Example sentences of "down and [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never sat down and played the same thing twice . |
| 2 | Masklin looked down and saw the yellow truck roll to a halt . |
| 3 | The General reached down and took the little bouquet . |
| 4 | Some , from lower viewpoints , gave glimpses of the faceted dome that covered the expanse of space ; others looked down and revealed the four tiny figures balanced a hundred metres above a vast , circular , grey plain . |
| 5 | to , to put reasons why that this does n't mean the it actually means more , and I think to a certain extent there may be justification , some people may have put their name down and meant the whole family |
| 6 | Just in case , I bent down and told the joint-smoking Santa to get rid of it . |
| 7 | down and felt the warm glow through his body . |
| 8 | She bent down and patted the silky black head . |
| 9 | He bent down and stroked the shining plumage of a large bird that lay at his feet , trussed up with creepers . |
| 10 | Adam leaned down and stroked the pale ginger fur ; the cat curled up against his feet and went to sleep . |
| 11 | He bent his head down and gave the little hedgehog a big wet lick right on the nose . |
| 12 | Fred Clasper had shouted himself hoarse in his frenzied efforts to persuade the vociferous gathering of several thousand employees from the strike-bound Merseyside vehicle plant to continue the strike until management climbed down and re-instated the sacked shop steward . |
| 13 | She bent down and picked the whole thing up and slammed it back . |
| 14 | The three of them sat down and watched the fantastic firework display on the airfield that they had caused . |
| 15 | George sat down and watched the flickering images in front of him . |
| 16 | With an impish glint of mischief in her eye the Muse of History looked down and watched the American Marines assault Grenada . |