Example sentences of "[subord] she [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 | 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 |
| 5 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 6 | She went over to it , her mouth dry , her pulses racing , and when she looked down at the cherubic child with bright golden hair she had to grip the arms for support . |
| 7 | When she looked down into the channel with Gazzer and saw Simon , water swilling round his waist , she could hardly believe that she was responsible . |
| 8 | When she came down to the drawing room , Dada was looking particularly small , too . |
| 9 | Nurse Jones was a busy woman and he valued the minutes he had with her over a cup of tea when she came down from the bedroom . |
| 10 | When she went down to the kitchen eight mugs on the draining-board said that someone had washed up ; she was the last . |
| 11 | When she went down to the sitting-room to pour tea for her mother , the latter was in one of her most waspish moods . |
| 12 | Once or twice when she crept down to the turn in the stairs to see if it was safe to go and get something to eat , she was scared back by the murmur of unfamiliar voices , and saw three or four bicycles parked in the hall , leaning together with their pedals tangled in each others ' spokes , forming an intricate barrier to outside . |
| 13 | Marie Wilkes had to make that decision when she broke down on the M50 in the Summer of 1988 . |
| 14 | And similarly , most of the CTC and especially the , were utterly and outspokenly delighted when she stood down from the committee on moving to PLACE . |
| 15 | She trailed a hand along an imaginary banister , sweeping the other behind where the skirts of a ball-gown would have trailed and was so tangibly created that when she sat down on the sofa Delia Sutherland moved to make room for the folds of that gown . |
| 16 | When she sat down at the table her mother said , ‘ Well , you can help yourself , I 've got my hands full here . ’ |
| 17 | The memory of the outcome brought a smile to her face on that Saturday morning as she walked down towards the crouching figure of Aggie . |
| 18 | It was so clear in his mind , he could hear his nan 's voice , even smell that strangely comforting smell of scorched linen as she pressed down on the iron , and yet he had understood little of their conversation at the time , had n't understood , in fact , until years later . |
| 19 | Our beamy Bénéteau made a lot of noise as she slammed down into the troughs before climbing the next steep wave . |
| 20 | Carrie leaned back in her chair and rubbed the tips of her fingers across her forehead as she stared down at the mass of papers on the kitchen table . |
| 21 | Still , she reflected soberly as she stared down at the water , being on the boat had at least served to clarify her thoughts in one direction . |
| 22 | I thought I was falling in love with him ! she told herself as she went down to the dining-room . |
| 23 | Dawn was just breaking as she went down to the burn to fetch water . |
| 24 | There was a lump in her throat as she gazed down on the gaunt features . |
| 25 | Her tattered shirt and ancient denims in no way detracted from her tall decorum as she gazed down upon the squat clerical figure . |
| 26 | She 'd removed her ripped stockings earlier and now , as she looked down at the patchwork of scratches and grazes , she was relieved that there had n't been more damage . |
| 27 | She nodded , as she looked down at the tiny poodle . |
| 28 | There were tears in her eyes as she looked down across the footlights to the man in the front row , on his feet now , applauding . |
| 29 | As she looked down from the stand , the horses for the third race , a handicap over six furlongs , were filing out on to the racecourse . |
| 30 | ‘ Mummy will be cross , ’ she murmured , wrinkling her nose as she peered down at the long tear . |