Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first clear memory is of sitting on the front of his horse as he galloped down a ploughed field , of the earth skittering and turning , and being safe in his arms . |
| 2 | Hair , streaked with the colours of the sun , tumbled down her back and over her shoulders and swung in waves as she shimmied down the catwalk . |
| 3 | He tossed her shorts away , then sat up and looked at her with desire-darkened eyes as he tugged down the zip on his own shorts and flung them away . |
| 4 | The swallows flitted round Marie as she ran down the bank . |
| 5 | It was growing dark as I walked down the pier alone , his jacket draped over my shoulders , and I wondered if I should really look for Wilde at all . |
| 6 | Meanwhile police are trying to find out who was driving the car when it travelled down the country lane to Stonebench . |
| 7 | They followed the car as it tore down the M4 , finally reaching Bristol . |
| 8 | He fought with the Eighth Army and was mentioned in dispatches when he shot down a German plane with a machine-gun he had captured from an Italian plane . |
| 9 | He is starting his reply as I put down the receiver . |
| 10 | In the opening sequence he is seen hanging on to the top of a jeep as it careers down the rock of Gibraltar . |
| 11 | Richard O'Flynn , a training partner of John Treacy 's with a personal best of 28:20 , made an early surge as we ran down an avenue of skyscraping cabbage palms . |
| 12 | He was watching through the door-space as he backed down the hallway . |
| 13 | A television play or four weeks away in repertory was OK , but I finally lost my agent when I turned down an interview for a job in June , ‘ because I 'll be picking the gooseberries ’ . |
| 14 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 15 | According to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee , the Bank of England failed to discharge its supervisory duties before it shut down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International in July , 1991 . |
| 16 | He left his office , nodded to Bourne as he walked down the hall , and called , ‘ I 'm going out . ’ |
| 17 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
| 18 | She had watched from the window as they walked down the jetty , anxious as a mother sending her children off on their first day at school . |
| 19 | Once introduced , always at the initiative of the Government , Criminal Justice Bills are rolling stones gathering accretions as they travel down the Westminster hillside towards their final destination on the statute book . |
| 20 | The landlord , partially blinded as he turned from sunlight into gloom , was aware only of a shadow ; a stirring of air ; a faint dull patter mixing into the rowdy mob-noise , and something brushing featherlight against his thigh as he waddled down the passage . |
| 21 | One of the worst forms of slavery today is practised by the developed countries when they keep down the prices of basic products by subsidizing and dumping products and so competing with those that are vital for the countries of the Third World2 . ’ |
| 22 | NURSE Kim Leach seemed every inch an angel when she swept down the aisle as the Daily Mirror 's Bride of the Year . |
| 23 | There was a quiet period while she put down the receiver and wrote her notes . |
| 24 | Amid the clatter of cutlery and crockery , my contact revealed how Diana had seriously considered calling off the wedding two days before she walked down the aisle at St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 25 | So the arrival at the Grand Quay of that famous pirate ship the ‘ Black Pig ’ caused no excitement , and Captain Pugwash , the Mate , Barnabas , Willy and Tom the cabin boy attracted little attention as they stepped down the gangplank and set off to view the sights of the town . |
| 26 | She had caught his eye as she came down the aisle . |
| 27 | More effective was the rush by two of the protection squad firing their tommies as they ran down the ship 's steep gangplank . |
| 28 | The pictures , Britta realized , were the views seen by the Counsellors as they scrambled down the slope towards the wrecked craft . |
| 29 | I am sharply aware of every move I make , each crack of sound as I put down a cup , each dull ring as I move a spoon , each splash of water , squeak of the tap , thud of my shoe on the floor . |
| 30 | He walked straight back round the top of the little dale until they came down the slope to the road , well out of sight of the cottage . |