Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] and [verb] down " in BNC.

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1 When the men had gone back to the Inn Allen dropped out of the tree and ran down the slope to her .
2 Athelstan walked to the entrance of the hold and gazed down .
3 He was about to apologize , remembered the microphone , then moved round to the other side of the desk and sat down .
4 Nathan returned to his own side of the desk and sat down .
5 And crawled over the edge of the dish and slid down into the mushy stuff .
6 Cornelius stuck his hand up , caught the eye of the auctioneer and ducked down again .
7 She had reached the edge of the park and looked down the slopes to the fair in the dell on the far side .
8 Bakhramov 's opinion that an extra-time shot by Geoff Hurst had hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced down over the goal-line prompted Swiss referee Gottfried Dienst to allow the goal which gave England a 3–2 lead .
9 She followed him to the door ; he got some tools out of the shed and squatted down to unscrew the number plates from his old Renault .
10 He hauled his bike out of the shed and raced down the village .
11 When Lee turned out of the door and looked down to where the battered bird would have landed there was nothing to see but the same old Z-shaped crack in the hard , grey pavingstone and a streak of blood .
12 Silvery streaks of rain appeared out of the darkness and trickled down the shining panes .
13 No sooner had the mayor cut the tape than five DHAC members ran to the centre of the road and sat down , holding up placards .
14 CAPTAIN Mirko Pintar stormed out of the cockpit and sat down in a passenger seat .
15 We reached the edge of the cliff and flopped down on to the soft turf .
16 " Things like this are always happening to me , " she said , and shrugged put her elbows on the sill of the window and smiled down at him .
17 We had two minutes to get into cover and walked round to the other side of the wall and crouched down with our hands over our ears and our helmets firmly strapped on .
18 He picked up one of the ashtrays and sat down in an armchair , crossing his legs and balancing it on his knee .
19 Successive washes of burnt umber mixed with Prussian blue are applied to the top of the composition and pulled down , blotting out the light sections and leaving the shadows to create their own shapes .
20 Successive washes of burnt umber mixed with Prussian blue are applied to the top of the composition and pulled down , blotting out the light sections and leaving the shadows to create their own shapes .
21 In your mind you may have to start from the beginning of the paradigm and go down until you arrive at the form you need at the moment .
22 Duvall was suddenly standing on the step above him , pushing him out of the way and stepping down past him .
23 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 .
24 The security guard pushed Jack out of the way and bent down to the driver 's window as the Glory slowed down .
25 You 'd go to the back of the pub and sit down .
26 Some of these sound waves reach the ears of the listener and travel down each earhole to press on the stretched membrane of the eardrum .
27 I recall her pacing the sitting-room while I am doing my homework , pausing every so often to stand at one of the windows and look down into the busy street below .
28 This deed specifies the objectives of the trust and lays down broad conditions governing the management of the funds .
29 At ten o'clock that same night , while Suor Eusebia was engaging the carabinieri in conversation , he would have to get out of one of the upper windows of the building and slide down a drainpipe .
30 I think it 's rather an island in in the middle of the ermerm cultivated land so if you stand on top of the Ridgeway and look down you can see the Harwell site standing out as a a green treed area erm compared with the corn all round it .
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