Example sentences of "she [verb] down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | and she , he , she goes down to the abortion centre right after and he dies ! |
2 | Tilda appeared with a ball of oozing clay in her arms which she flung down on the table . |
3 | Maybe she slows down in the cold . |
4 | She gazed down at the London horizon , its tranquillity pierced by hulks of office buildings . |
5 | She gazed down at the floor despondently . |
6 | When I stick my head round the door and tell Rachel I have to go out again , she sits down on the bed without a word . |
7 | Once or twice when she crept down to the turn in the stairs to see if it was safe to go and get something to eat , she was scared back by the murmur of unfamiliar voices , and saw three or four bicycles parked in the hall , leaning together with their pedals tangled in each others ' spokes , forming an intricate barrier to outside . |
8 | She got down on the floor and ran her arm under the bookcase . |
9 | She got down into the hall . |
10 | She got down from the jeep , straightened her dress and headed back towards the barn . |
11 | She sit down on the chair but she 'll want to stand up a little bit cause we got bins underneath and she wants to put her feet on the bins |
12 | She hopped down to the floor , but it seemed further away than she had expected and now suddenly it was rising up crazily to meet her . |
13 | As she bent down over the fire , her nose-ring and the silver coins of her necklace glinted fiercely . |
14 | She peered down into the water but was aware only of her own reflection and that of the branches of the beech trees . |
15 | Lifting it , she peered down into the blackness below , feeling the first rung of a rickety ladder as she dangled her foot into the yawning gap . |
16 | She bore down on the hybrids and , with her claws , she killed them almost before they realized . |
17 | As for you , boy ’ — she bore down on the student — ‘ are you one of my new dressers today ? |
18 | She knelt down on the cushion , placed her ungloved hands together , closed her eyes and appeared to be either thinking or sleeping in an upright kneeling position . |
19 | She moved down to the kerbside , smiling graciously as she elbowed her way through the crowd . |
20 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
21 | She sank down to the ground , hugging her knees and rocking herself back and forth to keep warm . |
22 | She sank down on the bed . |
23 | She sank down on the bed with the photograph gripped so tightly in her hands that the paper buckled . |
24 | The quiet click of the latch sounded like a death-knell in the silent room , and she sank down on the bed , her mind and heart devoid of hope . |
25 | With a small sigh that sounded distinctly apologetic , she sank down on the edge of the armchair opposite him . |
26 | Robbie 's legs gave way and she sank down on the side of the bed . |
27 | She watched him go back to the kitchen and when he had shut the living room door firmly , she sank down on the rug in front of the gas fire with her back propped against the armchair and sipped gloomily at the wine . |
28 | When she returned to the kitchen , she sank down at the table and tried to eat a little of the food , conscious that Craig was watching her . |
29 | She sank down by the side of the road . |
30 | It 'll be after 2am before she bunks down in The Hitman coach on the way back to London . |