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 | The famous chandelier , with its thousand lights , broke away from its ropes and crashed down on to the people below . |
| 5 | I revived as I felt myself go hurtling through the air and crashed down on to the wooden planks of the scaffold . |
| 6 | He leapt up the steps , grabbed his valise and hastened down again to the truck . |
| 7 | It 's an interesting mixture of management and overhead-view arcade action , and let down slightly by the latter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I picked up my cup and saucer and flopped down on to the half-moon hearthrug , curious as to what the desired effect of the substance was supposed to be , and wondering why it had n't worked , when I noticed the saucer felt thicker . |
| 10 | We reached the edge of the cliff and flopped down on to the soft turf . |
| 11 | He kicked his holdall out of the way and flopped down on to the sofa , quite exhausted by whatever he had been up to since the day he left . |
| 12 | Each morning trucks from the factory bumped along a dust road and turned down on to the low gravel bank where we were moored . |
| 13 | A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen . |
| 14 | There he pulled off his white turban and let his long black hair coil over his shoulder and drop down on to the ground . |
| 15 | ‘ There ought to be a law against it , ’ replied Dorothy emphatically , as she banged knives and forks down on to the table . |
| 16 | ‘ Come on you bastard , ’ she shouted and pressed down hard on the gas . |
| 17 | Isabel replaced the candle on its spike and slumped down on to the bed in despair . |
| 18 | When we reached the road we stopped and looked down again at the little house . |
| 19 | She rose to her feet , and looked down again at the rolling hillside covered with fruit and vegetables , with grazing goats , sheep and chickens . |
| 20 | Leithen and I stopped at the top of the hill and looked down again into the little green valley . |
| 21 | Dunbar came picking his way between the debris and the fallen , and looked down calmly upon the son and successor of his old enemy . |
| 22 | Theodora wiped her hands on the damp grass and lay down again beneath the currant bushes . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | That break in Sicily with my friends , and sailing down here on the Kestrel , was the first holiday I 've taken in ages … ’ |
| 26 | well why did she come and live down here in the first place ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When this happens swim vigorously into wind and pull down hard on the mast |
| 30 | He searched desperately for Tony 's father among the confusing patterns of lights and shadow shifting and flickering down there on the prom . |