Example sentences of "her [noun] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 2 | ‘ To my grief and surprise I found her mind bowed down to the very depths of painful disquietude , unable to realise the presence of her Saviour , and harassed with the fiery darts of the great Enemy … |
| 3 | A LONE woman driver says she waited six hours to be rescued by the RAC when her car broke down on a motorway at night . |
| 4 | The body of the pregnant housewife was found near the M-50 motorway after her car broke down on the hard shoulder . |
| 5 | The pregnant housewife was found stabbed and battered after going missing when her car broke down on the M-50 motorway . |
| 6 | Her ordeal finally ended when her car broke down on the A559 , near Cransley Private School in Great Budworth , Northwich . |
| 7 | ‘ He was going to hit you , ’ she said , and her mouth turned down at the corners . |
| 8 | Gina sprang to her feet glaring down at the golden-skinned Dane lounging opposite her . |
| 9 | Unhinged in her mind when her fiancé went down with the Wessex , poor dear . ’ |
| 10 | Louise cried out as she felt her body tumbling down into the blackness . |
| 11 | It was Lavinia who had supported him every step of the way , kept him upright at the graveside , yet within a month she , too , was alone , her husband shot down over the Western Front . |
| 12 | Out of the corner of her eye , she watched her husband staring down at the cot . |
| 13 | The whooping and laughing boys carried her back to the village , her head dangling down from a branch slotted between her feet . |
| 14 | On the evening of a masked ball in the palace she came visiting with Bothwell and other lords , and while she chatted to her husband they — with or without her knowledge went down to the cellar to prepare the gunpowder stored there . |
| 15 | Her father squinted down at the page but she banged the book shut and slid it back on the shelf . |
| 16 | Her passengers hurried down into the empty hold , where the roof of the Alice was splitting into two . |
| 17 | Her knife sliced down into the breast of the chicken . |
| 18 | Her voice shivered down through the magic air around them ; her fingernails were a cap of spikes upon his head . |
| 19 | He — he — ’ Her voice ran down like a phonograph record . |
| 20 | — ’ Her hand flopped down on the sheet . |
| 21 | At this , her hands crashed down on the keys and she jerked forward , saying , ‘ Do n't do that , Daddy , please . ’ |
| 22 | Reaching out , Vitor touched a honey-coloured strand of hair which had tumbled from her topknot to curl down over the exposed nape of her neck . |
| 23 | ‘ Matilda is the late King 's daughter , Hugh , and we all took that oath to recognise her as the future queen after her brother went down with the White Ship , ’ protested the Prior . |
| 24 | Last night she and her mother bedded down on a mattress in the back of their secondhand horse-box eating food heated up on a mobile stove because they refused to pay the London prices of the arena 's eating places . |
| 25 | Her mother knelt down at the fireplace and lifted the iron grill from the front of the fireplace . |