Example sentences of "down and [vb past] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian arrived , with his girlfriend and another friend , who seemed to realize that I needed to calm down and offered to walk around the building with me . |
| 2 | " He smells like barley rained down and left to rot in the fields . |
| 3 | The main point was , did she or did she not think that the whole ghastly superstructure should be brought down and got rid of , root and branch , once and for all ? |
| 4 | Richie took the James Braid putter out , laid the bag down and went to confer with Sir Bryan about the line of his putt . |
| 5 | I dusted myself down and went to talk with my boss . |
| 6 | She reached down and began tickling towards his groin , and he broke away . |
| 7 | We were both thrown down and began to roll across the deck , but I was on my feet first and climbed up into the sails , hand over hand . |
| 8 | Then she put her cup down and began to speak in a soft , sad , dreaming voice that seemed to weave a spell of silence in the room . |
| 9 | Some of the poems were written down and became known to the outside world before the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | Thornton was eventually smoothed down and persuaded to stay on condition that the paper find a Chairman at once — a reputable businessman whose name could be used instead of his . |
| 11 | Dexter 's toes suddenly flopped down and stayed glued to the floor . |
| 12 | The man bent down and tried to speak to them ; the twins smiled sweetly and returned to their game . |
| 13 | Eventually he tied it down and sat muttering about it being typical behaviour of suitcases and that they were not to be trusted . |
| 14 | As he stepped down and turned to kneel before the altar , he directed a swift , appraising glance at the ‘ all ’ . |
| 15 | As soon as they were amongst the shuttered houses of Edinburgh , Corbett slowed down and turned to grin at the pale , terrified face of Ranulf . |
| 16 | They sat down and started to look through the movie tapes , Zambia interjecting the odd question here and there . |