Example sentences of "and [verb] down [adv] [prep] the " 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 It 's an interesting mixture of management and overhead-view arcade action , and let down slightly by the latter .
6 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 .
7 ‘ Come on you bastard , ’ she shouted and pressed down hard on the gas .
8 When we reached the road we stopped and looked down again at the little house .
9 She rose to her feet , and looked down again at the rolling hillside covered with fruit and vegetables , with grazing goats , sheep and chickens .
10 Leithen and I stopped at the top of the hill and looked down again into the little green valley .
11 Dunbar came picking his way between the debris and the fallen , and looked down calmly upon the son and successor of his old enemy .
12 Theodora wiped her hands on the damp grass and lay down again beneath the currant bushes .
13 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 . ’
14 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 .
15 That break in Sicily with my friends , and sailing down here on the Kestrel , was the first holiday I 've taken in ages … ’
16 well why did she come and live down here in the first place ?
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 When this happens swim vigorously into wind and pull down hard on the mast
20 He searched desperately for Tony 's father among the confusing patterns of lights and shadow shifting and flickering down there on the prom .
21 No , she must have invisibly ascended through those upwards-sloping corridors and irritating little steps , and come down again on the spiral staircase .
22 He had to stop and sit down twice on the way because he felt as though he was going to collapse .
23 Anyway , the water goes up under pressure into the tanks in the roof and feeds down again to the washrooms by gravity . ’
24 I stumbled back and sat down heavily on the plinth , then staggered upright and pulled my cords back up .
25 One policeman tripped over a litter-bin and sat down heavily in the gutter .
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