Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | The little larvae soon emerge — they know which way to go ! — and bore down into the stem where they pupate and eventually emerge as adults . |
| 33 | Rex took a deep breath , sprang out from hiding and drew down upon the boy in the business suit . |
| 34 | Then she padded back into the bathroom , wriggled out of her nightie , and sank down into the hot water . |
| 35 | She ran the bath , loading it with bubble-bath , and sank down into the water . |
| 36 | Merrill went over to the wide settee and sank down into the feather cushions . |
| 37 | Once inside the house , Hari lit the candle and sank down at the table , her eyes heavy with tiredness and unshed tears . |
| 38 | Caroline freed it carefuly , rose from the bed , and sank down in the chair beside it . |
| 39 | I turned away from the window and sank down upon the bed . |
| 40 | We turned left , took a deep breath , and changed down to the very smallest chaining . |
| 41 | The shallow burial phase was dominated by pore waters that were derived from surface environments and percolated down through the buried sediments ( Fig. 6 ) . |
| 42 | The security guard pushed Jack out of the way and bent down to the driver 's window as the Glory slowed down . |
| 43 | We abandoned the last Munro , especially as it 's a top that can be combined with Meall Greigh to be bagged another day , and staggered down into the long glen that would take us back to our morning starting point . |
| 44 | Bakhramov 's opinion that an extra-time shot by Geoff Hurst had hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced down over the goal-line prompted Swiss referee Gottfried Dienst to allow the goal which gave England a 3–2 lead . |
| 45 | His hand moved from her neck and wandered down to the soft fullness of her body . |
| 46 | He woke late on the Sunday morning after their first week , sent Ingrid back to her Gasthaus , and wandered down to the coffee shop where several of them came and ate a late breakfast . |
| 47 | Then she and Jack placed the woman in the care of the duty staff and wandered down to the staff lounge to pour themselves the dregs of the coffee . |
| 48 | Some 70 pharmaceutical grade trace elements and the basic compound are melted together to ensure a complete mix before being solidified and ground down into the basic salt . |
| 49 | I was blown to one side off the macadam , then dragged back and crashed down on the other . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | He took in Marcus 's absence , went upstairs and came down with the pale boy behind him . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | We eventually left the outback by way of some tiny townships , widely spaced , and came down onto the Queensland coast at the busy city of Townsville with a modern cylindrical building surmounted by a silvery roof feature . |
| 54 | The green men in their cloaks of leaves and branches then discovered them , and came down to the beach and circled Dulé and his companions where they lay prone , and shook their fronds and squatted on their haunches and kicked their legs and tossed their heads and slapped palm to thigh , in order to rally them and send them off again ; pouring spirits and water into their faces to invigorate them , beating out a rhythm with their feet . |
| 55 | I rose from the table , went into the cell and flopped down on the hard wooden bed and was asleep almost immediately . |
| 56 | We returned from our walk aglow with wind-reddened cheeks , divested ourselves of boots and outer layers of wrapping and flopped down in the deep chairs of the sunset-lit lounge chatting , until David left at around 10 p.m . |
| 57 | He unpacked and put everything away immediately and strolled down to the canal . |
| 58 | They simply drove into Benghazi , headlamps blazing , and parked down near the waterfront . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | The five ancestors are generally regarded as the sole survivors of the Shaolin temple after it was sacked and burned down by the Ching emperor 's army . |