brightly flaming coal fire , dad having been up much earlier to coax the sleeping embers to life . |
| 30 | We spent the whole morning climbing the steep , hard ice in the couloir 's depths , so were somewhat dismayed when two figures skiied up to the base of the couloir , raced up to and past us , virtually dispensing with runners and belays , and then abseiled down from the top of the hard climbing at one third height , passing us again . |