Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [pron] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was growing dark as I walked down the pier alone , his jacket draped over my shoulders , and I wondered if I should really look for Wilde at all . |
| 2 | They followed the car as it tore down the M4 , finally reaching Bristol . |
| 3 | He is starting his reply as I put down the receiver . |
| 4 | In the opening sequence he is seen hanging on to the top of a jeep as it careers down the rock of Gibraltar . |
| 5 | He was watching through the door-space as he backed down the hallway . |
| 6 | She had watched from the window as they walked down the jetty , anxious as a mother sending her children off on their first day at school . |
| 7 | The landlord , partially blinded as he turned from sunlight into gloom , was aware only of a shadow ; a stirring of air ; a faint dull patter mixing into the rowdy mob-noise , and something brushing featherlight against his thigh as he waddled down the passage . |
| 8 | So the arrival at the Grand Quay of that famous pirate ship the ‘ Black Pig ’ caused no excitement , and Captain Pugwash , the Mate , Barnabas , Willy and Tom the cabin boy attracted little attention as they stepped down the gangplank and set off to view the sights of the town . |
| 9 | She had caught his eye as she came down the aisle . |
| 10 | Sara shivered a little in her thin American suit as she walked down the gangway and got into the bus which was to take her and the other passengers to the arrival building . |
| 11 | As a church architect , I have visited , I believe , all the cathedrals in Europe — Chartres , Burgos , Canterbury , Cologne , Saragossa , Milano , Ely , Zagreb , Gozo , Rheims — ’ I continued to name them for some while as we tramped down the nave . |
| 12 | He opened the throttle as he turned left into Station Road The burble of the exhaust turned to a bellow as he raced down the long gentle slope towards Newtown . |
| 13 | ‘ Ah , ’ Karl shook his head as he looked down the avenue . |
| 14 | The man stripping off his helmet as he strode down the room was tall and broad-shouldered , and moved with the leashed power of the hunter . |
| 15 | If the cuddly Lord Spencer , for whom the nation held its breath as he walked down the aisle of St Paul 's Cathedral to give away his daughter Diana , will be sorely missed , it is far from clear whether the departure of his widow from Althorp will be seen as a loss . |
| 16 | The speaker was a tall , long-legged blonde , her wide-set brown eyes focused solely on Dane as he sped down the slope . |
| 17 | ‘ Thought I raised a wench with a bit o' sense , ’ sniffed the old man as he trundled down the garden path with his wheelbarrow full of tools . |
| 18 | He released her hands , and pinned her instead with one hard leg as he drew down the straps of her swimsuit , uncovering her full high breasts to his view . |
| 19 | listen to your language helper as he reads down the whole of list A |
| 20 | Or was it the heavy rain slapping against the windows , the wind 's eerie message as it whistled down the chimney and flickered at the flames that had begun to lick about the new-laid logs ? |
| 21 | An unspoken sympathy bound them in comfortable silence as they padded down the garden . |
| 22 | After being stranded on 99 for 25 minutes , he finally lost both patience and nerve and became the fourth player in the match to be dismissed in sight of a century as he charged down the pitch . |
| 23 | A tiny patch of blue punctured the dark blanket of sky , and the sun peeped out from a corner of the horizon as they headed down the beach , not stopping until they reached a small rocky promontory shaded by bushy casuarinas . |
| 24 | A shot of a police station was used to accompany a voice-over commentary that " some CID men take bribes " ; for two and a half seconds , the officer could be identified in the film as he walked down the station steps . |
| 25 | A SCHOOLBOY was robbed of his mountain bike as he pedalled down the hard shoulder of a motorway to get help after his dad 's car broke down . |
| 26 | As a result , the Marines experienced no resistance as they jogged down the hurriedly lashed gangplanks , and spread out across the docks . |
| 27 | If the organ music swells this Christmas as we run down the lanes of childhood in search of sentiment or the values of yesterday , and if the early darkness on Christmas evening finds us replete and empty at the same time , maybe its because we have left the Josephs of this world alone in their silent day and all too silent night . |
| 28 | She recalled , with a lump in her throat , the slow tears gathering , glistening in the light of the lantern as they slid down the furrows in his cheeks . |
| 29 | His voice was the merest whisper as he stared down the landing towards a particular door , his mind imagining the two people behind it ; two people he resented beyond words . |
| 30 | This manifested itself quite dramatically on a few occasions when , the holding screws having sheared , the rail curled up behind the tank as it moved down the slope . |