Example sentences of "had [verb] down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The barbarian had vaulted down into the heather and had drawn the black sword , Kring . |
| 2 | He checked , but only momentarily , then he had jumped down onto the track a knife in his hand . |
| 3 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 4 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 5 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
| 6 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |
| 7 | Smith 's early demise opened the door for the much-anticipated return of David Gower , who had flown down for the Wimbledon men 's final in something other than a Tiger Moth the day before . |
| 8 | In bald form , Middlemas argues that around the time of the First World War the nineteenth-century British political system had broken down under the weight of the antagonism and conflicts in industrial society . |
| 9 | A third round of preliminary talks in Rome between the TPLF and the Ethiopian government on March 20-29 had broken down over the TPLF 's insistence that " substantive talks " should involve a joint delegation of the TPLF and its ally , the Ethiopian People 's Democratic Movement ( EPDM ) . |
| 10 | Cabinet negotiations had broken down over the balance of power in the government , with the " small coalition " demanding greater control over the economy than the PSL was prepared to concede . |
| 11 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 12 | Production day supervisor Bob Hodson illustrated the point : ‘ ICI phoned earlier to say the tanker with the morning delivery of phenol had broken down on the motorway and would n't be here until four o'clock . |
| 13 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 14 | Nell Anderson said it , knowing that it was hopeless , that Delaney would — had to go down to the engine room . |
| 15 | Sarah was kept busy replenishing dishes , and every time she had to go down to the kitchen she was afraid of missing the Reverend Morey , but he appeared last of all . |
| 16 | ‘ The Welsh name for the bridge over there , ’ said Beuno , gesturing , ‘ means ‘ the place where the milk was spilt ’ because one year the nuns ' cow went dry and they had to go down to the village to beg for some , and they got this far and then one of them dropped it . ’ |
| 17 | Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone . |
| 18 | The fat man over to his right had leaned down to the floor . |
| 19 | Hebbert had wound down after the adrenalin rush and was furious at having to crank up again . |
| 20 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 21 | One or two of the demonstrating ladies had sat down on the pavement ( they should never have shown Gandhi on TV ) and were singing ‘ the one with the waggerly tail … ’ with gusto . |
| 22 | It was the first time she had sat down during the lesson . |
| 23 | If a bird had looked down on the quarry in the next few seconds it would have been amazed . |
| 24 | The rocks referred to were boulders that had come down off the moor in the flood . |
| 25 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 26 | In the twilight of the Great Drought he had come down to the river and filled his wheelbarrow with water until only a Samson could have moved it . |
| 27 | The Jew had left Judaea , where the capital has a name difficult to pronounce ( they call it Ierusalem ) and had come down to the sea . |
| 28 | Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies . |
| 29 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |
| 30 | On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her . |