Example sentences of "i [vb past] down [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
2 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
3 | Shortly after a private reading with ‘ Bartholomew ’ in Taos , New Mexico , I drove down to the nearby Rio Grande . |
4 | One Friday evening , I drove down to the lovely old house , Ramster , near Chiddingfold , where artist Mr Paul Gunn and his charming wife Miranda had invited friends to the first night of an exhibition of Paul Gunn 's most recent landscapes , and to drinks and supper . |
5 | I plonked down on the hard wooden sofa and began musing : was he telling the truth ? |
6 | As I settled down in the straw-filled barn that I had left a few moments ago in search of food , I looked around at the now sleeping Frenchman , stretched out in the straw . |
7 | I stared down at the white face of the ratman . |
8 | Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to . |
9 | Outside on the terrace , at the point from where Francis used to dive , and made the dive that killed him , I looked down into the moon-flecked pool . |
10 | I looked down at the perfect rosebud lips , the determined chin and the tiny clenched fists of my cub . |
11 | I looked down at the viscid mess and up to meet his dry smile . |
12 | I looked down at the glistening pavements . |
13 | I looked down at the pretty patterns that streets do n't know they make . |
14 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
15 | I lay down on the Pennine moors |
16 | They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office … |
17 | I went down from the upper grandstand as fast as I could , which was far too slowly because everyone else was doing the same thing . |
18 | I sat down at the little table , as well I might . |
19 | I sat down on the only patch of turf |
20 | I sat down on the wooden bed . |
21 | I sat down with the Financial Times and tried to count how many people were actually smoking underneath no-smoking signs . |
22 | I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness . |
23 | So I sat down in the warm , and ate the man 's breakfast . |