Example sentences of "[verb] and [pers pn] [verb] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let it fall and they ran down through the field after Caspar . |
| 2 | Two engines and propellers had been removed from the aircraft and all of a sudden the nose lifted and she went down on her tail . |
| 3 | Hugh approached and they sat down together , the Corduroys and the Pargeters , and Molly felt that her husband 's almost invisible disposal of his food was a criticism of her lack of delicacy and the extent to which she had to open her mouth to accommodate her bun . |
| 4 | Her shoulders stiffened and she looked down at her folded hands . |
| 5 | All of a sudden , she whined something about me not knowing what I had done and she broke down into tears . |
| 6 | ‘ There was no sign to say the drain was uncovered and I fell down it , cutting my leg and ankle and ruining my shoes , socks and slacks , ’ he writes . |
| 7 | Commonsense prevailed and he shinned down amidst cheers and sighs of relief . |
| 8 | For a long moment they lay and she gazed down at him , their eyes locked . |
| 9 | She had this big house Jane 's got and she went down to Jane 's small house |
| 10 | But suddenly her voice slowed and she looked down at her hands . |
| 11 | But it , it was so varied that you went through the , the cities and the highland scenes where they went through the highlands and in the country and then you ended up with coming on to a crossroads in a modern , a futuristic city , where if you look down you , the pavements were elevated and you walked down to where all the models of General Motors were displayed as if they were crossing roads . |
| 12 | They had retired and they lived down at Lowestoft so it was a lovely place to go for summer holidays . |
| 13 | For three weeks I had nothing to do and I sat down and decided — I have recorded all these pieces before — to see if there was not something more behind the music . |
| 14 | Fists struck , heads butted , feet flew and he went down , still fighting but hurt now and aware of real danger . |
| 15 | Some of the boys followed and we went down into the basement and I turned the phonograph on as loud as it would play . |
| 16 | you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road . |
| 17 | But down it went and it stayed down . |
| 18 | Gazzer 's legs went and he sat down heavily in the dirt , his nose smashed and his eyes full of tears . |
| 19 | Wexford laughed and they went down in the lift together . |
| 20 | Then there was a patch when I tried freelancing , then my father-in-law died and we moved down here . |
| 21 | His face disappeared and he lay down again : |
| 22 | He looked up at her and smiled and she lay down with him on the grass in the sun . |
| 23 | High on a mountain we paused and I looked down on Lough Nafooey , a lake lying far below us . |
| 24 | Three of you are unlocked and you come down and there are prison officers standing everywhere — to me that was stupid , because if the women wanted to riot they would have done it in the dining hall there and then . |
| 25 | When I went the receptionist was just leaving and she walked down into the town with me . |
| 26 | I du n no what to say and I look down at my feet . |
| 27 | Less than a year later we got married and I moved down here and eventually found myself a job . |