Example sentences of "when he [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had heard shots , including the rapid fire of automatics , but when he rushed down to the river-bank the kidnappers had already vanished with their victims . |
| 2 | But when he got down to the streets where we live he said , ‘ If people want a cleaner Britain , they can start with their own street and their own neighbourhood ’ . |
| 3 | He was a final-year student there when he went down to the provincial town of Kecskemet to earn some pocket money by delivering lectures . |
| 4 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 5 | When he stepped down from the editorship , the November 1975 issue carried a story slamming student apathy and a cartoon captioned : ‘ Will Tiger Tim 's boat sink without a replacement ? ’ |
| 6 | In spite of the headset that he wore for the flight , his ears were still ringing when he climbed down from the helicopter . |
| 7 | Each night he would be more red-eyed , hardly able to drag his feet with tiredness , his face caked white with lime , lime in his eyes and ears and nostrils , his throat dry , lime thick through his hair and clothes and when he sat down to the table he felt as if he were eating lime . |