Example sentences of "was [verb] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 2 | He was kneeling down by the wall holding out his hand to me . |
| 3 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 4 | The plan was to go down to the south coast and camp . |
| 5 | He was to go down to the Supersight factory for some practice with Harley and was then to go with him to a couple of the Continental tournaments . ’ |
| 6 | Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling . |
| 7 | Three weeks later , on the day I became Prime Minister , my first impulse was to sit down in the study which had been Harold 's and write him a letter of appreciation and grateful thanks . |
| 8 | Her initial action on reaching her room , however , was to sit down by the telephone and to try and concentrate her attention on what she should do now . |
| 9 | She was gazing down at the town and smiling her private , remembering smile . |
| 10 | Court Four of the Royal Courts of Justice in London was packed with judges and barristers to hear the support lent to Lord Lane , who announced in February that he was stepping down at the age of 73 , 18 months before the compulsory retirement age for judges . |
| 11 | Ahead there was space , but her foot was pressed down to the floor and the car would n't go any faster . |
| 12 | But a gate was broken down in the frustration and many spectators , mostly from Cardiff , got in without paying . |
| 13 | As his hand was crushed down onto the red-hot ring again , Connelly 's body jerked convulsively and so savagely that the man holding him up was almost knocked off balance , but he stood his ground while his companion pressed down on the limb . |
| 14 | She was walking down towards the ferry with Mr Clark and found the way blocked by a stationary train of wagons . |
| 15 | who was walking down to the telephone kiosk and asked all the questions about the area so that I |
| 16 | But uncle was to creep down in the night and abuse the little girl he was giving shelter to . |
| 17 | The cassock had a thin hood , held in place over the attendant 's head and face by what looked like the brim from an old and worn red hat ; it was squeezed down over the attendant 's head , the top of the hood showing through where the hat 's crown should have been . |
| 18 | The lift doors closed across his exclamation of relief and frustration and he was carried down to the ground floor . |
| 19 | I was carried down to the ambulance and taken to a Kendal hospital . |
| 20 | He glanced from time to time out of the window , as if to see what was happening down at the jetty . |
| 21 | The cheapest , the Pocket Gem , worked well but was let down by the software . |
| 22 | Well I tried and then I was let down by the group . |
| 23 | The doctor was pledged to secrecy , and an iron curtain of security was rung down on the headquarters lest news of the new commander 's prostration further demoralise the men with their backs to the Meuse . |
| 24 | Her left hand was curled down under the hem of her skirt , which she 'd pulled up on that side . |
| 25 | The youngest , perhaps only eight , was bowed down under the weight of an M-16 rifle . |
| 26 | He 'd probably never been to Brixton before — I could tell that from the way he was sinking down in the back of Armstrong the farther along Effra Road we got . |
| 27 | The government 's response to mounting criticism was to crack down on the principal advocates of reform . |
| 28 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 29 | He was looking down at the pavement outside the house . |
| 30 | It must have been an automatic reaction because he was looking down at the motionless figure and shouting , ‘ Harriet ! ’ |