Example sentences of "down and [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A DRINK-DRIVER mowed down and killed a young mother on her first night out since the birth of her son six months ago . |
| 2 | JOYRIDERS mowed down and killed a disabled woman in her invalid carriage yesterday . |
| 3 | A SPEEDING motor-cyclist who knocked down and killed a 73-year-old man was fined £2,000 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday . |
| 4 | Another door , covering the bars of the fire , could be let down and formed a useful ledge . |
| 5 | Springfield slid the aerial down and directed a relieved grin at the quizzical expressions on the faces of his watching companions . |
| 6 | He sat down and saw a bifurcated path , simmering with gold heat round and under the rising , spreading blue-black-green down-pointing vanes of a great pine , still widening where the frame interrupted its soaring . |
| 7 | A little boy tugged at my skirt ; I looked down and saw a brown face with the sun on it , smiling . |
| 8 | Having , as I say , abandoned everything he had done , he sat down and wrote a six-part novel within a year which included a twenty-six day break in which he threw together and dictated The Gambler , itself not a small book nor a negligible one , to satisfy the terms of a contract he had made with a shyster publisher . |
| 9 | Finally , he sat down and wrote a long letter to Sybil Vane . |
| 10 | ‘ It was exactly semi-retirement because I took all my gear down and demoed a good album 's worth of material . |
| 11 | Mahmoud quietened down and raised a fresh cup of coffee to his lips . |
| 12 | You fell down and slid a little way , did n't you ? |
| 13 | A huge hand reached down and put a little tray on the packed earth under the floor . |
| 14 | After a while Ollie jumped down and sat a few feet away . |
| 15 | The ball eluded Winterburn , and Ritchie , Oldham 's leading goalscorer , chested the ball down and crashed a fierce volley beyond Lukic . |
| 16 | There was a woman who was assaulted , the Turks from the restaurant came down and beat a single man outside the Moat Centre . |
| 17 | After about ten minutes it came down and flew a cautious lap , and then landed . |
| 18 | Oral tradition was written down and gained a wider currency than ever before . |
| 19 | But now her husband has tracked her down and obtained a High Court order for the return of his children to America . |