StringNet search result

Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I tried to sit down on the bed and wait .
2	Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me .
3	I tried to climb down to the nest once .
4	It would always be the partner with a wife and kids who got shot down in the line of duty , giving his bachelor buddy the chance poignantly to break the news to his loved ones .
5	I think that it was when he got turned down for the job of a bus conductor .
6	After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone .
7	The ground trembled and over-head many bikes , toy tractors , etc. strung above the ceiling for display purposes , came crashing down upon the team .
8	And you could bet that the moment he 'd left they 'd sat down in the shade .
9	A group of shaven-headed yobbos , with tattooed cheeks and nationalistic leanings , observed this from the upper deck and came swarming down from the bus .
10	Alexei seemed to look down at the folder in his hand .
11	She 'd stayed down in the lane with a sullen look on her face .
12	They sat around one end of the work table , which now seemed vast and empty , and Alina Peterson explained how she 'd walked down to the village to look around and , where it seemed appropriate , to introduce herself .
13	On Nathan 's last morning they 'd driven down to the supermarket together .
14	As the 22 men in the three boats had just taken their respective stations , a young girl came running down from the village to the shore in breathless haste .
15	The floorboards had n't snapped , as I 'd originally thought : they 'd gone down into the dock with Harry .
16	‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened .
17	She 'd gone down to the seashore with the dogs and there he 'd been , following her .
18	and he was let out and first , within twenty four hours he 'd gone down to the South Coast and killed his mother and his girl friend
19	The huge woman came billowing down to the entrance hall , dressed in bright orange , which went uncomfortably with her recently revivified red hair .
20	The vehicle shot forward , and as it did so the first rocks from above came hurtling down onto the track just behind us .
21	Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose .
22	Below that the car risked bogging down in the mud or grounding on an obstacle , above it the tyres might lose adhesion on the continual twists and turns or cliff-like descents , or one of the vicious pot-holes or rock outcrops rupture the suspension or pierce the sump .
23	The family Rover also became bogged down on the beach road and his brother Anwar suffered a heart attack after spending a night on the open beach .
24	Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather .
25	Last autumn Mr Alton threatened to stand down after the party 's Harrogate conference endorsed a strong pro-abortion line .
26	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 .
27	He ordered the captain to display the royal standard on the stem , just in case the French believed they were pirates , as the ‘ Saint Andrew ’ began to run down alongside the galley .
28	He began to climb down into the ditch , hitting at the grass with his pick-handle .
29	The class began to copy down from the blackboard .
30	The minute we got settled down in the bottom of our Kalamachka , rocking as if we were inside a boat and ‘ talking about Baghdad ’ , we felt transported to another country .