Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to tremble violently and would have fainted , had he not grabbed me by the elbow and guided me to a low wall , where I slumped down . |
| 2 | Another pull for ten minutes or so brought me up on to the summit , where I sat down to have my lunch . |
| 3 | She went into the living room where she settled down at the dining table to mark compositions . |
| 4 | She started in the bathroom , where she washed down years of dust from walls and ceiling , scoured the toilet so that it sparkled , and dug out the thick dusty webs behind the pipes and wash-basin , disturbing a colony of frantic spiders . |
| 5 | She slammed the boot down , with a cry of ‘ God Almighty ! ’ and ran indoors , where she sat down at the kitchen table and beat her fists against the wood , with anger , with frustration , with a sudden , desperate concern for Nick . |
| 6 | Here she went to the dressing table where she sat down and regarded herself in the mirror . |
| 7 | Fabia reached Ven 's suite and let herself in , walked across the sitting-room and into her bedroom where she sat down on the edge of the bed , and felt , for the moment , defeated . |
| 8 | where we sat down at table |
| 9 | But where they fell down , they should have told you that was what would happen |
| 10 | This circularity is apparent in the seminal article written by Goody and Watt where they lay down the reasons why they attribute such importance to literacy . |
| 11 | She was weeping now and he guided her to a low wall in a secluded corner where they sat down . |
| 12 | It was never entirely clear where he bedded down at night after he lurched from the pub with various caddying cronies of a like mind . |
| 13 | Where he fell down was in failing to deliver on late payment of debt , which cost businesses dear . |
| 14 | The four priestesses led the man over to a freshly dug grave , where he lay down as the goat-faced figure produced a black cockerel . |
| 15 | Wexford pushed aside the willows that hung like a pelmet and came to the rubbish pocket , where he knelt down . |
| 16 | He strolled along by the front of the house until he reached the north wing , where he turned down the grassy slope towards the trees . |
| 17 | He curses them , as young men do — but not young ladies — he pulls out the arrow roughly , then leaves the creature there where it lay down and died . |
| 18 | There was no roof and the rain that had fallen in the night left dark stripes where it trickled down the greasy surface of the cows ' rumps . |
| 19 | Nor were we provided with lunch , so I walked down into Walham Green , past pleasant little gardens full of the colour of autumn . |
| 20 | I 'd phoned my father in the evening , and he did n't sound too well , so I drove down to see how he was . ’ |
| 21 | But it made sense at least to stretch my cramped legs , so I strolled down to the edge of the lake and lit a cigarette . |
| 22 | ’ So I went down to the canal . |
| 23 | It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport . |
| 24 | Darren , 21 , said : ‘ The smoke was very dense , so I got down low on the floor and pushed the kitchen door open . |
| 25 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 26 | I assumed the Maggot was delivering or picking up a customer , but it was none of my business , so I stripped down to my shorts and began work as Thessy , his brother Philemon and their father took a battered wooden skiff across the lagoon . |
| 27 | There was no butter around so I jumped down and went to the living room . |
| 28 | They all seemed to be down the after ballast compartment so I called down something like , " Come on lads , " I 've got my seizure , what about yours ? " |
| 29 | Once I went down with Jane to the village pub and we sat in the front parlour on our own , listening to what seemed to be a male voice choir performing in the next room , accompanied by mysterious foot shufflings and stampings . |
| 30 | Once I settled down , I got a lot more confident . |