Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] down [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
2 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
3 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
4 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
5 | The weight of the shot drew it down through the grating and out of his sight like a skittering lizard . |
6 | Yes , could you say that just a little louder , I 'm not sure that they caught it down in the lower basement . |
7 | He plopped himself down on the nearest chair . |
8 | He threw himself down on the huge old bed and stared at the sloping timber ceiling . |
9 | Libby would not watch ; she hated the high-pitched squealing as the rabbits panicked , hearing a stick thump or a shot ring out , seeing the warm fur parting in the breeze as someone threw it down beside the other corpses . |
10 | Sometimes on their fronts , sometimes on their backs , sometimes half standing , they threw themselves down to the damp coils below . |
11 | He reached towards her with his strong hands and pressed them down on the fine-boned structure of her shoulders , massaging with rhythmic , kneading movements . |
12 | She swung herself down from the back door and went round to the front steps of the kiosk . |
13 | I threw some of the water from the bowl over my own face and drank the rest for I was thirsty , then followed him down to the Great Hall . |
14 | We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House . |
15 | She held the feeling in tight , she squashed it down under the heavy pasteboard covers of the recipe book . |
16 | Felicity flung herself down on the sacrificial stone , opening wide her legs , arching her back , so that her pudendum rose in the air like some nocturnal flower . |
17 | She dumped herself down on the low stone wall that skirted the churchyard . |
18 | He grunted by way of greeting as the fat widow dumped herself down on the other chair , but did not raise his eyes from his reading . |
19 | A tallish hummock loomed , and he pulled her down into the wet grass behind it . |
20 | At first she could n't find him anywhere but finally she tracked him down to the big barn . |
21 | Little Chef tracked her down in the pink dusk at the bottom of the garden , with her arms round an apple tree , sobbing her heart out . |
22 | A bell tolled , the sign for Compline , and Lady Amelia led him down through the darkened cloister out across the grass to the church . |
23 | He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station . |
24 | The steward took them down beyond the Great Hall into a vast , stone-flagged kitchen . |
25 | Their path took them down beyond the Technical College and the School of Art building , where Buddie and two of his sisters posed as living models for the students . |
26 | When they boarded the glittering red , gold and green floating restaurant , the maître d ’ took them down to the fresh fish display in the base . |
27 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
28 | She was hit and caught fire while going in to attack at low level and her pilot Don MacIntyre brought her down on the frozen surface of nearby Lake Hocklingen . |
29 | They took it down to the burning gha where two rivers meet in a rolling pool of green and white , and where at night the restless spirits of the dead wall to the roar of the crashing waters . |
30 | She made it down into the long drawing-room with a sort of grim look on her face that Alain noted with a frown . |