Example sentences of "down and [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he swooped down and landed on a road near Varadero Beach , right in the middle of evening rush-hour traffic . |
| 2 | Don Mini gave a signal and in five seconds Swan swooped down and landed on the tree . |
| 3 | I sat down and leant against the wall , trying to decide what to do . |
| 4 | The use of easily-obtained European woods helped to keep costs down and contributed to an individual and unique tone . |
| 5 | Both of us went down and rolled off the hard , wet pavement into the gutter , but it was me who cracked the back of his head en route and me who got a boot in the stomach which even my US Navy parka did little to cushion . |
| 6 | The cab came from a Massey-Ferguson 1200 and cost £600 , and a solid steel radiator surround from the same model was turned upside down and fitted to the new tractor . |
| 7 | The rambler roses in the garden beyond grew along chains which dipped up and down and swung in the wind between six foot high posts , and a row of strangely shaped lumps of yew , grown hugely out of proportion , ran from the north corner of the house . |
| 8 | Well , no the other day he said if I 'm really that bad you just tell me and I 'll go down and sleep on the sofa . |
| 9 | After gorging itself it would lie down and go into a digestive torpor , and could alternately eat and doze over a period of several weeks . |
| 10 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 11 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 12 | The first of these concentrates on Taligent 's native implementation , now firmly based on a version of the Carnegie Mellon University Mach kernel , which IBM has slimmed down and turned into a true micro-kernel implementation . |
| 13 | It seemed a long moment while they remained thus immobile and then the young woman put her head and shoulders down and rushed like an eight-year-old , knees doubling up and arms pounding . |
| 14 | She hoisted the baby on to her hip and dragging a chair close up to the television set , sat down and stared at the blank screen . |
| 15 | He sat down and stared at the gifts quite speechless . |
| 16 | She knelt down and stared at the smaller words below it . |
| 17 | Whole tribes of proud and even magnificent people have at times sat down and died for no other reason than that their ancient culture has been exposed , even briefly , to one that seems to belong to a superior order . |
| 18 | For actually glancing down and looking at a clock |
| 19 | More than any other comfort his delighted kisses in return soothed her and eventually she was able to put him down and go into the kitchen to speak to Teresa about the day 's duties . |
| 20 | After a while , the bedroom door opened and they heard Mother and the visitor come down and go into the front room of the house . |
| 21 | One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight . |
| 22 | Something on the ground caught his eye and he bent down and looked at a small print in the soft earth . |
| 23 | Now he knelt down and looked at the dead girl curiously . |
| 24 | Remembering a detail with sudden clarity , Charles knelt down and looked at the left-hand side of the front bumper . |
| 25 | Dickinson sat down and looked at the adjutant , appalled . |
| 26 | Now , you 've all been down and looked at the state of the playground below . |
| 27 | Yet it should have been better for , needing only to hit the 18th green with a sand wedge he went into a bunker , failed to get up and down and ended with a bogey five . |
| 28 | Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach . |
| 29 | If you go down and ask in a polite way , then you might get what you want . |
| 30 | This produced a laugh which unfortunately brought on such a fit of coughing that Wilson was obliged to put Pilade down and attend to the invalid as though she were still her maid . |