Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went into the living room where she settled down at the dining table to mark compositions . |
| 2 | Fabia reached Ven 's suite and let herself in , walked across the sitting-room and into her bedroom where she sat down on the edge of the bed , and felt , for the moment , defeated . |
| 3 | She slammed the boot down , with a cry of ‘ God Almighty ! ’ and ran indoors , where she sat down at the kitchen table and beat her fists against the wood , with anger , with frustration , with a sudden , desperate concern for Nick . |
| 4 | But it made sense at least to stretch my cramped legs , so I strolled down to the edge of the lake and lit a cigarette . |
| 5 | ’ So I went down to the canal . |
| 6 | It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport . |
| 7 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 8 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 9 | They could not open the door , so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window . |
| 10 | It was fastened tightly on to the right horn , so it dangled down over the cheek and eye . |
| 11 | They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office … |
| 12 | I — think if I had some fresh air today I should feel much better , if I went down to the sea , perhaps . ’ |
| 13 | I feel I could play , but if I broke down during the game I would be letting down the team and myself . |
| 14 | I found that if I settled down to the tape and the life of Apricot Smith , I became quite comfortable . |
| 15 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 16 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 17 | And then you had yuppies , but nobody mixed , and the feeling , if you went down to the Turkish |
| 18 | I think in next weekend possibly er if we drove down on the Sunday evening |
| 19 | It would be seven and sixpence for the consultation if they went down to the surgery . |
| 20 | They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork . |
| 21 | But he , he was getting more money in Bailey 's so he ended up if he went down to the , the he would get two fifty still . |
| 22 | I waited while he jumped down into the clearing and disappeared . |
| 23 | The whole train stopped while he jumped down from the dome car and went to look at the laggard . |
| 24 | Walsh warned : ‘ James has been unstoppable this season since he trimmed down in the summer from 22 stone to a mere 18 . |
| 25 | Walsh warned : ‘ James has been unstoppable this season since he trimmed down in the summer from 22 stone to a mere 18 . |
| 26 | But before we went down into the |
| 27 | Before we went down to the kitchen Elinor patted all the Napoleana into place , violets and Redouté roses ; a picture of him riding his horse , Marengo , and that one of him feeling for his wallet ; matchstick models made by French prisoners of war and a tricolour flying at half-mast . |
| 28 | Before we sat down in the restaurant Jamila took me aside and kissed me on the mouth . |
| 29 | before they got down to the autographs . |
| 30 | His knee problems began three weeks ago , but came to a head on Wednesday when he was forced to pull out of a friendly for Juventus against Second Division side Spal , after he broke down during the warm-up . |