Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt such a clown , standing before them with that vulgar object between her open legs , but she slowly sank down towards the disgusting dildo and manipulated her thighs until the blunt tip was nudging at the portals of her reluctant orifice . |
| 2 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 3 | Others hated and ignored them , saying they only came down to the city to steal . |
| 4 | From that point on he only went down to the hospitals ‘ as and when required ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ But the lift buttons only went down to the ground floor . ’ |
| 6 | But despite the handicap Essex made a terrific fight of it and only went down off the penultimate ball . |
| 7 | At first he refused to answer , then realised that no assassin would make such a noise so went down to the door and called out : ‘ Who 's there ? ’ |
| 8 | I found the door unlocked as I had given my master the key before I left ; the light was poor but I could see nothing had been disturbed so lay down on the bed , pulling the curtains around me . |
| 9 | Yesterday , I incautiously sat down in the library in a chair just vacated by Colonel Fagg , and discovered later that the back of my entire uniform was covered in snuff . |
| 10 | Despite this , Junius soon got down to the business of casting aspersions against the King 's character . |
| 11 | The hammer finally slammed down on an empty chamber . |
| 12 | After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside . |
| 13 | They finally came down on the side of 36-year-old Anne Bancroft , although she had seldom played comedy , having made her name in such powerful dramas as The Miracle Worker and The Pumpkin Eater . |
| 14 | She might have sat all afternoon , nibbling and stuporous , exhausted but not sleepy ; but the glazier finally came down from the upper floor , cheerfully announcing that all was now right and tight and he would be on his way . |
| 15 | ‘ The window in the floor above flew down into the street , ’ he said . |
| 16 | It was just after ten in the morning , yet the sun already blazed down from a vast , deep blue sky that seemed washed clean of all impurities . |
| 17 | Many teachers , I have found , can remember from their own schooldays the shock and guilt they felt when a teacher finally broke down in the face of what , to the class , had seemed to be ‘ just having a bit of fun ’ . |
| 18 | I had intended to go to Downing Street , but then I thought I could n't bear it if old Chamberlain came out waving a bit of paper and smiling his death 's head smile , so I just lay down in the park instead . |
| 19 | But seconds later both the England striker and his team recovered their self respect when he netted a Samways cross — although it finally went down as an own goal by Higgins . |
| 20 | The gunfire outside died down as the Haitians scattered . |
| 21 | ‘ Don and I were near the top , ’ Steve explains , ‘ but we just saw down in the snow and Don pulled out a bottle of booze . |
| 22 | He had sounded immensely sad as he spoke , and I wondered if the girl had meant more to him than being merely a casual friend , but I did not like to ask and Maggovertski was clearly disinclined to explain more , so I just stared down at the aerial chart , and I suddenly noticed , in an otherwise empty space beneath an intersection of two air corridors , the tiny island of Murder Cay . |
| 23 | Benjamin just stared down at the table , shaking his head . |
| 24 | Once in a while , however , mud from the ridge above slipped down in a turbid cloud , carrying with it all kinds of small creatures and dumped them there . |
| 25 | Er , a couple of days later , it just split down like a banana , and |
| 26 | But the most important thing I thought was the thought process I mean just just saying this while you were just going on I just jotted down in the same way you could come off with three ideas that around and I felt that was that was ideal . |
| 27 | Sir John groaned as he eased his bulk up and sorrowfully waddled down to the aroma-filled kitchen . |
| 28 | ‘ Mother , she just jumped down from the wall on me like a ton of bricks … |
| 29 | But he said nothing , just sat down at the table , a pale-faced , freckled child , his school tie knotted to one side , and catching part of his collar . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's all cold , ’ she complains , then two minutes later she 's back eating it like she just sat down at the table . |