Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [vb past] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one of my sons went down into the village to see if the army had left , He came back to tell us that they had destroyed everything , that they had taken all the maize , all the cows and had burnt every house in sight . |
| 2 | and my knickers fell down in the snow . |
| 3 | Landing feet first , I broke only partway through the crust , so that nothing but my boots plunged down into the softer material beneath . |
| 4 | Their views trickled down through the student nurses ' years and were apt to be accepted as gospel , since that saved the students the bother of forming opinions for themselves , and also it was not often a student in her first couple of years , if not longer , had the opportunity to form any opinion on our men . |
| 5 | The ponies walked slowly because their feet went down into the snow . |
| 6 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 7 | Her passengers hurried down into the empty hold , where the roof of the Alice was splitting into two . |
| 8 | At this , her hands crashed down on the keys and she jerked forward , saying , ‘ Do n't do that , Daddy , please . ’ |
| 9 | His eyes flickered down to the gondola . |
| 10 | his feet came down to the knees on it |
| 11 | He bared her breasts ; put his tongue to them as his hands went down to the belt of her skirt , to find that she 'd changed for the trip , and was wearing jeans . |
| 12 | She groaned aloud in pleasure when his kisses continued down to the swell of her bosom . |
| 13 | This may sound harsh , but it seems to me that when we lost our empire our eyes came down from the horizon and looked at our feet . |
| 14 | Our immediate problems were sorting out our living arrangements , for although it had been agreed with Tandri that we would occupy the ship 's only excuse for a cabin we now found our things moved down into the hold . |
| 15 | Bats developed " send/receive " switching technology long long ago , probably millions of years before our ancestors came down from the trees . |