Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] down the " in BNC.

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1 Hair , streaked with the colours of the sun , tumbled down her back and over her shoulders and swung in waves as she shimmied down the catwalk .
2 He tossed her shorts away , then sat up and looked at her with desire-darkened eyes as he tugged down the zip on his own shorts and flung them away .
3 According to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee , the Bank of England failed to discharge its supervisory duties before it shut down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International in July , 1991 .
4 It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent .
5 Amid the clatter of cutlery and crockery , my contact revealed how Diana had seriously considered calling off the wedding two days before she walked down the aisle at St Paul 's Cathedral .
6 More effective was the rush by two of the protection squad firing their tommies as they ran down the ship 's steep gangplank .
7 The pictures , Britta realized , were the views seen by the Counsellors as they scrambled down the slope towards the wrecked craft .
8 There was no roof and the rain that had fallen in the night left dark stripes where it trickled down the greasy surface of the cows ' rumps .
9 Eventually I called the police and they broke down the door .
10 Small children scrambled for the scattered coins before they washed down the drains .
11 Over the wall , Frear had come in and was talking to one of the waiters as he wiped down the outside tables .
12 ‘ It 's none of my business , ’ she replied , gripping the solid wood grab-rails as she went down the five steps with their non-slip treads .
13 She watched him through her fingers as he went down the garden and bent over the hole .
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