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Example sentences of "down and [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Don Mini gave a signal and in five seconds Swan swooped down and landed on the tree .
2	I sat down and leant against the wall , trying to decide what to do .
3	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 .
4	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 .
5	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 .
6	He sat down and stared at the gifts quite speechless .
7	She knelt down and stared at the smaller words below it .
8	Now he knelt down and looked at the dead girl curiously .
9	Remembering a detail with sudden clarity , Charles knelt down and looked at the left-hand side of the front bumper .
10	Dickinson sat down and looked at the adjutant , appalled .
11	Now , you 've all been down and looked at the state of the playground below .
12	‘ I sat down and said to the doctor ‘ So I have cancer ’ and he said ‘ Yes ’ .
13	Margaret Stanhope put down the telephone , stood up , smoothed her tight skirt down and knocked on the door next to her desk .
14	The Captain sat down and reached for the telephone .
15	With a smile he put the rifle down and reached for the next in the stack at his side .
16	She placed the receiver down and reached to the table top , picking up the silenced gun and holding it gently in both hands .
17	There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television .
18	Resignedly he put his quill down and went to the bedroom .
19	Adam put the phone down and went to the front door .
20	There was no butter around so I jumped down and went to the living room .
21	A sudden sharp ring at the doorbell made Shelley 's decision for her , as they sprang apart , and she smoothed her uniform down and went to the reception desk to see who wanted her .
22	When at last she put the receiver down and went into the kitchen she found that Edward had unpacked the shopping .
23	I knelt down and went through the dead man 's clothing .
24	Subsequently , the floods came down and went over the whole bridge , topping the rails , and it was a tribute to the efficiency of both its design and erection that the bridge withstood this successfully .
25	But still the urge to express her feelings tormented her and at last , in defiance of that dislike she had felt on their last meeting , she sat down and wrote to the person to whom she had once been most close , to Mrs Browning .
26	You bent down and wrote in the sand
27	As the policeman stepped down and walked to the rear of the lorry Billy turned to Freddie and shook his head slowly .
28	made one quick phone call , then took the lift down and walked across the road from New Scotland Yard to the little café which was , as usual , full of workmen engaged in rebuilding the offices in the area .
29	The cat jumped down and walked across the room .
30	That 'll be alright so cos he slid his my brief case and er I got all the way home , no problem at all , I 'd got newspaper under the back , so it did n't scratch the back when I come to come down Mill Road this lorry 's go , I mean I got the tail gate up and er I sort of looked in the mirror , I thought oh my goodness my tail gate , I could hear it so and I braked a bit sharp and that slid down and scratched along the dash board !