Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By nine that morning they were parked on a side-street off Tottenham Court Road , Bodie at the wheel of the Capri , Doyle slouched down in the passenger seat , idly , almost cursorily , watching the heavy flow of traffic up towards Warren Street . |
| 2 | Blair crept down to the bank whilst I rehearsed various reasons to explain why he had not caught the trout : lack of experience , bad casting technique . |
| 3 | He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house . |
| 4 | Harvey sank down into the parched grass . |
| 5 | Having handed over her letter and waved goodbye , Perdita wandered down to the stables . |
| 6 | ‘ Get Hawkins to go down in the cellar and help thee , and mind th'do n't get up to any pranks . ’ |
| 7 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 8 | Hatch bent down to the plants . |
| 9 | Hari sank down on the bench beside him . |
| 10 | Rex dropped down from the ceiling . |
| 11 | Manville flopped down in a chair without being asked . |
| 12 | Corbett squinted down at the faded blue-green ink . |
| 13 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 14 | Madge held the folds of material away as Therese climbed down from the stage . |
| 15 | Chatterton climbed down to the deck and told me that Robin-Anne had eaten a huge breakfast . |
| 16 | Rocky nodded down at the girl between them . |
| 17 | Lucy glanced down at the book lying open on the desk . |
| 18 | Galvone glanced down at the wall-to-wall shag carpet , shrugged . |
| 19 | The voice at the other end of the line obliged and Donna pressed down on the cradle to sever the connection before ringing the new number . |
| 20 | Rex glanced down at the billfold and then back to the screen . |
| 21 | ‘ Thank you , ’ he answered , bewildered , and was even more surprised when Therese called down from the stage , ‘ Coming for coffee , Madge ? |
| 22 | Stok walked down into the darkness . |
| 23 | Account executives at the insurer , who monitor its agents , had Wright marked down as a man with constant cash flow problems — he was always hassling them for his commission . |
| 24 | When , on his final journey to the police station , Raskolnikov kneels down in the middle of the Haymarket and kisses ‘ the earth , the filthy earth ’ ( zemlya ) as Sonya has bidden , it is entirely calculated by Dostoevsky that a tipsy artisan should laugh at the strange young man who ‘ is bowing down to the whole world and is kissing the capital city of St Petersburg and its soil ’ ( grunt , the German Grund ) . |
| 25 | Hennessy looked down at the slip of paper that he was being offered . |
| 26 | Wayne Biggins went down in the box . |
| 27 | Someone 's brother , baby son , or lover he thought and now he was gone : Corbett looked down at the corpse and felt the futility of the death . |
| 28 | Corbett looked down at the fearful remains of a young man who , the last time they had met , had been a vigorous young soldier interested in clearing his own name . |
| 29 | Ken reached down under the bar and produced a homemade sign . |
| 30 | Crouched in the shadows at the curve of the banister , Frankie stared down at the dark jungle of coats and jackets hanging from a row of wall-hooks in the lower corridor . |