Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] down [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 2 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 3 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 4 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 5 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 6 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 7 | Shortly after a private reading with ‘ Bartholomew ’ in Taos , New Mexico , I drove down to the nearby Rio Grande . |
| 8 | One Friday evening , I drove down to the lovely old house , Ramster , near Chiddingfold , where artist Mr Paul Gunn and his charming wife Miranda had invited friends to the first night of an exhibition of Paul Gunn 's most recent landscapes , and to drinks and supper . |
| 9 | Below , I look down on the differing surfaces , the differing states of ripeness from light green through to gold . |
| 10 | At the top of the dry valley I scramble down to the green path , following the old hedge of thorns and elders , pointing the way , beckoning me onwards as I descend the gently curving path down the rolling hillside . |
| 11 | I plonked down on the hard wooden sofa and began musing : was he telling the truth ? |
| 12 | As I settled down in the straw-filled barn that I had left a few moments ago in search of food , I looked around at the now sleeping Frenchman , stretched out in the straw . |
| 13 | I stared down at the white face of the ratman . |
| 14 | Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to . |
| 15 | Outside on the terrace , at the point from where Francis used to dive , and made the dive that killed him , I looked down into the moon-flecked pool . |
| 16 | I looked down at the perfect rosebud lips , the determined chin and the tiny clenched fists of my cub . |
| 17 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 18 | I looked down at the viscid mess and up to meet his dry smile . |
| 19 | I looked down at the four orange cards on the counter , lining them up evenly . |
| 20 | I looked down at the glistening pavements . |
| 21 | I looked down at the pretty patterns that streets do n't know they make . |
| 22 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 23 | I lay down on the Pennine moors |
| 24 | They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office … |
| 25 | I went down from the upper grandstand as fast as I could , which was far too slowly because everyone else was doing the same thing . |
| 26 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 27 | I sat down at the little table , as well I might . |
| 28 | I sat down on the only patch of turf |
| 29 | I sat down on the wooden bed . |
| 30 | I sat down with the Financial Times and tried to count how many people were actually smoking underneath no-smoking signs . |