Example sentences of "room [conj] [vb past] down [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He went to the long table in the centre of the room and looked down at the detailed map spread out across its surface .
2 At nine o'clock he left his room and went down to the bar .
3 They went back to the drawing room and settled down into the sofa to talk horses .
4 We went into my room and sat down on the floor together , and dried each other 's tears ; then I began to laugh a bit , ruefully , because I suddenly imagined how we must look , a hulking great coloured man and a girl sitting snivelling in front of a gas-fire mopping up the tears with dozens of paper hankies .
5 She escaped to her own room and sat down on the bed , huddling in her damp raincoat and picking at the stitches of the band on her arm .
6 She followed him into the other room and sat down on the sofa to pour out while Penry put a match to the kindling in the stove .
7 . Daryl was utterly taken about , what in the wide world did Sally mean , she watched the girl go out of the room and sat down on the form completely bewildered .
8 He tossed the empty packet onto the overflowing bin in the corner of the room and sat down at the table .
9 Taking a deep breath , he walked slowly across the room and sat down in the easy chair directly facing his mother .
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