Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some reason , this letter so unnerved her that she thought she must rush down to the sea at once , and run the thudding in her head quite out of it . |
| 2 | She knew hat she would be flaunted before the whole of Northumberland if her mother had her way , so , although aware that good form dictated that she should dress down in the country , she took a deep breath and faced the fact that , for their first few outings at least , she would have to wear what Nora called her ‘ dressy ’ clothes . |
| 3 | She was very depressed , until they moved house , which gave her something to concentrate on , so she could settle down to the fact that she had retired . |
| 4 | ‘ Are n't you and Charles due to go off on holiday soon ? ’ she queried , when tea and biscuits were duly dispensed to Lucy and she could sit down on a wicker-backed chair and sip her own . |
| 5 | Carolyn lay on her side , spine curved , head right on the edge of the bed so that she could stare down on the baby in its cot beside her . |
| 6 | She could go down into the town centre and look at the shops , have a cup of coffee somewhere , get back to her mother-in-law by four . |
| 7 | cos Deana used to have a chair by the bunk so she could climb down onto the chair , shut up |
| 8 | She could look down over the rail into a walled sunken courtyard belonging to the basement flat , a brick-lined niche with some white cast-iron garden furniture and some shrubs in open barrels . |
| 9 | He looked at her searchingly , then stopped and led the way across the rabbit-nibbled turf to a point where she could look down on the inlet he called Seal Haven . |
| 10 | Swathed in a thick towel , she emerged several minutes later from the bathroom , thinking that if she donned jeans and a pullover against the cooling night she could slip down into the garden and breathe some fresh air by the river . |
| 11 | Straight home ? she wondered , then decided she 'd go down to the front and see if her dad was there . |
| 12 | Other times she would go down to the galley to prepare a meal , which might have taken her mind off the water but rarely did . |
| 13 | She finally decided that she would go down to the garden and take a closer look . |
| 14 | Now Rhoda had stopped work she would go down to the newsagent on the corner for her cigarettes at the same time every morning , each day a little lighter on her feet . |
| 15 | She would go down to the club and do some keep fit for an hour , then have a fruit juice lunch and see if she could find a game of tennis . |
| 16 | I wondered how she would settle down in the United States when she and Hank did get married . |
| 17 | She would get down to the city centre somehow . |
| 18 | She insisted on knowing who her intruder was , and so she would wait down by the car to see who emerged from the building . |
| 19 | But she was on a winning streak , a lucky wave ; she would nip down to the Gas Board and fix things up . |
| 20 | Soon she would lie down in the arms of a stronger lover than Tom would ever be and fall asleep . |
| 21 | She can pop down to the basement , make herself a cup of coffee until the colour is removed when she is then encouraged to style her own hair ! |