Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] down [prep] [art] [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 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 3 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 4 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
| 5 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 6 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 7 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 8 | The weight of the shot drew it down through the grating and out of his sight like a skittering lizard . |
| 9 | Yes , could you say that just a little louder , I 'm not sure that they caught it down in the lower basement . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House . |
| 14 | She held the feeling in tight , she squashed it down under the heavy pasteboard covers of the recipe book . |
| 15 | A tallish hummock loomed , and he pulled her down into the wet grass behind it . |
| 16 | At first she could n't find him anywhere but finally she tracked him down to the big barn . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Adding the screw-on cranes until the brush emerged from the chimney , I pulled it down amidst a great cloud of soot — but the brush must have come unscrewed half-way , and there it remained . |
| 19 | Gloria poured her a spoonful from each bottle every day and said that 's why she was tough as old boots , because she always swallowed it down like a good girl . |
| 20 | We finally tracked it down to a small covered trailer behind a parked car . |
| 21 | A bell tolled , the sign for Compline , and Lady Amelia led him down through the darkened cloister out across the grass to the church . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The steward took them down beyond the Great Hall into a vast , stone-flagged kitchen . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 27 | Asa took her down to a thousand , then five hundred feet , and the Yak , hungry for the kill , stayed on his tail . |
| 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 | She may , for example , lay it down for a few seconds while she opens the entrance to her hole . |
| 30 | Suddenly exasperated , Buddie raised his free hand and brought it down in a resounding slap on the boy 's buttocks . |