Example sentences of "she [verb] down [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , she goes down with a friend . |
| 2 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 3 | At first she managed from their home up in Yorkshire ; later , as the pace grew more hectic , she moved down to a suite at the Adelaide in London . |
| 4 | Marion 's legs collapsed under her ; she sank down on a rock , and wept . |
| 5 | She sank down into a chair and watched as Craig knelt before the fire , building it back into a glowing warmth . |
| 6 | When the carriage was out of sight , she sank down into a chair and put her hands over her face . |
| 7 | As she flopped down in a corner seat , Constance looked at the man pushing her case on to the rack opposite . |
| 8 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 9 | She says a woman on an earlier expedition had snow blindness and as soon as she came down to a lower altitude , she was put on a drip and recovered in a few days . |
| 10 | When she first came she ate so much so often that I thought she had worms , but she settled down to a very moderate appetite , so the worming tablet the vet . |
| 11 | She looked down at a letter on the table in front of her , collecting her thoughts . |
| 12 | She looked down on a motionless gathering of Mercedes , BMWs , a Range Rover and the occasional Rolls . |
| 13 | She looked down with a fear that was also a pleasure at his stained , scarred hand . |
| 14 | We sat on the hall floor , cross-legged , in our forms , with our form-mistress beside us , so as the Headmistress stood on the platform , she looked down upon a sea of faces , rows and rows of black-stockinged legs , and a long line of mistresses sitting on their chairs . |
| 15 | And when she went down for a cup of tea , her mother mentioned casually that Parr had gone to Belfast , not to England as expected , although she did not know why . |
| 16 | But she went down like a sack of spuds and cracked her head open . |
| 17 | But Dreadnought , let alone all her other weak places , had been holed amidships by a baulk of timber , and before long the water poured into her with a sound like a sigh and she went down in a few seconds . |
| 18 | At last she wound down like an old-fashioned gramophone and rolled onto her back on the grass feeling exhausted . |
| 19 | At first people were suspicious ; they could not understand why she was so interested in these details , which she wrote down in a schoolbook . |
| 20 | She ran and ran but could not see a house anywhere , so she sat down under a flower to rest . |
| 21 | She sat down without a word and shook her head when Whitlock asked if she wanted coffee . |
| 22 | The 50-year-old child killer suffered a black eye , bruises and minor cuts as she sat down for a meal at Cookham Wood jail in Kent . |
| 23 | Mr Whinnett said : ‘ Joanna was in a state of pure terror and , although she sat down for a while , she most certainly did not sleep . ’ |
| 24 | When she went into the rest room she sat down for a minute while waiting for Peggy to come out of the lavatory . |
| 25 | When Grace Farrier rose from the table , the men rose with her , and when , a few minutes later , she entered the drawing room she sat down with a sigh , for she was wondering how long Aunt Nessy 's stay would be this time . |
| 26 | She sat down on a chair in the hall beside the telephone . |
| 27 | She sat down on a boulder and put her head in her hands . |
| 28 | She sat down on a chair and held the boy with one arm . |
| 29 | When Nancy was out in the street again , she sat down on a door-step , and for a few minutes seemed unable to move . |
| 30 | Her knees were weak , and she sat down on a chair the press rep brought over for her ; she could not have trusted her legs to walk over to it . |