Example sentences of "he [vb past] down [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 2 | Again and again he bore down on the Annamese woman and as his movements quickened he kept his gaze fixed challengingly on Flavia Sherman 's face . |
| 3 | He knelt down in the constricted space . |
| 4 | He came down to the front door with me . |
| 5 | Other miscellaneous missiles rained in on him as he clambered down from the improvised platform with the help of his small band of left-wing brothers . |
| 6 | He walked down to the next floor where two men sat working at desks facing each other . |
| 7 | Ellen twisted away and Sweetman laughed at her obvious discomfiture , then , as coolly as though he owned Wavebreaker , he stepped down into the central cockpit where he first brushed at , then sat on , one of the white cushioned seats by the ship 's wheel . |
| 8 | He stepped down among the frozen reeds . |
| 9 | He glanced down at the mechanical bird caged at his feet . |
| 10 | But even then , when she was standing upright beside him , he made no attempt to release her hand and Rachel was only too aware of his appraising glance as he glanced down at the wet jade swimsuit tightly moulded to her slight , almost boyish figure before abruptly she snatched her hand away and walked quickly to the changing-rooms . |
| 11 | As they set up the now empty suit with its back to the door , half slumped over a control panel , he settled down behind the curtained entrance of the showers . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When they 'd putted out he went down to the 7th tee . |
| 14 | We 'd have a respite of about a fortnight if we were lucky before he went down with the next one . |
| 15 | He went down into the foetid holds of the ‘ sick ships ’ of the second fleet where hundreds lay dying or ill . |
| 16 | We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time . |
| 17 | He went down through the lower hall to the kitchen , drank some water . |
| 18 | He lay down under the single sheet and closed his eyes . |
| 19 | With his hands still covered in paint he lay down on the chilly sheets and waited for sleep to take his confusions away . |
| 20 | No wonder Uncle Mick grinned as he looked down on the nearly-elegant sitting-room . |
| 21 | In the dying firelight he looked down on the sleeping face of Joe the Fish . |
| 22 | He looked down on the pretty garden and saw the two of them snoring there , their front claws tucked neatly under their chins which rested on silk cushions and their tails dipped tidily into the pond whose waters did not stir enough to move their dreams to wildness . |
| 23 | He looked down on the bent head , but there was no response from Millie . |
| 24 | A sense of gloom blanketed his thought as he looked down to the dark water and heard the hiss of it rushing over the invisible weir ahead of him . |
| 25 | ‘ Moje milá , ’ he gently breathed , and , pulling a little away from her , he looked down to the naked swollen pink-tipped breasts he had uncovered . |
| 26 | Reginald remained in the middle of the room staring at the closed door for a moment ; then , his head making small jerks , he turned towards the fire and , leaning his elbow along the mantelshelf , he looked down into the dying embers . |
| 27 | he looked down at the two hands locked onto his arm and then at the small man hurrying on ahead , and realized that he still had his chaperons , and once again they were not of his own choosing … |
| 28 | ‘ They tell me betting-shops are littered with torn-up betting-slips , ’ said Morse , as he looked down at the two pink slips that Ashenden had handed to him . |
| 29 | He looked down at the yawning drop below . |
| 30 | He looked down at the other hand neatly folded in his lap . |