Example sentences of "she [be] [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 She 'll go up to you and she goes she looks at you like that and her eyes are all wide , sh sh she 's looking down at the wall like that to make sure it 's all clear , you know what I mean ?
2 She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him .
3 She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep .
4 She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap .
5 Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge .
6 She supposed that she must face the fact that she was run down after the years of nursing and the final shock of Donald 's death .
7 Then , before she realised it , they had stopped and she was pushed down to the ground next to Sung , her back to him .
8 Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling .
9 She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile .
10 She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience with sick children .
11 Baroness Thatcher too is an Oxford graduate , but when moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her in the nineteen eighties , she was turned down by the same people , amid stormy controversy .
12 She was held down on the bed whilst a variety of sexual acts were performed on her .
13 She told teachers she was weighed down by the responsibilities of looking after her three younger sisters , including a nine-month-old baby .
14 She was staring down at the undulating ground .
15 She was walking down towards the ferry with Mr Clark and found the way blocked by a stationary train of wagons .
16 She put the tray she was carrying down on the wrought iron table .
17 She was sitting down at the table ; he thought she really was looking very ill and wretched but his tender pride kept him silent .
18 She was sitting down on the couch with Newman beside her .
19 She was sitting down by the gate , one hand on her neck , her head canted over at a fierce angle .
20 She was squatting down in the photograph and Sabrina estimated her to have been a little over five feet with a slender petite figure and a pale , milky complexion .
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