Example sentences of "down and [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he swooped down and landed on a road near Varadero Beach , right in the middle of evening rush-hour traffic . |
| 2 | Don Mini gave a signal and in five seconds Swan swooped down and landed on the tree . |
| 3 | I sat down and leant against the wall , trying to decide what to do . |
| 4 | The rambler roses in the garden beyond grew along chains which dipped up and down and swung in the wind between six foot high posts , and a row of strangely shaped lumps of yew , grown hugely out of proportion , ran from the north corner of the house . |
| 5 | Now , you 've all been down and looked at the state of the playground below . |
| 6 | Dickinson sat down and looked at the adjutant , appalled . |
| 7 | ‘ I sat down and said to the doctor ‘ So I have cancer ’ and he said ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 8 | Margaret Stanhope put down the telephone , stood up , smoothed her tight skirt down and knocked on the door next to her desk . |
| 9 | The Captain sat down and reached for the telephone . |
| 10 | She placed the receiver down and reached to the table top , picking up the silenced gun and holding it gently in both hands . |
| 11 | There was no butter around so I jumped down and went to the living room . |
| 12 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
| 13 | A sudden sharp ring at the doorbell made Shelley 's decision for her , as they sprang apart , and she smoothed her uniform down and went to the reception desk to see who wanted her . |
| 14 | Resignedly he put his quill down and went to the bedroom . |
| 15 | When at last she put the receiver down and went into the kitchen she found that Edward had unpacked the shopping . |
| 16 | But still the urge to express her feelings tormented her and at last , in defiance of that dislike she had felt on their last meeting , she sat down and wrote to the person to whom she had once been most close , to Mrs Browning . |
| 17 | You bent down and wrote in the sand |
| 18 | As the policeman stepped down and walked to the rear of the lorry Billy turned to Freddie and shook his head slowly . |
| 19 | made one quick phone call , then took the lift down and walked across the road from New Scotland Yard to the little café which was , as usual , full of workmen engaged in rebuilding the offices in the area . |
| 20 | The cat jumped down and walked across the room . |
| 21 | That 'll be alright so cos he slid his my brief case and er I got all the way home , no problem at all , I 'd got newspaper under the back , so it did n't scratch the back when I come to come down Mill Road this lorry 's go , I mean I got the tail gate up and er I sort of looked in the mirror , I thought oh my goodness my tail gate , I could hear it so and I braked a bit sharp and that slid down and scratched along the dash board ! |
| 22 | Creggan stooped down and hovered for a moment over the carrion . |
| 23 | He slowed down and scuffled across the bus-stop kicking a brick . |
| 24 | He crouched down and clung to the rail with his right hand and reached out with his left as if to punch a hole through the wall . |
| 25 | At Nice when he heard the devastating news that his Portuguese friend , the artist Amedeo de Sousa Cardoso , had died of Spanish flu he broke down and sobbed like a child . |
| 26 | So I gingerly walked down and crept into the car realized that I was the one that had caused all that |
| 27 | Going over to her parked Jaguar , he had opened the driver 's door , bent down and felt under the seat . |
| 28 | Izzie , who had hidden Gabriel in a barrel once again and was about to climb into one herself , jumped down and ran towards the crowd shouting , ‘ Leave them alone ! |
| 29 | I dropped down and crawled to the front of the wood to have a look . |
| 30 | As soon as they had turned the corner , however , he put his paper down and headed for the row of pay phones that lined the wall . |