Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment she was too surprised to speak and simply stared as if she were looking down on an apparition . |
| 2 | She was sinking down into a dream , aware only of the warmth of his body wrapped intimately against her own . |
| 3 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 4 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
| 5 | She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap . |
| 6 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Then , before she realised it , they had stopped and she was pushed down to the ground next to Sung , her back to him . |
| 9 | The woman suffered head injuries after she was mowed down by a car which mounted the pavement . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 12 | She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience with sick children . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And , as she walked innocently along a street to collect holiday snaps before returning to Lancashire , she was cut down by a bullet meant for a soldier . |
| 15 | Occasionally with him she had the sense she was going down through a hole in the floor . |
| 16 | She was held down on the bed whilst a variety of sexual acts were performed on her . |
| 17 | She was weighed down with a confusing mixture of feelings that sometimes felt so mellow and piquant , it was almost pleasant . |
| 18 | She told teachers she was weighed down by the responsibilities of looking after her three younger sisters , including a nine-month-old baby . |
| 19 | She was staring down at the undulating ground . |
| 20 | She was walking down towards the ferry with Mr Clark and found the way blocked by a stationary train of wagons . |
| 21 | She put the tray she was carrying down on the wrought iron table . |
| 22 | She was set down in a quiet side-street near the Madeleine . |
| 23 | She was sitting down at the table ; he thought she really was looking very ill and wretched but his tender pride kept him silent . |
| 24 | She was sitting down on the couch with Newman beside her . |
| 25 | She was sitting down by the gate , one hand on her neck , her head canted over at a fierce angle . |
| 26 | Clearly suffering from the after-effects of a hip injury , she was knocked down for a koka — just three points — by the Soviet Elena Petrova , but it was enough to wipe out her hopes of a third consecutive world title . |
| 27 | Emer Tracy ( 14 ) died after she was knocked down by a lorry as she crossed Dungannon Road , Portadown . |
| 28 | 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 . |