Example sentences of "[pron] as [pron] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely . |
| 2 | The study doors are those that face one as one comes down the great staircase . |
| 3 | Although what that could possibly be , I have no idea , Melissa thought to herself as she put down the phone . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've just had a quick word with Carole Meadows , ’ Ross told her as he put down the phone . |
| 5 | She smiled at him as he put down the drinks . |
| 6 | Rickie was literally dancing in circles around me as I walked down the dock towards his sister , but then he paused in his frenetic progress to light one cigarette from the stump of another , and I wondered just what perverted fate decreed that such a boy should receive a legacy of six million dollars . |
| 7 | It was this image that accompanied me as I walked down the rue de Fleuve , stopping for a final coup d'oeil at the squat church crouching on its gravel ground . |
| 8 | After a while , I turned to watch them as they receded down the hillside — two lumbering animals , with bodies grossly disproportionate to their slender stick-like ankles . |
| 9 | But her black eyes had the same satanic glitter in them as she climbed down the ladder from the gallery . |