Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah , yes , ’ Farouk cut in and glanced down at the notepad in front of him . |
| 2 | Only the plain-clothes thugs of the security police , who can easily be told by their well-fed oafishness , their training shoes and anoraks , go out of their way to move close in and stare down at anyone writing . |
| 3 | Well We came in one morning , the electrician and I , about five instead of seven , because we 'd done and er we used to nip in and kip down with the horses for ten minutes which was forbidden , to sleep in the colliery . |
| 4 | as if in a trance , Vincent got in and sat down beside him . |
| 5 | A man came in and sat down in the seat opposite him . |
| 6 | They went in and sat down by the fire . |
| 7 | Their leader had quiet words with the cardinal , who smiled , clapped his hands , and a green baize-covered table and two chairs were brought in and set down in the middle of the hall . |
| 8 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 9 | He had his back to me , so I just sneaked in and hid down by the side of the dresser . |
| 10 | Have everything brought in and taken down to the cellar . |
| 11 | Northern prop Roy Powell 's attempt to kick the ball dead miscued , allowing Ropati to dash through and touch down beneath the posts . |
| 12 | Someone kicked his washing-bag over and stared down at the spilled shirt sleeve , the maroon-edged handkerchief . |
| 13 | the cherry and whites pack bulldozed their way to the line and sure enough after lots of huff and puff pushed over and touched down for try number three … |
| 14 | The farmer and I went over and gazed down at a circular black object about half an inch across floating on the surface of the milk . |
| 15 | Julius strolled over and looked down at the quietly flowing water . |
| 16 | He leaned over and looked down at me . |
| 17 | On one occasion we were lying alongside a pipe-laying barge in a remote anchorage with a six feet swell grinding Venturous against the chain secured tyre fenders when the superintendent of the large leaned over and shouted down to me . |
| 18 | She went over and crouched down before her chair , so that their faces were level . |
| 19 | The burly bruiser got up , carried his toddy over and sat down opposite the bearded man , who listened to him muttering , then gave him a silver coin . |
| 20 | At another point , he came over and sat down at the table with them . |
| 21 | For the benefit of the conductor , a short length of cord was spliced on and hung down over each doorway . |
| 22 | This was because , when her long beautiful legs were high in the air , her yellow garter flew off and fell down to the men below . |
| 23 | Directed by Alston , the screaming ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ turned off and shot down through the narrow side streets of the Arab quarter . |
| 24 | So we were off er after that we were off and landed down in erm Bishop 's Wharf er in the woods there and we , the next morning we were off down to Gosport and we were embarked on the ships there and er landed in Normandy at the beach it was . |
| 25 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 26 | The enemy had seen him : streams of light burst against the rocks , chunks of which flew off and rained down on Defries . |
| 27 | Owen and Georgiades went a little way off and squatted down beneath the trees to wait . |
| 28 | He turned the fire off and sat down on the settee , looking at the woman all the while . |
| 29 | " We can go up under Wandsworth Bridge as far as the Fina Oil Depot and then switch off and drift down with the tide . " |
| 30 | I managed to get my seat belt off and ducked down in the seat to get out of range of the gunshots . ’ |