Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb past] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The man looked at Clinton indifferently and peered down into the vat . |
2 | After Janice had gone Shiona went back inside and sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of strong black coffee . |
3 | ‘ Ah , yes , ’ Farouk cut in and glanced down at the notepad in front of him . |
4 | A man came in and sat down in the seat opposite him . |
5 | They went in and sat down by the fire . |
6 | Their leader had quiet words with the cardinal , who smiled , clapped his hands , and a green baize-covered table and two chairs were brought in and set down in the middle of the hall . |
7 | He had his back to me , so I just sneaked in and hid down by the side of the dresser . |
8 | After a few moments she could stand it no longer , and with an effort she wrenched her gaze away and looked down at the carpet . |
9 | He covered his face with his hands , then took them away and looked down at the earth . |
10 | Someone kicked his washing-bag over and stared down at the spilled shirt sleeve , the maroon-edged handkerchief . |
11 | Julius strolled over and looked down at the quietly flowing water . |
12 | The burly bruiser got up , carried his toddy over and sat down opposite the bearded man , who listened to him muttering , then gave him a silver coin . |
13 | At another point , he came over and sat down at the table with them . |
14 | He got up as Leo walked across the lawn outside and smiled down at the trio in the swing-seat . |
15 | Lancaster breathed out slowly and looked down at the table when he realised what he had said . |
16 | Carefully he swung the grill aside and climbed down into the darkened corridor . |
17 | This was because , when her long beautiful legs were high in the air , her yellow garter flew off and fell down to the men below . |
18 | Directed by Alston , the screaming ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ turned off and shot down through the narrow side streets of the Arab quarter . |
19 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
20 | Owen and Georgiades went a little way off and squatted down beneath the trees to wait . |
21 | He turned the fire off and sat down on the settee , looking at the woman all the while . |
22 | I managed to get my seat belt off and ducked down in the seat to get out of range of the gunshots . ’ |
23 | One January morning , the captain got up early and walked down to the beach . |
24 | He stood up and walked down to the deep end as he spoke , then he dived in , surfacing at least halfway down the pool , then covering several more lengths in a leisurely crawl . |
25 | I I tripped up and fell down at the side . |
26 | She got up and went down to the kitchen to start getting their dinner . |
27 | On the way to Whitby and the first hostel , we turned off at Skinningrove , a steel-producing town that looked exactly like a slice of Newcastle 's backstreets scooped up and set down on the rugged coastline . |
28 | The desert was an unforgiving place , but their training had equipped them to cope , when at any time they could have taken the easy way out and walked down to the coast road to surrender . |
29 | I was blown to one side off the macadam , then dragged back and crashed down on the other . |
30 | He unpacked and put everything away immediately and strolled down to the canal . |