Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gently they lifted the bedraggled form as Bert came lumbering down from the 3 and 4 landing , with Gilbert Forbes behind him , and behind him the trembling form of Jessie , wringing her hands . |
| 2 | David sat looking down at the empty wine glass that he was turning round and round between his hands . |
| 3 | Oxfordshire and west Buckinghamshire beginning to calm down after the rush hour this evening . |
| 4 | From the dry-out farm , Tunney had moved down to the border , mooched around in cantinas for a while , then left the country two steps ahead of the sheriff of some Rio Grande jerkwater . |
| 5 | Instead , they drove south , down the western side of the estuary , to a pull-in at the end of a lane , whence Mossop and Heather had walked down to the river 's edge and taken the third photograph . |
| 6 | Hammond moved from the doorway , picking up the map Kim had set down on the table . |
| 7 | Pete 's gone down to the shop and got yourself a bottle whisky . |
| 8 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 9 | SCARBOROUGH hope to get down to the problem of tackling their much-maligned McCain Stadium pitch with the appointment of new ground consultants . |
| 10 | It was he whom Matthew had brought down in a flying tackle . |
| 11 | Theda had gone down to the housekeeper , tight-lipped and curt , to ask that these things be remedied forthwith . |
| 12 | She knew that Harry liked to doss down in the porch . |
| 13 | Earlier , scrum half Davy Emerson had touched down after a bout of pressure on the Queen 's line , and full-back Trevor McKeown kicked a simple penalty . |
| 14 | " Martha 's gone down with a fever , " she explained . |
| 15 | Exports to China have slipped down to the 1987 levels after an artificial high in 1988 caused by the coincidence of a number of major orders . |
| 16 | Danny has to go down on the floor , put his hands on hips and go , evening all ! |
| 17 | Mr Abello was the fourth-ranking person in the Medellin cartel and the most important suspect arrested since Colombia began cracking down on the cocaine barons nearly two months ago , the department said . |
| 18 | There is only , well there are sixteen hours that er that Norman 's put down for the total technical work supervision on the job , I would have thought that perhaps that might be quite tight , er you know bearing in mind that it 's maybe a job that requires a |
| 19 | Patrick lay looking down into the dell . |
| 20 | Emulating its action against Hirac Inc in the US , Sparc International , the evangelising supporters group for Sun Microsystems Inc 's RISC has come down like a ton of bricks on a small UK start-up trying to carve a living out of the Sparc-compatible space . |
| 21 | Last autumn Mr Alton threatened to stand down after the party 's Harrogate conference endorsed a strong pro-abortion line . |
| 22 | Gazzer lay face down on the bank and inched himself out over the edge . |
| 23 | Bob 's put down for the Wednesday and the Thursday off , so it 's the Tuesday and the Friday I 'm stuck on the second week |
| 24 | Oxford have dropped down into the bottom half of the table , after losing by 1-0 for the third match running . |
| 25 | I think Shel 's got down to the beginning again ! |
| 26 | SOONER than anyone expected , the mayoral contest in New York has shaken down into a re-run of the 1989 race between David Dinkins , now the incumbent , and Rudolph Giuliani , his Republican rival . |
| 27 | Her heart had taken wing as she and Mandy had walked down into the lodge . |
| 28 | One of the most important concerns the ending , which was to have been based on an Old Believer melody Mussorgsky had taken down from a friend . |
| 29 | Ranulf sat staring down at the ground . |
| 30 | He told them about Marylebone , the night at the hotel , the terms Zack had laid down for the rendezvous , and how he had just made the deadline . |