Example sentences of "she [verb] down to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and she , he , she goes down to the abortion centre right after and he dies ! |
| 2 | Once or twice when she crept down to the turn in the stairs to see if it was safe to go and get something to eat , she was scared back by the murmur of unfamiliar voices , and saw three or four bicycles parked in the hall , leaning together with their pedals tangled in each others ' spokes , forming an intricate barrier to outside . |
| 3 | She hopped down to the floor , but it seemed further away than she had expected and now suddenly it was rising up crazily to meet her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She moved down to the kerbside , smiling graciously as she elbowed her way through the crowd . |
| 6 | She sank down to the ground , hugging her knees and rocking herself back and forth to keep warm . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One of Aunt Tossie 's luxuries was an early breakfast in bed — later she came down to the dining room where she ate a second . |
| 9 | When she came down to the drawing room , Dada was looking particularly small , too . |
| 10 | The next time she came down to the village was after a day or two . |
| 11 | When he tried to upstage her she sauntered down to the front of the stage and such was her control over the audience now , he had to back off , otherwise it would have been he who looked ridiculous . |
| 12 | After a few moments she climbed down to the space station and ran off in the opposite direction to the shapechanger . |
| 13 | Her thinking grabbed her and she raced down to the beach , and followed the rocky shoreline looking for signs of him , but saw nothing . |
| 14 | She dug down to the water 's edge and the water flowed into it . |
| 15 | She walked down to the open market itself . |
| 16 | She stepped down to the level . |
| 17 | What was this man — she glanced down to the bottom of the page , to where his signature was scrawled — this man Charles Austin going on about ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She rang down to the reception , and asked tetchily whether she had been given the correct room number . |
| 20 | She reached down to the floor where her candle stood , and when she 'd groped for the matches , which proved , as always , astonishingly difficult to locate , she lit it . |
| 21 | As she heard him come back she refrained from looking out of her window , nor did she go down to the corridor outside his room when , a little later , she heard him groaning as he always did in the grip of a nightmare . |
| 22 | She went down to the front , or what had been the front , and stared out to sea . |
| 23 | She went down to the next floor and called Rosa Kenny . |
| 24 | Ah , yes — somewhere around ten-forty she went down to the kitchen for some milk , and found the room unduly cold . |
| 25 | Then she went down to the cancer shop and asked if she could help them . |
| 26 | When she went down to the kitchen eight mugs on the draining-board said that someone had washed up ; she was the last . |
| 27 | Thinking : Pat , where 's Pat ? she went down to the kitchen , and found Pat , with her jacket on , a scarf , and her bright scarlet canvas holdall . |
| 28 | When she went down to the sitting-room to pour tea for her mother , the latter was in one of her most waspish moods . |
| 29 | When later on she went down to the sea she felt almost as cheerful again as in pre-Andrée days . |
| 30 | She went down to the lobby to settle the bill so far for both their rooms , and then changed her mind and paid only for her own and the booze . |