Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [conj] [vb past] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went behind the canvases and looked down . |
| 2 | He picked up one of the ashtrays and sat down in an armchair , crossing his legs and balancing it on his knee . |
| 3 | As Vimla pirouetted , pulling her sari over her head in a parody of the Dance of the Seven Veils , Chaman Guru put down the cymbals and got down to the serious business of collecting money . |
| 4 | For at that moment , directly below the steps that led down to the Moebius Strip , the float of dummy Capellans was purring serenely by . |
| 5 | Michele lifted out Luce 's bag , passed her the crutch , and , having handed over the car keys , led her through the crush of people and vehicles to the steps that ran down to the Grand Canal . |
| 6 | Bodie went up the steps and stared down at the girl , who looked up at him pathetically . |
| 7 | Donna took a step closer to the top of the steps and peered down . |
| 8 | He gripped her by the shoulders and glared down into her face . |
| 9 | The other classic Ce Ce Rogers anthem lifted from the vaults and dusted down for rerelease . |
| 10 | ‘ The floorboards that went down to the water with Harry , they stayed under . |
| 11 | I put both hands on the rails and vaulted down to the accommodation deck . |
| 12 | So many lights ; the yellow lights of the arc-lamps that shone down on the river-bank ; the white lights from the flashes of the police photographers ; the blue lights of the police cars that lingered still around the scene . |
| 13 | He turned to the bookshelves and pulled down an art book . |
| 14 | He switched on the lights and drove down the tank paths towards the front gate . |
| 15 | But Rohmer had to know the answer to the questions that had fascinated and intrigued him for so long ; the questions that bore down on him with ever-increasing force during the drug-induced hallucinatory periods that were now so frequent in his life . |
| 16 | I did n't run straight home to the house , but went back up into the dunes and sat down there , holding the flowers . |
| 17 | As in Wigston , few of the families that put down roots in the parish of Myddle during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had been there in earlier times ; the turnover of names between the 1370s poll tax returns and the subsidies levied in the reign of Henry VIII was equally remarkable in both parishes . |
| 18 | We filed into the boxes reserved for the writers and gazed down at the acres of empty seats . |
| 19 | After one last , loving look at the ‘ old home ’ , I walked through the turnstiles and broke down . |
| 20 | W first of all though I think I 've got them right this time I hope , the World Health Organization , charities , the United Nations , the European Commission erm foreign business organizations and l the bodies that lay down regulations er for activities . |
| 21 | He then ignored both of them , walking to the stairs that curved down into the room and taking the luggage up . |
| 22 | But when she went to the head of the stairs and looked down she could see that his study door was ajar and the house was quiet and she returned to her room . |
| 23 | She moved to the head of the stairs and looked down into the hallway , listening to his footsteps approaching the front door . |
| 24 | She came out at the head of the stairs and looked down . |
| 25 | Turning , she rushed to the stairs and started down to the ground floor . |
| 26 | Turning away , Grant walked to the head of the stairs and started down , shotgun held at the ready . |
| 27 | And she slipped like a ghost into the shadows and ran down the gallery . |
| 28 | The visitor sat back and watched the alchemy of the coffee take shape as the slightly stale odour of boiling milk permeated the room and steamed up the windows that looked down into Sauchiehall Street . |
| 29 | Mrs. Pridmore , comforted , drew back the curtains and settled down to enjoy her third cup of tea . |
| 30 | She spun round to face him with blazing blue eyes and then her head fell as the blue became blurred with tears , and pity for herself , for her mother and for the man she scarcely remembered came flooding with the tears that fell down her cheeks . |