Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This circularity is apparent in the seminal article written by Goody and Watt where they lay down the reasons why they attribute such importance to literacy . |
| 2 | The drive was tree-lined , so they went down the farther side , only visible now and then . |
| 3 | And they went down the shelter . |
| 4 | Ranulf scooped his dice into his leather wallet and they went down the spiral wooden staircase and into the hall . |
| 5 | Carefully , the major turned the conversation to an Iranian editorial he had seen , and they laid down the subject . |
| 6 | Ginny twisted towards him and they slid down the bed . |
| 7 | Eventually I called the police and they broke down the door . |
| 8 | And then , of course the er , they started running down Northgate hospital and they closed down the nurses home . |
| 9 | He walked straight back round the top of the little dale until they came down the slope to the road , well out of sight of the cottage . |
| 10 | Small children scrambled for the scattered coins before they washed down the drains . |
| 11 | When they broke down the door the remains of her body were found scattered over the floor . |
| 12 | As a result , the Marines experienced no resistance as they jogged down the hurriedly lashed gangplanks , and spread out across the docks . |
| 13 | She had watched from the window as they walked down the jetty , anxious as a mother sending her children off on their first day at school . |
| 14 | He continued to talk thus now , as they walked down the grand vista , away from the formal gardens and into the woodland rides , where classical figures loomed from the undergrowth and the serpentine rill wound away towards a distant temple . |
| 15 | And that was all that mattered as they cruised down the freeway , alone together in Zitney 's gleaming red hatchback . |
| 16 | As they dropped down the steep winding road , the sky was a brilliant blue , the sun gleaming on the gilt weathervane of the church and on the butter-and-honey-coloured buildings . |
| 17 | So the arrival at the Grand Quay of that famous pirate ship the ‘ Black Pig ’ caused no excitement , and Captain Pugwash , the Mate , Barnabas , Willy and Tom the cabin boy attracted little attention as they stepped down the gangplank and set off to view the sights of the town . |
| 18 | More effective was the rush by two of the protection squad firing their tommies as they ran down the ship 's steep gangplank . |
| 19 | As they rode down the village , George noted how clean and tidy it was . |
| 20 | On every side of them , as they rode down the winding valley of the Suir from Clonmel to Carrick , stretched great rolling hills , rising to the distant mountains — Slievenaman to the north , Comeragh to the south . |
| 21 | After a while , I turned to watch them as they receded down the hillside — two lumbering animals , with bodies grossly disproportionate to their slender stick-like ankles . |
| 22 | Henry sat for quite a long time thinking about the conversation between Elinor and her mother as they hurtled down the Paso della Lagastrella , brakeless . |
| 23 | Like a camera my restless mind followed the rabid mongrels of Puno as they roamed down the narrow streets , through the tight patchwork of market stalls , over the rubble-lined railway track , to fight at last over a pair of cow 's horns I had seen earlier topping a pile of refuse . |
| 24 | She recalled , with a lump in her throat , the slow tears gathering , glistening in the light of the lantern as they slid down the furrows in his cheeks . |
| 25 | The yacht pitched forward as they slid down the bow wave . |
| 26 | A tiny patch of blue punctured the dark blanket of sky , and the sun peeped out from a corner of the horizon as they headed down the beach , not stopping until they reached a small rocky promontory shaded by bushy casuarinas . |
| 27 | The Robemaker moved forward , prodding Nuadu onwards and , as they moved down the centre of the Workshop , the blazing furnaces roaring on each side of them , Nuadu felt his skin already shrivelling from the heat . |
| 28 | An unspoken sympathy bound them in comfortable silence as they padded down the garden . |
| 29 | The pictures , Britta realized , were the views seen by the Counsellors as they scrambled down the slope towards the wrecked craft . |
| 30 | Like London in the nineteen-forties , Paris seemed to have assembled every uniform and race loyal to the Allied cause ; and what variety , what colour the Moroccans and the Senegalese , Annamites and Malgaches , presented as they mingled down the Champs Elysées with immaculate cavalry officers , Foreign Legionnaires , kilted Highlanders , pretty nursing sisters , and now a sprinkling of American flyers from the Lafayette Squadron ! |