Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] down on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They came out of the circuit one by one and bore down on the SE5s , each of which was now heading for the balloon from a different quarter . |
| 3 | LOOSE ALICE , also known affectionately as Slack , shot out of the trap in a blur of speed and bore down on the man who was running in front of her squeezing a squeaky toy . |
| 4 | I was blown to one side off the macadam , then dragged back and crashed down on the other . |
| 5 | Behind him there was a rumble as the great octagonal slab rose into the air , hung for a moment on one edge , and crashed down on the floor . |
| 6 | Then Handlebar 's cock suddenly jumped into the air , flew the distance that separated it from its rival and came down on the darker bird with its neck arched and talons open . |
| 7 | I rose from the table , went into the cell and flopped down on the hard wooden bed and was asleep almost immediately . |
| 8 | As the sun rose into clear skies and burned down on the plain of the Forth , you would say the exposed army opposite would have the worst of it , despite their shields and their awnings . |
| 9 | Magee leapt into the driver 's seat and pressed down on the accelerator , heading away from the scene of carnage , his own brow furrowed . |
| 10 | I laughed at myself , felt better , and settled down on the window-seat in the sun to enjoy what was left of the afternoon . |
| 11 | Loretta thanked Tracey , and settled down on the sofa with a new book about Jane Austen . |
| 12 | Later , he donned the vast pyjamas , switched on the television for a bit of background and settled down on the bed with the half-bottle of Jim Beam and The Book of Ultimate Truths . |
| 13 | In return , the Royal Navy gloried in the title of the Senior Service and looked down on the Army and the Royal Air Force . |
| 14 | Considering themselves to be superior , they cared little for the ordinary person and looked down on the sinners . |
| 15 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 16 | As the poets say — ’ he could not bring to mind a single line and so he stopped , and looked down on the lake as if in mourning , intuiting , correctly , that this would have the same effect as a couplet . |
| 17 | ( And in the alleyway behind The Gilded Cage , the three teenagers crouched high amidst the rubbish and looked down on the body of the middle-aged woman that they 'd just uncovered . |
| 18 | He stopped a little way away from me and fell down on the grass and hid his face in his arms . |
| 19 | One hot night he came home drunk and lay down on the flower-bed in the garden just outside the studio and fell fast asleep . |
| 20 | If you should faint , when you recover consciousness , do not attempt to do anything other than call your doctor or a neighbour and lay down on the bed . |
| 21 | The men were ordered to strip and lay down on the grass . |
| 22 | Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night . |
| 23 | After that , there seemed to be nothing to do , so she went upstairs and lay down on the bed . |
| 24 | He closed the book and lay down on the bunk , staring up at the bulge Pete made . |
| 25 | On the way to Whitby and the first hostel , we turned off at Skinningrove , a steel-producing town that looked exactly like a slice of Newcastle 's backstreets scooped up and set down on the rugged coastline . |
| 26 | Ari nodded and sat down on the cushions . |
| 27 | Elisabeth was hot ; she took off her raincoat , set down the knapsack containing her lunch and some books and sat down on the bench opposite a thicket of hazel , through which a path had been cut . |
| 28 | He glanced at Tock then climbed slowly up the steps to the basket and sat down on the little seat provided . |
| 29 | Then he moved from the centre of the room towards Franca , who moved quickly aside , and sat down on the chair which she had vacated , and leaned his head back against the wall and closed his eyes . |
| 30 | At another whistle the Friar stopped and sat down on the stump of a tree . |