Example sentences of "[vb past] down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray . |
| 2 | She got down into the hall . |
| 3 | Ten Trekkies got down on the floor to play this , some still wearing Federation anoraks , which seemed to be cheating somewhat . |
| 4 | She got down on the floor and ran her arm under the bookcase . |
| 5 | And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were . |
| 6 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 7 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 8 | Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead . |
| 9 | They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork . |
| 10 | Despite this , Junius soon got down to the business of casting aspersions against the King 's character . |
| 11 | The giant brick structures were laid during the earliest days of the industrial revolution in Manchester , several decades before London got down to the task of comprehensive sanitation for its citizens . |
| 12 | Then it shook itself , got down off the mushroom , and moved slowly away into the grass . |
| 13 | He got down off the cart to pick a leaf from a roadside bush , and hoisting himself back into his seat resumed his journey , sucking on the leaf as he started to explain . |
| 14 | Mr Bean got down from the cab , grinning happily . |
| 15 | He got down from the cab . |
| 16 | The driver got down from the cab and walked slowly down the platform and disappeared through a solid wooden door . |
| 17 | He got down from the wall and walked on . |
| 18 | In Bawiti , the main village of the oasis , Salah got down from the bus and waved us after him . |
| 19 | ‘ Christ , Piper , that 's all we need , the bloody Navy ! ’ burst out Taff as two sailors got down from the jeep and started to unload their gear . |
| 20 | There 'll be nobody in at this hour ! ’ he repeated loudly , to the men behind as he got down from the jeep . |
| 21 | She got down from the jeep , straightened her dress and headed back towards the barn . |
| 22 | He got down from the jeep and walked into the villa , his shirt crumpled , and his footsteps weary . |
| 23 | The young officer got down from the train and went into the station building . |
| 24 | Well they got down in the grass you see . |
| 25 | White doves fluttered down through the doorway and children swarmed in and out . |
| 26 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |
| 27 | ‘ Desperately , desperately ill ! ’ she said , over her shoulder , then swooped down to the dishwasher , picked up a handful of plates , and marched off towards a cupboard . |
| 28 | The rain softened the surface and showed the imprint of their short stay as they swooped down to the mirage of what had been their habitat . |
| 29 | Deposits laid down during the rifting phase are termed synrift sediments while those laid down on the margin once continental separation has occurred are termed postrift sediments . |
| 30 | The Commission made a provisional determination that the plaintiffs had failed to establish a claim according to the rules laid down under the statute . |