Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] down the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |
| 32 | He had , in a way , shown her the path , as Hansel did when he put down the pebbles which guided his sister and himself back home . |
| 33 | But when he put down the phone , he was wearing what Celia called his crisis face . |
| 34 | When he put down the phone , he said , " Really , sir , you make me feel that I 'm behaving like a suspect . " |
| 35 | When he put down the papers at last he looked abstracted . |