Example sentences of "[vb past] down and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got down and looked at him . |
| 2 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 3 | The horse came to a stop before the porch , and the old servant got down and lugged her portmanteau out of the boot . |
| 4 | Dickinson got down and held back the prickly branches while Killion blundered out , his lips triphammering away at the opening consonants of all the swear-words he knew . |
| 5 | Toby ran to the sobbing boy and took the flannel , and as he did so a naked razor blade fluttered down and tinkled on to the floor . |
| 6 | Then he swooped down and landed on a road near Varadero Beach , right in the middle of evening rush-hour traffic . |
| 7 | Don Mini gave a signal and in five seconds Swan swooped down and landed on the tree . |
| 8 | I had spent four hours catching nothing and he simply swooped down and lifted a trout of at least 2lb from under my nose . |
| 9 | She swooped down and trailed her fingertips along the surface . |
| 10 | The answer , I think , involves a partial refutation of the interactionist position : crimes do share an intrinsic quality — they involve the knowing transgression of rules laid down and enforced by the state . |
| 11 | It is perfectly conceivable that we can make some general statements about the conditions that influence our self-indulgence or self-restraint in relation to rules laid down and enforced by the state , particularly when the nature of those rules and the way they are enforced are included for consideration . |
| 12 | Looking back , it seems a wonderful enough thing that I who am this , and she who is that , commencing so far away a life that , after such sufferings borne together and apart , ended so tranquilly there in a world so stable — that she and I should have passed through so much , good chance and evil chance , sad hours and joyful , all lived down and swept away into the little heap of dust that is a life . |
| 13 | Wednesday must have wished he had , the way Atkinson chested down and volleyed home a 20th-minute clearance , then spun brilliantly on a Neal Cox through ball to score a second after 67 . |
| 14 | I hauled back the wheel and the plane mushed down and hit the water . |
| 15 | He knelt down and got his fingers into a crack in the floorboards . |
| 16 | Now that bull weighed nearly a ton , but he leapt off the ground like a bird ; hit Merry in the back and knelt down and got his horn between Merry 's legs . |
| 17 | Instead of bending over her , he knelt down and looked at her face through the bars . |
| 18 | Now he knelt down and looked at the dead girl curiously . |
| 19 | Remembering a detail with sudden clarity , Charles knelt down and looked at the left-hand side of the front bumper . |
| 20 | She knelt down and rolled them up Bella 's legs and over her swollen knees . |
| 21 | Eliot 's presents were laid out on the table , and there was champagne and a birthday cake : when Rupert Hart-Davis lit the candles on the cake , Eliot knelt down and blew them out . |
| 22 | At the top of the cellar steps Broadman knelt down and fumbled in his tinderbox . |
| 23 | ‘ 'E 's a spry ole thing , but he 's as soft as butter , ent you , ole boy ? ’ and he knelt down and ruffled his fur . |
| 24 | She knelt down and took his hands . |
| 25 | He knelt down and re-piled them . |
| 26 | But when he knelt down and tested the earth with his hands , some of the tracks seemed fresh . |
| 27 | He would be deeply moved and encouraged , in his dreams , even by the smallest and most ordinary bud ; his nostrils got raw and caked with fine dirt as he knelt down and sniffed and sniffed to try and catch the first smell of green life . |
| 28 | The radio was on in the living-room , he entered and saw her lying on the floor , When he knelt down and touched her face it was warm , and she moved a little . |
| 29 | The girl knelt down and began to play a game of marbles with the Doctor . |
| 30 | She knelt down and stared at the smaller words below it . |