Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he climbed down the cliffs , undressed on the beach and jumped into the sea . |
| 2 | Quickly he went down the ladder , crossed the kitchen and snatched up the top one of a pile of washed sacks from behind the kitchen door . |
| 3 | Now he put down the paper in his hand and looked up . |
| 4 | Stealthily he slipped down the deserted staircase past the second and third floors without mishap . |
| 5 | Then he ran down the wooden stair , through the house , out to the lower lawn . |
| 6 | Then he pulled down the oven door , smelt the sweet , fatty smell of the meat and knew that it was probably this very fact that accounted for his decision to go through with the business . |
| 7 | Then he pulled down the sheet , which was all the bedclothes she had needed on that warm night , and she lay naked before him . |
| 8 | Then he put down the knife and took the sticky thing in his fingers and started very slowly to eat it . |
| 9 | Then he put down the phone and glanced once more at the fingerprints beneath the microscope . |
| 10 | ’ Then he put down the phone before the number could be traced . |