Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 2 | I gazed down at the reclining form . |
| 3 | In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre . |
| 4 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 5 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 6 | Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead . |
| 7 | And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were . |
| 8 | I wept a little as I climbed the creaky stairs , and when I got into the attic I knelt down beside the bed , put my hands together and prayed . |
| 9 | I wandered down to the kitchens where Wolsey 's chefs were busy creating subtleties , strange confectionery creations : towers and castles of sugar ready to launch their assault on valiant teeth . |
| 10 | I flopped down in the seat but missed and landed on the floor . |
| 11 | I came down for the fire , for it was cold in my room . |
| 12 | ‘ But I came down to the theatre and was assured it was suitable for children so we came with open minds , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Billy ( Nottingham ) and I came down in the afternoon to help . |
| 14 | Shortly after a private reading with ‘ Bartholomew ’ in Taos , New Mexico , I drove down to the nearby Rio Grande . |
| 15 | One night — a Friday — I drove down to the Bois de Boulogne . |
| 16 | One Friday evening , I drove down to the lovely old house , Ramster , near Chiddingfold , where artist Mr Paul Gunn and his charming wife Miranda had invited friends to the first night of an exhibition of Paul Gunn 's most recent landscapes , and to drinks and supper . |
| 17 | I strolled down to the Tormes and its Roman bridge : in the Plaza del Puente at its northern end stands an ancient , battered statue of the Roman lion mentioned in Lazarillo de Tormes . |
| 18 | Aunt Bedelia and I were trying to watch Brookside , but it was an impossible mix , like tripe and onions with Bolognese sauce , so when Otley went down to the pub to see the lads I strolled down to the villa . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Approaching Keld I dropped down into the dale where Great Sleddale Beck falls over a succession of stairs , hard bands of limestone that have resisted the action of the water to form an impressive series of falls all of which are within a mile or so of Keld village . |
| 21 | I dropped down in the boat again , looking over my shoulder at the shore . |
| 22 | I dropped down from the loch only to find that the terrain was considerably steeper than I recalled on the way up , although the compass said I was doing fine . |
| 23 | As Taff and I ducked down into the trench I upset the remains of my meal over the floor . |
| 24 | I ducked down behind the garden wall until the firing ceased . |
| 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 climbed down through the sails , then went below to tie up my wound . |
| 27 | When all the girls left the schoolroom at five o'clock , I climbed down from the chair and sat on the floor . |
| 28 | After crossing several fields I turned down to the right to follow a metalled road for a while until I reached the first real treat of the day , the Roman road . |
| 29 | I plonked down on the hard wooden sofa and began musing : was he telling the truth ? |
| 30 | I wriggled down underneath the contraption and found a fourth , barely alive . |