Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] down [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They feel gloomy and weighed down so they think ‘ Why not escape to the country ’ ? ’ |
| 2 | The family were fed up with Birmingham and moved down when Bringwyn became vacant . |
| 3 | This method of examination involves cutting a very thin slice from the object , which is fixed to a microscope slide and ground down until it is only 0.02mm thick . |
| 4 | Nails concentrated hard and found the stride about once in every two circles , but could not keep with it for more than two or three strides before he lost his balance and came down while Midnight was coming up . |
| 5 | How dare this man demand his credentials as if he were some arriviste from the Colonies whose background had to be sniffed out and tracked down because his foreground was presumed to be so suspect ! |
| 6 | She pulled over as far as she could into the bushes at the side of the lane and slowed down while the car , a beaten-up old Ford , passed . |
| 7 | She tossed her hair out of her eyes and looked down as Adrian approached . |
| 8 | Every one had to be taken out and held down while we picked off the ants that were sinking their jaws between the scales . |
| 9 | He had then been dragged behind the vehicle and held down while the man who had been sitting beside him during the journey drove the car over his legs . |
| 10 | They both refused and sat down as Evelyn became the welcoming host . |
| 11 | We retreated to the crest of the island , and sat down where the turf was clean and dry . |
| 12 | We nodded , smiled and pointed down while a dual -seat jet fighter screamed off the runway in a climb that indicated that the instructor was pushing the buttons . |
| 13 | If Sartre 's argument depended on a logic of history as totalization but broke down when he could not combine the praxis of the individual with the general logic of ‘ totalization without a totalizer ’ except through the proliferation of his own writing , Althusser , by contrast , exploited the possibility of history as a ‘ process without a subject ’ , a history characterized by radical breaks and discontinuities , distinct from each other and not totalizing . |