Example sentences of "[vb past] down and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally both sides got down and our men started swearing at the Germans , when all at once a brave German got on to his parapet and shouted ‘ We are very sorry about that ; we hope no one was hurt . |
| 2 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 3 | The horse came to a stop before the porch , and the old servant got down and lugged her portmanteau out of the boot . |
| 4 | They got down and looked at him . |
| 5 | Dickinson got down and held back the prickly branches while Killion blundered out , his lips triphammering away at the opening consonants of all the swear-words he knew . |
| 6 | Toby ran to the sobbing boy and took the flannel , and as he did so a naked razor blade fluttered down and tinkled on to the floor . |
| 7 | I had spent four hours catching nothing and he simply swooped down and lifted a trout of at least 2lb from under my nose . |
| 8 | Then , with the fluidity usually only displayed by cartoon characters , she swooped down and around her daughter ; her arms cradled each shoulder and her face slid down next to Maisie 's . |
| 9 | Then he swooped down and landed on a road near Varadero Beach , right in the middle of evening rush-hour traffic . |
| 10 | Don Mini gave a signal and in five seconds Swan swooped down and landed on the tree . |
| 11 | She swooped down and trailed her fingertips along the surface . |
| 12 | To her shock and horror his head swooped down and as his mouth claimed hers so impassionately a flash of hope surged in her heart like a spear of lightning out of a blackened sky . |
| 13 | We , we , we , we threw , we threw it out into the garden and these birds swooped down and they could n't take off ! |
| 14 | One advantage is that the students are not in competition with each other , as each student 's achievement is assessed against the criteria laid down and not against the best student . |
| 15 | Aims were defined , certain statutory regulations laid down and five officers elected for the first three-year term . |
| 16 | Colour matching is not a real problem , heraldry has distinct tinctures laid down and these are adhered to , although Mary has had the occasional viewer saying that the badge was never that colour ! |
| 17 | The answer , I think , involves a partial refutation of the interactionist position : crimes do share an intrinsic quality — they involve the knowing transgression of rules laid down and enforced by the state . |
| 18 | It is perfectly conceivable that we can make some general statements about the conditions that influence our self-indulgence or self-restraint in relation to rules laid down and enforced by the state , particularly when the nature of those rules and the way they are enforced are included for consideration . |
| 19 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 20 | Looking back , it seems a wonderful enough thing that I who am this , and she who is that , commencing so far away a life that , after such sufferings borne together and apart , ended so tranquilly there in a world so stable — that she and I should have passed through so much , good chance and evil chance , sad hours and joyful , all lived down and swept away into the little heap of dust that is a life . |
| 21 | Wednesday must have wished he had , the way Atkinson chested down and volleyed home a 20th-minute clearance , then spun brilliantly on a Neal Cox through ball to score a second after 67 . |
| 22 | She touched him , her hands flat against his chest , tangling in the dark , dark hair , following its trail that led down and down , stroking the aroused maleness that would be a part of her so very , very soon . |
| 23 | I hauled back the wheel and the plane mushed down and hit the water . |
| 24 | The Campbell 's all-black window swished down and evil Jim stuck his head out . |
| 25 | And then it plunged down and down and down . |
| 26 | She knelt down and rolled them up Bella 's legs and over her swollen knees . |
| 27 | He knelt down and got his fingers into a crack in the floorboards . |
| 28 | He would be deeply moved and encouraged , in his dreams , even by the smallest and most ordinary bud ; his nostrils got raw and caked with fine dirt as he knelt down and sniffed and sniffed to try and catch the first smell of green life . |
| 29 | To the alarm of his companions , he stopped , knelt down and said to them , ‘ Let us take time to pray to the Lord . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I still could n't see anything , of course , but I knelt down and groped about with my hands . |