Example sentences of "and [verb] down [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calvin takes a look at Jerry , mumbles something inaudible and sits down heavily on the step with his back to all of us . |
| 2 | In any case , sparks were riding the breeze and touching down far across the river in hidden gardens and remote rickyards . |
| 3 | She hurried next door to get the spare one she always left with her neighbour , then let herself inside and sank down wearily on the bottom of the stairs . |
| 4 | He leapt up the steps , grabbed his valise and hastened down again to the truck . |
| 5 | She had her own meal early , around six , then watched some television on the set she had in her room , and came down later for a chat with the family when everyone was feeling relaxed . |
| 6 | It 's an interesting mixture of management and overhead-view arcade action , and let down slightly by the latter . |
| 7 | Probably the most historic and also the most photogenic is that of the counts of Kyburg , perched high above woodlands and looking down fiercely on the river Toss . |
| 8 | ‘ Come on you bastard , ’ she shouted and pressed down hard on the gas . |
| 9 | When we reached the road we stopped and looked down again at the little house . |
| 10 | She rose to her feet , and looked down again at the rolling hillside covered with fruit and vegetables , with grazing goats , sheep and chickens . |
| 11 | Leithen and I stopped at the top of the hill and looked down again into the little green valley . |
| 12 | Dunbar came picking his way between the debris and the fallen , and looked down calmly upon the son and successor of his old enemy . |
| 13 | Theodora wiped her hands on the damp grass and lay down again beneath the currant bushes . |
| 14 | Stefan , perhaps you would be good enough to arrange for them to be collected from my apartment in Vienna and brought down here for the wardrobe woman . ’ |
| 15 | This waistcoat had flap-pockets and reached down almost to the knees : it was fastened right up to the neck with horse-shoe buttons , leaving just enough space for the red-spotted muffler or wrapper to be seen underneath . |
| 16 | I have had in my mind recently the image of a great bridge , how the pillars rise up and sweep down again with an immense force and weight . |
| 17 | That break in Sicily with my friends , and sailing down here on the Kestrel , was the first holiday I 've taken in ages … ’ |
| 18 | well why did she come and live down here in the first place ? |
| 19 | It is indicative , too , when a mistle thrush changes his tune , forgets to repeat his challenging spring song and slips down self-consciously into the lower boughs of a larch to all but whisper a softer , lazier , persuasive serenade . |
| 20 | When he 'd finished , the attendant stuck the chamois leather in his belt with a flourish and leaned down again to the driver 's window . |
| 21 | When this happens swim vigorously into wind and pull down hard on the mast |
| 22 | He searched desperately for Tony 's father among the confusing patterns of lights and shadow shifting and flickering down there on the prom . |
| 23 | No , she must have invisibly ascended through those upwards-sloping corridors and irritating little steps , and come down again on the spiral staircase . |
| 24 | He had to stop and sit down twice on the way because he felt as though he was going to collapse . |
| 25 | Anyway , the water goes up under pressure into the tanks in the roof and feeds down again to the washrooms by gravity . ’ |
| 26 | I had a drink of water as my throat was hurting , picked up Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals and sat down thankfully in an easy chair . |
| 27 | ‘ I live here with my two daughters , ’ the man said and sat down carefully in an armchair beside the columns . |
| 28 | I stumbled back and sat down heavily on the plinth , then staggered upright and pulled my cords back up . |
| 29 | One policeman tripped over a litter-bin and sat down heavily in the gutter . |
| 30 | As he neared it , he suddenly stopped , staggered and sat down abruptly on a chair , leaning forward and holding his head in his hands . |