Example sentences of "she [vb past] down [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first she managed from their home up in Yorkshire ; later , as the pace grew more hectic , she moved down to a suite at the Adelaide in London . |
| 2 | Marion 's legs collapsed under her ; she sank down on a rock , and wept . |
| 3 | She sank down into a chair and watched as Craig knelt before the fire , building it back into a glowing warmth . |
| 4 | When the carriage was out of sight , she sank down into a chair and put her hands over her face . |
| 5 | As she flopped down in a corner seat , Constance looked at the man pushing her case on to the rack opposite . |
| 6 | She looked down at a letter on the table in front of her , collecting her thoughts . |
| 7 | She looked down with a fear that was also a pleasure at his stained , scarred hand . |
| 8 | We sat on the hall floor , cross-legged , in our forms , with our form-mistress beside us , so as the Headmistress stood on the platform , she looked down upon a sea of faces , rows and rows of black-stockinged legs , and a long line of mistresses sitting on their chairs . |
| 9 | And when she went down for a cup of tea , her mother mentioned casually that Parr had gone to Belfast , not to England as expected , although she did not know why . |
| 10 | But she went down like a sack of spuds and cracked her head open . |
| 11 | At first people were suspicious ; they could not understand why she was so interested in these details , which she wrote down in a schoolbook . |
| 12 | She ran and ran but could not see a house anywhere , so she sat down under a flower to rest . |
| 13 | She sat down without a word and shook her head when Whitlock asked if she wanted coffee . |
| 14 | When she went into the rest room she sat down for a minute while waiting for Peggy to come out of the lavatory . |
| 15 | Mr Whinnett said : ‘ Joanna was in a state of pure terror and , although she sat down for a while , she most certainly did not sleep . ’ |
| 16 | The 50-year-old child killer suffered a black eye , bruises and minor cuts as she sat down for a meal at Cookham Wood jail in Kent . |
| 17 | When Grace Farrier rose from the table , the men rose with her , and when , a few minutes later , she entered the drawing room she sat down with a sigh , for she was wondering how long Aunt Nessy 's stay would be this time . |
| 18 | She sat down on a boulder and put her head in her hands . |
| 19 | She sat down on a chair in the hall beside the telephone . |
| 20 | She sat down on a chair and held the boy with one arm . |
| 21 | Her knees were weak , and she sat down on a chair the press rep brought over for her ; she could not have trusted her legs to walk over to it . |
| 22 | When Nancy was out in the street again , she sat down on a door-step , and for a few minutes seemed unable to move . |
| 23 | She sat down on a rock . |
| 24 | She sat down on a rock . |
| 25 | She sat down in a chair , exhausted . |
| 26 | She sat down in a chair by the hearth . |
| 27 | She sat down in a chair by a table and as she had done once in Michael Swinton 's kitchen , put her head down on her folded arms and burst into tears of passionate gratitude . |
| 28 | She crouched down behind a row of freight cars and took in her surroundings : to her right a goods shed , to her left two sets of parallel track and a rusted freight car , its wheels barely visible through the tangled mass of overgrown weeds . |