Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not get up and come towards him as he got out , but waited until he had crossed the grass to sit down beside her on the wooden seat . |
| 2 | ‘ What 's wrong , Laura ? ’ he asked , coming to sit down beside her on the black leather sofa . |
| 3 | Fergus had motioned him to sit down with him behind the hide , and to keep quiet . |
| 4 | You see , we 'd got such confidence that she told me that when he died , she said , ‘ He died in his bed here ’ , that we were in , you see ; and she said , ‘ I then closed his eyes and I laid down with him till the morning so that nobody should be disturbed . ’ |
| 5 | There 's a little row that goes down beside it round the back , I never knew there was . |
| 6 | Crowds of spectators were thronging the sides of the narrow road which led down from it into the village and , after Vitor had hurriedly found a parking place , they joined them . |
| 7 | There were any number of laden country folk in this concourse , and within the hour there would be still more crowding down upon them from the town , after the market . |
| 8 | The mutilated text of the passage of Polybius has come down to us in the Excerpta de sententiis and the keyword " he wept " , has to be supplied from Diodorus ( 32.24 ) with the support of Appian , Punica 132 : they are known to have used Polybius directly or indirectly . |
| 9 | Looking down below them from the top , they saw that a small crater with the remains of a dried-up lake in it was emitting sulphurous vapours from several points . |
| 10 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 11 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 12 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 13 | You wo n't find the answer written down for you in the bowl of a compass — I can tell you that . |
| 14 | ‘ Funny little faces peering down at me through the branches overhead . |
| 15 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
| 16 | What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ? |
| 17 | They found him under the yew tree and after a rather stormy scene , during which Bigwig grew rough and impatient , he was bullied rather than persuaded into going down with them into the great burrow . |
| 18 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 19 | A square of amber light shone down on them from the open hatch . |
| 20 | The sun shone down on her through the glass , and added to the headache that was gathering behind her eyes . |
| 21 | The great , distinguished people of the world do not know that these beggars can in the pride of their souls , look down on them as the unfortunate ones , who are left on the shore for their worldly uses , but whose life ever misses the touch of the lover 's arms . ’ |
| 22 | look down on you in the middle class ! |
| 23 | Singly and in groups , these aristocratic figures look down on us from the walls of the Crousel-Robelin-Bama gallery , proud survivors of a vanishing world . |
| 24 | International art , culture and politics , as immortalised by Pino Settanni , look down on us from the walls of the Hadrian Thomas gallery until 28 June . |
| 25 | The Lord Chancellor , travelling down with us in the train , took Mollie a bet of 5 to 5s. that he would not stand . |
| 26 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 27 | He looked up , expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps . |
| 28 | I have got in my diary that I 'm coming down to you on the twenty third of December ? |
| 29 | ‘ A Scotch , please — plenty of soda , ’ said Greg , and settled down with it into the sofa . |
| 30 | The sun seared down on us through the thin air , and when we slowed and turned our own cloud of dust enveloped us . |