Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] down [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , when he gestured to me to sit down on the mats which covered the floor , I could not but observe two fairly fresh ( tuskless ) skulls above the door by which we had entered . |
| 2 | I wandered down to the kitchens where Wolsey 's chefs were busy creating subtleties , strange confectionery creations : towers and castles of sugar ready to launch their assault on valiant teeth . |
| 3 | The figures that I quoted were given in a written answer to a question that I put down about the cutbacks in regional preferential assistance . |
| 4 | I climbed down through the sails , then went below to tie up my wound . |
| 5 | Ben was saying the other day that soon they would drop out as I walked down to the shops ! ’ |
| 6 | The festivities started with a parade through the town led by the Houlton Silver Band and as I looked down from the windows of our bed-sitter I could see them all gathering in the street below . |
| 7 | I lay down in the woods and went to sleep . |
| 8 | ‘ And I 'm frightened that if I go down to the cellars I might die . ’ |
| 9 | When I go down on the table-cloths , the water runs over my hand . |
| 10 | which I shall not attempt to conceal from you , but before I come down to the details let me say that Darwinism occupies such a central position in evolutionary biology — in biology as a whole , not just in evolutionary biology but in the whole of biology — that any important , new idea in biology has to be , to some extent , judged by its compatibility with , or its contradictions of , the Darwinian position . |
| 11 | I sat down on the cases of beer and Patterson perched on the edge of an armchair . |
| 12 | She bore down on the hybrids and , with her claws , she killed them almost before they realized . |
| 13 | At Christmas they always played ‘ You came down from the stars ’ and at Easter they usually played a Pastorale , and what with the roar of the traffic and the crowds of chattering shoppers or tourists it was practically impossible to distinguish the tune except in short bursts . |
| 14 | Our beamy Bénéteau made a lot of noise as she slammed down into the troughs before climbing the next steep wave . |
| 15 | Alexandra would find her by the fire in the drawing-room in the afternoons , the Pekinese guarding her against invisible dangers , then she came down in the mornings and needed letters written , wools held . |
| 16 | Do you go down to the baths every night ? |
| 17 | For a moment she stared down at the stains and the roses , and then she walked away . |
| 18 | She stared down at the papers in her hand , not wanting to look at him . |
| 19 | Opening her briefcase , she stared down at the contents . |
| 20 | Opening the lid , she stared down at the emeralds glinting up at her like cat 's eyes , her mother 's emeralds and her grandmother 's and many generations of Grenfell women before her . |
| 21 | ‘ Why did n't she go down with the others ? ’ |
| 22 | There were tears in her eyes as she looked down across the footlights to the man in the front row , on his feet now , applauding . |
| 23 | She looked down at the roses . |
| 24 | She looked down at the notes on the small side table , and then pulled off her wore framed pince-nez . |
| 25 | She looked down on the men 's masks and costumes , listening to their chatter , and stayed silent . |
| 26 | She looked down through the wards where the festive celebrations had momentarily stopped . |
| 27 | If you go down to the woods today , make sure it 's not the Forest Of Dean . |
| 28 | But if you go down to the woods today you wo n't get a big surprise , because as boars have a tendency to charge at people they 're being kept in by an electric fence . |
| 29 | If you go down to the woods today , prepare for a big surprise . |
| 30 | If you go down to the woods today |