Example sentences of "he [verb] down in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howard ca n't help laughing to himself as he goes down in the lift . |
| 2 | Likeable , cordial , he sits down in a chair facing her husband and herself and proceeds to converse with them . |
| 3 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 4 | So this is how it 's going to be , thinks Howard , as he rides down in the lift again . |
| 5 | He got to his feet in one sinuous movement , stretching hugely , his arms above his head , before he sank down in the chair opposite . |
| 6 | I saw him play on Sunday and to be perfectly honest had he sat down in the middle of the field I reckon he 'd have had a bigger influence on the game . |
| 7 | He knelt down in the constricted space . |
| 8 | Half way through his super-human effort his foot slipped and in mid-launch he came down in an uncoordinated heap just outside the throwing circle . |
| 9 | Me father was a miner he worked down in the Town , |
| 10 | He squatted down in the straw looking at the foal , and the foal looked back at him , indignant , bright-eyed , quivering with life . |
| 11 | On National day John Kempton also had a runner at Worcester — Three Dons in a novice hurdle — and opted to take the ride there : having duly won , he settled down in the jockeys ' changing room to watch the National on television , safe in the knowledge that his father Jack was at Liverpool to supervise Foinavon 's forlorn attempt . |
| 12 | Emily ignored him and he slumped down in a chair , trying to catch her eye . |
| 13 | Cupping his hands round his mouth , he called down in a loud whisper . |
| 14 | Lewis asked himself this question as he went down in the lift and crossed the arrivals hall of Terminal Two to await the exodus from Customs . |
| 15 | Beating a similarly ornamented one-sided drum with a fur-covered stick , the shaman chanted and danced with increasing frenzy until he fell down in a trance . |
| 16 | There was a moment during the shooting of Midnight Cowboy when Dustin gave so much energy to the character 's cough that he fell down in the street vomiting . |
| 17 | Walsh warned : ‘ James has been unstoppable this season since he trimmed down in the summer from 22 stone to a mere 18 . |
| 18 | Walsh warned : ‘ James has been unstoppable this season since he trimmed down in the summer from 22 stone to a mere 18 . |
| 19 | Finally he lay down in the snow and determined to die , for his stamina had failed him and he had not found the Dwarves ; and he did not want to go back to the life of killing he had led . |
| 20 | He looked down in a sudden panic . |
| 21 | He looked down in the hole and he saw Mossycop in his uniform . |
| 22 | ‘ But why should he come down in the dead of night ? ’ |
| 23 | He said down in an armchair and picked up a magazine . |
| 24 | Of a sudden he sat down in a chair and Joe , looking at him , had a strange thought , for his mind was saying that if men could cry , Martin would be crying now . |
| 25 | He sat down in a vacant chair and at once the younger cadet hurried to serve him with tea from a spotless samovar . |
| 26 | He sat down in the doorway and inspected his lacerated feet . |
| 27 | He sat down in the big easy-chair beside the kitchen range , took me on his knee and read me a story . |
| 28 | He sat down in the living room into which she ushered him and observed , ‘ You 've taken down the decorations . ’ |
| 29 | He hesitated for a moment as to what to do ; then looking again at the woman at the table , who was now smiling at him , he sat down in the chair , and for the next ten minutes he listened to the banter between the two of them . |
| 30 | He sat down in the deck chair , loosened his collar and tie , then lay back and looked up into the dark coolness of the oak branches . |