Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breathlessly she flung herself down on the window seat . |
| 2 | Then suddenly she flung herself down on the bed and closed her eyes . |
| 3 | She made it down into the long drawing-room with a sort of grim look on her face that Alain noted with a frown . |
| 4 | It was a glimmering he had , but no more than that , and she cast him down from the height of her knowledge . |
| 5 | And she slammed it down on the desk . |
| 6 | She threw them down through the trap door and jumped after them to look . |
| 7 | She threw herself down on the sofa , and slept . |
| 8 | She threw herself down on the bed and started crying wildly . |
| 9 | When she threw herself down on the grass , he had expected Underwood to take advantage of the situation , but he sat upright and apart . |
| 10 | ‘ Some charm , ’ she muttered as she threw herself down on the bed . |
| 11 | John Major is understood to have offered her a junior minister 's job at the Home Office , but she turned it down on the grounds that it was not sufficiently senior . |
| 12 | Ruth saw thrown spears hang in the air as if floating in water , and she thrust herself down into the grass , her face in her hands so as not to see any more . |
| 13 | Leonora felt very subdued as she followed him down to the relatively peaceful little beach of Lee Haven , where years before Joshua Probert had built a safe anchorage for his boats . |
| 14 | She held the feeling in tight , she squashed it down under the heavy pasteboard covers of the recipe book . |
| 15 | She swung herself down from the back door and went round to the front steps of the kiosk . |
| 16 | She dumped herself down on the low stone wall that skirted the churchyard . |
| 17 | At first she could n't find him anywhere but finally she tracked him down to the big barn . |
| 18 | She slapped it down on the table , spilling some of its contents . |
| 19 | And she sent me down to the Headmistress and she says , ‘ You 've been drinking , have n't you ? |
| 20 | Yeah well by then you 'd , you 'd already messed him up , she must 've got him to sleep before she put him down in the cot did she ? |
| 21 | Millie had come into the room carrying a tin tray , and as she put it down on the table , she looked from one to the other and said , ‘ What are you talkin' about , closed schools ? |
| 22 | She put it down on the floor beside her guitar . |
| 23 | She put it down on the table in the hall and went upstairs smiling . |
| 24 | What was more , there had been a growing number of mice in her house of late and she put it down to the age of the animal . |
| 25 | Vaguely , she became aware that this man was having an effect on her , and she put it down to the fact that she was unaccustomed to associating with such a devastating member of the opposite sex . |
| 26 | She put it down to the dismal sound of the thaw . |
| 27 | She set it down on the kitchen table , stroked it with one finger . |
| 28 | Seeing her husband , she set it down by the back door and came across to the stable . |
| 29 | She sat them down on the sofa . |
| 30 | Scarcely pausing for thought , she sat herself down at the keyboard and , without so much as a sheet of music to look at , launched into Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto , blushing deeply to the round of spontaneous applause . |