Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] down the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 2 | I looked down the other scores and confirmed that Jack was in about twentieth place , so he would need a very special round today to force his way back among the leaders . |
| 3 | She crashed down the four steps , ending up in a heap on the landing . |
| 4 | As she walked to the weighing room , she gulped down the three pills . |
| 5 | As she walked down the crazy-pavement paths to the lily pond , Constance was struck by the blackbirds hopping around in the sun . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Dry-mouthed , she smoothed down the shimmering folds of her robe with fingers that shook slightly . |
| 8 | As we glissaded down the final snows to the hut , the summit of Mt Blanc was burnished by the setting sun and the Flammes de Pierre were flickering , true to their name . |
| 9 | Our trucks had open sides and Marius , Vermulen and I clung to each other , faces buried in our hoods , as we churned down the slushy autoroutes , the speed of the trucks sending icy , sawing winds through us at seventy kilometres per hour . |
| 10 | We trotted down the long flights of stairs and I followed her out through the front door . |
| 11 | And I think the way we did it we marked down the three shops we wanted to do and make sure you do those three shops . |
| 12 | look at this traffic coming in now I think the way we did it , we marked down the three shops we wanted to do |
| 13 | They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea . |
| 14 | But Mr Riley argued that the parking on Hollyhurst Road was not a hazard to pedestrians who had to cross between parked cars instead they slowed down the speeding cars . |
| 15 | Like a camera my restless mind followed the rabid mongrels of Puno as they roamed down the narrow streets , through the tight patchwork of market stalls , over the rubble-lined railway track , to fight at last over a pair of cow 's horns I had seen earlier topping a pile of refuse . |
| 16 | As he rode down the narrow goat-trails of the Khyber Pass , Battuta would have known that the Delhi Sultanate was violent frontier country , constantly in a state of war with the pagan Mongols to the north and the infidel Hindus to the south . |
| 17 | Over the wall , Frear had come in and was talking to one of the waiters as he wiped down the outside tables . |
| 18 | He played down the adverse conditions that had led to low lambing rates by pointing to the limit of 205,000 tonnes that could be sent to Europe under the voluntary restraint agreement . |
| 19 | After an impressive first year as a factory rider , Zeelenberg was in big demand but he turned down the lucrative offers without a moment 's hesitation . |
| 20 | He hunted down the Breton forces , executing all those who fell into his hands and organizing retaliatory raids on Geoffrey 's estates . |
| 21 | Every morning he went down the three flights of stairs the mail was there to be shuffled and dealt . |