Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled up at the pumps and the attendant , a young black wearing green coveralls and cap bearing the petrol company 's logo , approached and leaned down to the open window . |
| 2 | As the survivors are air-lifted to safety by helicopter , the badly wounded Elias is seen being pursued and shot down by the North Vietnamese , his outstretched arms at the moment of death consciously evoking the Crucifixion . |
| 3 | With the slaughter of the king , the English turned and ran , pursued and hunted down by the knights . |
| 4 | Fat Mrs Beatty entered and sat down in a corner beyond the screen . |
| 5 | He stopped and stared down at the floor . |
| 6 | When she got to the large graph that shows the state of the church-roof appeal , she stopped and looked down at the waiting crowds as if she was a victorious politician looking down on her compliant voters . |
| 7 | Francis stopped and peered down at the complex of buildings . |
| 8 | So at baptism , the new Christian would be immersed and go down into the river or the immersion font in Burmese skirt and coat , and on emerging from the water be clothed with the three garments of a Burmese monk , only white in colour instead of saffron , this signing acceptance as a mature member of the religious community and the cleansing from sin . |
| 9 | He 'd try to sneak us into the zoo without paying and we 'd get caught and taken down to the Police Station . |
| 10 | The threshing floors lay bare , pale , trodden and packed down in a circle around the post where the oxen had circled . |
| 11 | I was rescued and brought down to the ground . |
| 12 | White 's body was found stabbed and weighted down in a lake near Cirencester in 1989 . |
| 13 | Then , as Creggan abruptly turned and went down into the silence and gloom of his shelter , where no other eagle could see him and he could be alone with his thoughts , Kraal muttered after him , ‘ Golden eagle ! |
| 14 | Corbett bathed in the guest-house 's one and only tub before dressing and going down to the buttery for ale and a bowl of bread and fish boiled in milk . |
| 15 | There was a swift flow of air through the room , and whatever it was moved and sat down on the chair . |
| 16 | Alison came and sat down at the table with Franca . |
| 17 | Jimmy gulped and sat down on a chair beside the bed almost as if he did n't trust his legs to support him . |
| 18 | Pour in the stock , bring to the boil , then cover and turn down to a gentle simmer for about 1 hour and cook until tender , stirring occasionally . |
| 19 | At another whistle the Friar stopped and sat down on the stump of a tree . |
| 20 | The five ancestors are generally regarded as the sole survivors of the Shaolin temple after it was sacked and burned down by the Ching emperor 's army . |
| 21 | The men were ordered to strip and lay down on the grass . |
| 22 | The girls , looking one to the other , darting hate , hardly three foot tall , arose and walked down to the front of the class . |
| 23 | about going to India with him as his wife he goes and lays down like a , a granite pillar |
| 24 | He frowned and stared down at the grain of the table . |
| 25 | She turned and looked down at the handbag , clutched tightly in her hand , and flung it far across the room . |
| 26 | Morthen made a sound like a wild animal , turned and ran down through the blackthorn . |
| 27 | I can hear them , the voices , I can feel the terror of flying up at fifty miles an hour and crashing my skull against that hard rock — CRASH ! — and my brains all spilling out in pieces and spraying round like sparks after a firework has exploded and floating down to the floor of the cave below … |
| 28 | I did as I was told and flopped down on a chair , but it gradually got worse and worse , and I felt as if I was going to be sick . |
| 29 | Some 70 pharmaceutical grade trace elements and the basic compound are melted together to ensure a complete mix before being solidified and ground down into the basic salt . |
| 30 | I sighed and sat down on the stairs . |