Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | have a kip at lunch time , did some work , came home and got smashed Went down about all |
| 2 | Since delivery only required one of us , I 'd undertaken to go down to Fraxilly while Mala stayed with the ship . |
| 3 | He 'd seen Caspar down at Mrs Wright 's , had n't he . |
| 4 | I was led into a dark room and told to lie face down on a mattress on the floor . |
| 5 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 6 | He turned to wash himeslf down at the sink , and it was minutes later when he and former girlfriend , Maxine Weblin , realised Rosie was dead . |
| 7 | He went straight over to Brian , saying , ‘ So , you want escape ? ’ and started raining blows down on him with a stick . |
| 8 | If that happened , or you started to get bogged down in an episode , you could always use the Doctor as a diversion . |
| 9 | Guido had stopped to gaze down at her . |
| 10 | It felt as if my whole world had come crashing down on me . |
| 11 | When the Gruagach had come storming down from the Northern Wastes and attacked Tara and stolen away the Wolfking 's son , Tara 's heir , the people of the half-world of the forest had vanished , afraid and timid . |
| 12 | It was not the first time Bill had felt let down by Mandy . |
| 13 | He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day . |
| 14 | The people I had helped to dream down from the heavens . |
| 15 | The child had landed face down with his shoulders and arms across the railings , and the wickedly sharp spikes had pierced his tiny body in several places , mercifully passing each side of his neck . |
| 16 | The contemporary academic debate among economists had become bogged down in a rather arid byway of marginal costing and subsidies , and provided little useful guidance on the substantive issues of the day . |
| 17 | We hereby inform the valiant and heroic nation of Iran that last night 50 invading Iraqi tanks which , by the will of God , had become bogged down in mud were attacked by the fighting Iranian forces ; all of them were destroyed and the invaders fled . |
| 18 | The directive had subsequently been sharply criticized by the parliamentary ombudsman , and the government eventually rescinded it , but Ninn-Hansen had refused to step down as Speaker over the issue . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , they have to hide the Cruise missiles somewhere , ’ I said , zipping up my fleece-lined leather jacket against the rain which had started coming down in ominous big spits . |
| 20 | She had meant to walk down to the sea today to greet it on her first Christmas here , her own sea , her own stretch of wild grey winter water . |
| 21 | The Council of the Zoological Society of London had planned to shut down at the end of September . |
| 22 | Her superiors in pastoral studies had , on the whole , been of the opinion it was not merely officious but often dangerous to move a drunk from the place he had chosen to lie down into one where he had not . |
| 23 | More than one champion had failed to get down in two from that spot . |