Example sentences of "she [vb past] down to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She moved down to the kerbside , smiling graciously as she elbowed her way through the crowd . |
| 4 | She sank down to the ground , hugging her knees and rocking herself back and forth to keep warm . |
| 5 | The next time she came down to the village was after a day or two . |
| 6 | One of Aunt Tossie 's luxuries was an early breakfast in bed — later she came down to the dining room where she ate a second . |
| 7 | When she came down to the drawing room , Dada was looking particularly small , too . |
| 8 | When he tried to upstage her she sauntered down to the front of the stage and such was her control over the audience now , he had to back off , otherwise it would have been he who looked ridiculous . |
| 9 | After a few moments she climbed down to the space station and ran off in the opposite direction to the shapechanger . |
| 10 | Her thinking grabbed her and she raced down to the beach , and followed the rocky shoreline looking for signs of him , but saw nothing . |
| 11 | She dug down to the water 's edge and the water flowed into it . |
| 12 | She stepped down to the level . |
| 13 | What was this man — she glanced down to the bottom of the page , to where his signature was scrawled — this man Charles Austin going on about ? |
| 14 | She rang down to the reception , and asked tetchily whether she had been given the correct room number . |
| 15 | She reached down to the floor where her candle stood , and when she 'd groped for the matches , which proved , as always , astonishingly difficult to locate , she lit it . |
| 16 | Ah , yes — somewhere around ten-forty she went down to the kitchen for some milk , and found the room unduly cold . |
| 17 | When she went down to the kitchen eight mugs on the draining-board said that someone had washed up ; she was the last . |
| 18 | Thinking : Pat , where 's Pat ? she went down to the kitchen , and found Pat , with her jacket on , a scarf , and her bright scarlet canvas holdall . |
| 19 | She went down to the kitchen and cooked herself a large breakfast . |
| 20 | She went down to the kitchen . |
| 21 | She was not particularly hungry , but she went down to the hotel 's dining-room around eight that evening , then returned to her room to spend a fitful night . |
| 22 | Then she went down to the cancer shop and asked if she could help them . |
| 23 | ‘ She went down to the shed , ’ said Conradin . |
| 24 | She went down to the lobby to settle the bill so far for both their rooms , and then changed her mind and paid only for her own and the booze . |
| 25 | Dawn was just breaking as she went down to the burn to fetch water . |
| 26 | When later on she went down to the sea she felt almost as cheerful again as in pre-Andrée days . |
| 27 | When she went down to the sitting-room to pour tea for her mother , the latter was in one of her most waspish moods . |
| 28 | Some twenty minutes later , cool and attractive in a tangerine and white suit , dark , gleaming hair coiled neatly on top of her head , she went down to the desk . |
| 29 | She went down to the front , or what had been the front , and stared out to sea . |
| 30 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |