Example sentences of "down and [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of us went down and rolled off the hard , wet pavement into the gutter , but it was me who cracked the back of his head en route and me who got a boot in the stomach which even my US Navy parka did little to cushion . |
| 2 | She hoisted the baby on to her hip and dragging a chair close up to the television set , sat down and stared at the blank screen . |
| 3 | She knelt down and stared at the smaller words below it . |
| 4 | Now he knelt down and looked at the dead girl curiously . |
| 5 | Remembering a detail with sudden clarity , Charles knelt down and looked at the left-hand side of the front bumper . |
| 6 | With a smile he put the rifle down and reached for the next in the stack at his side . |
| 7 | Adam put the phone down and went to the front door . |
| 8 | I knelt down and went through the dead man 's clothing . |
| 9 | Subsequently , the floods came down and went over the whole bridge , topping the rails , and it was a tribute to the efficiency of both its design and erection that the bridge withstood this successfully . |
| 10 | Dorcas sat down and leaned against the yellow metal . |
| 11 | The disclosure of these plans forced a premature announcement that two plants — Cowley South and Llanelli Pressings — were to be run down and closed in the early 1990s with the loss of about 3,400 jobs . |
| 12 | The Special Needs Unit , attached to the College of Further Education , is actually decking their Special Needs Unit out as a rain forest , both before and after , so there 's the rainforest in all its glory , and then the rainforest after it 's been chopped down and destroyed in the next room , so the Special Needs Unit are really enjoying that . |
| 13 | Then she broke down and cried onto the flowery wrapping-paper . |
| 14 | Ranulf squatted down and pointed to the small indentation of a boot . |