Example sentences of "down [conj] [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A DRINK-DRIVER mowed down and killed a young mother on her first night out since the birth of her son six months ago . |
| 2 | JOYRIDERS mowed down and killed a disabled woman in her invalid carriage yesterday . |
| 3 | A SPEEDING motor-cyclist who knocked down and killed a 73-year-old man was fined £2,000 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday . |
| 4 | Another door , covering the bars of the fire , could be let down and formed a useful ledge . |
| 5 | Springfield slid the aerial down and directed a relieved grin at the quizzical expressions on the faces of his watching companions . |
| 6 | He put the phone down and had a violent coughing fit . |
| 7 | He actually said to them , if you can find , you know , a hundred good men then I wo n't burn your city and then he put it down and down and down and had a good old bargain . |
| 8 | I never sat down and played the same thing twice . |
| 9 | He sat down and saw a bifurcated path , simmering with gold heat round and under the rising , spreading blue-black-green down-pointing vanes of a great pine , still widening where the frame interrupted its soaring . |
| 10 | I looked down and saw a giant freshwater prawn almost a foot long . |
| 11 | A little boy tugged at my skirt ; I looked down and saw a brown face with the sun on it , smiling . |
| 12 | Masklin looked down and saw the yellow truck roll to a halt . |
| 13 | Having , as I say , abandoned everything he had done , he sat down and wrote a six-part novel within a year which included a twenty-six day break in which he threw together and dictated The Gambler , itself not a small book nor a negligible one , to satisfy the terms of a contract he had made with a shyster publisher . |
| 14 | Finally , he sat down and wrote a long letter to Sybil Vane . |
| 15 | She had flattened the grass , burrowed down and made a cosy little nest for herself . |
| 16 | The General reached down and took the little bouquet . |
| 17 | ‘ It was exactly semi-retirement because I took all my gear down and demoed a good album 's worth of material . |
| 18 | Some , from lower viewpoints , gave glimpses of the faceted dome that covered the expanse of space ; others looked down and revealed the four tiny figures balanced a hundred metres above a vast , circular , grey plain . |
| 19 | to , to put reasons why that this does n't mean the it actually means more , and I think to a certain extent there may be justification , some people may have put their name down and meant the whole family |
| 20 | The fact that she eventually settled down and married an insignificant LAC pay clerk there on the staff at Group is one of life 's little mysteries . |
| 21 | Just in case , I bent down and told the joint-smoking Santa to get rid of it . |
| 22 | He made me put it down and began a long , fast conversation with the soldier . |
| 23 | Bella 's fingers reached down and began a slow upward movement on the inside of Johnny 's thigh , the long scarlet nails making a faint scratching sound on the material of his trousers . |
| 24 | down and felt the warm glow through his body . |
| 25 | Mahmoud quietened down and raised a fresh cup of coffee to his lips . |
| 26 | You fell down and slid a little way , did n't you ? |
| 27 | A huge hand reached down and put a little tray on the packed earth under the floor . |
| 28 | After a while Ollie jumped down and sat a few feet away . |
| 29 | The ball eluded Winterburn , and Ritchie , Oldham 's leading goalscorer , chested the ball down and crashed a fierce volley beyond Lukic . |
| 30 | There was a woman who was assaulted , the Turks from the restaurant came down and beat a single man outside the Moat Centre . |