Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] down by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I walked down by the riverside one evening in the spring Heard a long gone song from days gone by Blown in on the great North wind Though there is no lonesome corncrake 's cry of sorrow and delight You can hear the cars and the shouts from bars and the laughter , and the fights May the ghosts that howled round the house at night never keep you from your sleep May they all sleep tight down in Hell tonight or wherever they may be … |
| 2 | Armed with the yellow pages and a mug of coffee , I settled down by the telephone . |
| 3 | Andy and I went down by the river and the loch , clambering up the rocks upstream then back down , watching fish jump lazily out on the calm loch , or strike at the insects speckling those flat waters , jaws snapping underneath ; dispatching , swallowing , leaving ripples . |
| 4 | I sat down by the table and lifted the pot . |
| 5 | Then I sat down by the letter table . |
| 6 | I sat down by the side of Blyth , careful not to let my shadow cross his face . |
| 7 | Now he is hoping his speech which slowed down by the coma will quicken up . |
| 8 | You sit down by the fire , you 're wet and cold . |
| 9 | She knelt down by the low window , put her head on her arms and cried bitterly . |
| 10 | She sank down by the side of the road . |
| 11 | Lucy 's use for the place now over , she cut down by the stage and went out through the main part of the club . |
| 12 | She lay down by the side of the water and , because the water did not receive her shadowy form , the trout were fooled . |
| 13 | You 've a gift for this sort of thing , ’ declared Susan , as she sat down by the fire and gazed appreciatively round the room . |
| 14 | She sat down by the window , smiling vaguely . |
| 15 | Quickly stripping off her gown , which had become soaked again , she sat down by the fire and began to comb through her wet , tangled hair with her fingers , holding the strands to the blaze to dry . |
| 16 | Your council can also choose to extend these periods of time or set new classes of property other than the one laid down by the Government . |
| 17 | But if we go in the park she can run more , or in the summer we go down by the old railway track do n't we ? |
| 18 | We sat down by the fire , in silence . |
| 19 | We sat down by the fire and he began to tell me his story . |
| 20 | Ciaran Fitzgerald 's dishevelled and disheartened foot soldiers ( l-r ) Halpin , Smith , Popplewell , Rigney , Galwey and Fitzgibbon , reel from the French onslaught as they go down by a record margin in Paris . |
| 21 | Once at the square , they sat down by the Monument to the People 's Heroes in the early hours of a bitterly cold Beijing morning . |
| 22 | He knelt down by a familiar mound and after a moment 's hesitation yanked out the cross that he had placed at the head of the grave . |
| 23 | As he knelt down by the fire with a hare leg to gnaw , Farquhar Neas studied her again . |
| 24 | He knelt down by the pool . |
| 25 | She was shuddering in distaste when Travis came in carrying an armful of kindling , which he tossed down by the fire . |
| 26 | ‘ Was it taken down by a policeman ? ’ |
| 27 | And was he mown down by the fork-lift truck as a result ? |
| 28 | If you favoured sweating it out , you sat around on tiered benches and chatted with your friends until you started dissolving into steam , and then got yourself scraped down by a slave with a sort of sickle thing called a strigil , and massaged , and oiled and perfumed , or if you were a real fanatic you probably went straight from the hot room to take a cold plunge , like sauna addicts rolling in the snow . |
| 29 | Miles met them , and clasping Joseph 's hand , said , ‘ Come ; let us sit down by the fire and talk this matter over ’ . |