Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The double zip allows you to roll the centre flap up from the bottom , to be fastened at the top or rolled down from the top for quick access . |
| 2 | No decisions have yet been taken on which newspapers will be sold or closed down in the UK . |
| 3 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 4 | Flat roofs are laid with a slight slope so that rainwater can be collected by conventional gutters and led down to the drains . |
| 5 | LUKE PARKED HIS Chevrolet Celebrity on the fifth floor of the studio carpark and rode down in the elevator with two minor executives in tracksuits who were discussing the latest records broken by ‘ 'T IS He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ . |
| 6 | They broke through the upper windows and tumbled down in the middle of us . |
| 7 | Then she opened the bedroom door and crept down through the dark , silent house . |
| 8 | Her tracksuit and flying jacket dragged on the ground as she slid and bumped down into the blackness . |
| 9 | Small mesh stiff netting from the garden centre , suitably stretched and weighed down at the edges is another method . |
| 10 | So I just stood there while they shouted " Jolly hockey sticks , " across as her , and then Kevin started them off singing , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … , " ever so softly , to the tune of " Auld Lang Syne " till her bus came , and then they sang it at the tops of their voices as she staggered onto the bus and moved down to the back seat . |
| 11 | They gathered their possessions and moved down to the cold , deserted taproom . |
| 12 | The crowd parted and an English doctor stepped over the warning wire and knelt down beside the man . |
| 13 | He decided to listen to their conversation , and knelt down outside the tent , making a little hole with his knife in the heavy cotton so that he could see the two people inside . |
| 14 | Then he went quiet and knelt down by the redhead . |
| 15 | The trainer leaned over me and peered down at the leg . |
| 16 | Then I opened my fingers wide and peered down at the floor . |
| 17 | The Doctor snapped out of his reverie and peered down at the Cell , still clasped in Bernice 's grip . |
| 18 | Francis stopped and peered down at the complex of buildings . |
| 19 | The man looked at Clinton indifferently and peered down into the vat . |
| 20 | LOOSE ALICE , also known affectionately as Slack , shot out of the trap in a blur of speed and bore down on the man who was running in front of her squeezing a squeaky toy . |
| 21 | The little larvae soon emerge — they know which way to go ! — and bore down into the stem where they pupate and eventually emerge as adults . |
| 22 | Rex took a deep breath , sprang out from hiding and drew down upon the boy in the business suit . |
| 23 | She ran the bath , loading it with bubble-bath , and sank down into the water . |
| 24 | Merrill went over to the wide settee and sank down into the feather cushions . |
| 25 | Once inside the house , Hari lit the candle and sank down at the table , her eyes heavy with tiredness and unshed tears . |
| 26 | Caroline freed it carefuly , rose from the bed , and sank down in the chair beside it . |
| 27 | I turned away from the window and sank down upon the bed . |
| 28 | The security guard pushed Jack out of the way and bent down to the driver 's window as the Glory slowed down . |
| 29 | Bakhramov 's opinion that an extra-time shot by Geoff Hurst had hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced down over the goal-line prompted Swiss referee Gottfried Dienst to allow the goal which gave England a 3–2 lead . |
| 30 | He woke late on the Sunday morning after their first week , sent Ingrid back to her Gasthaus , and wandered down to the coffee shop where several of them came and ate a late breakfast . |