Example sentences of "[vb past] down [prep] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The spider came down on a thread in front of me while I was driving . |
| 2 | He looked across , smiled , winked at her , and said ‘ Hi there … er = ’ He glanced down at a sheet in front of him . |
| 3 | In the end , we went down to a chum in the country . ’ |
| 4 | After I did the course for two weeks I went down to a place in Ashford and I was in Ashford for twelve weeks , came back to Chelmsford , did another two weeks and then I was released as what 's known as probationer constable , a probationer constable . |
| 5 | An RAF Hercules transport plane is trying to rescue thirty Russian sailors whose ship went down in a gale in the middle of the South Atlantic . |
| 6 | An RAF Hercules transport plane is trying to rescue thirty Russian sailors whose ship went down in a gale in the middle of the South Atlantic . |
| 7 | Effectively , it boiled down to a continuation in a certain sense of the original situation , except that now the primal father exercised his authority not in the social group , but within the ego — he became a psychological agency instead of being a physical reality . |
| 8 | A body did n't change if it had been blasted with an automatic weapon in a robbery on Lenox Square or gunned down on a sidewalk in Athens . |
| 9 | The canteen at TV London was largely deserted at half past ten the next morning when Dexter and Blanche sat down at a table in the corner of the self-service section . |
| 10 | Miss Jarman sat down with a thump in the matching wing chair on the other side of the fireplace . |
| 11 | I sat down on a rock in the golden air and stared at the vast expanse of glassy blue and listened to the sucking and lapping . |
| 12 | She sat down on a chair in the hall beside the telephone . |
| 13 | Half an hour later I stopped the car , got out , sat down on a bank in an empty green world and admitted to myself that I was lost . |
| 14 | He went back into the church , sat down in a chair in front of a statue of the Virgin . |