Example sentences of "he [vb past] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | But Gregory , he came down to the er to the base , and then I went out , you see and er er he he was back at the base whil whil whilst this was going on . |
| 32 | He came down into the cellar and was awarded a pint and we all seemed to be enjoying ourselves when , once more , there was a banging on the door . |
| 33 | He came down from the knoll and seemed to be searching for somebody . |
| 34 | He might have been listening to Moses when he came down from the mountain . |
| 35 | Then at the appropriate moment , he unfurled a battered black umbrella , shielding his camera as he came down from the car . |
| 36 | In 565 he came down from the islands to try and convert a Pictish king . |
| 37 | It sounded like a question , but he had no intention of waiting for her answer , as he dropped down on the bed beside her , lacing his fingers through her lustrous brunette tresses , controlling the movement of her head so she could not escape the seductive power of his mouth as he took her unwilling lips with practised artistry . |
| 38 | Then he dropped down into the port hull . |
| 39 | Something was not quite right , so without hesitation he dropped down onto the deck . |
| 40 | He drove down to the paper 's office and presented a lamb , killed the night before , to the editor . |
| 41 | He drove down to the beach , but did not park near Pepe 's . |
| 42 | Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator . |
| 43 | The horse soared through the foul-smellimg smoke and the General saw a bayonet reach towards the animal 's belly , but he slashed down with the sword , knocking the bayonet aside , and suddenly the horse had landed safely beyond the furniture and was running free of the smoke . |
| 44 | ‘ I thought you were someone else , ’ explained Endill as he climbed down to the ground . |
| 45 | In spite of the headset that he wore for the flight , his ears were still ringing when he climbed down from the helicopter . |
| 46 | He climbed down from the litter and the Assyrian conducted him not to the little courtyard but through the house to an upper room , whose high windows faced north to catch the wind . |
| 47 | He climbed down from the motorcar onto a bright blue carpet . |
| 48 | Other miscellaneous missiles rained in on him as he clambered down from the improvised platform with the help of his small band of left-wing brothers . |
| 49 | The clan held back politely as he swaggered down after the others into the sheltered hollow . |
| 50 | He pressed down on the cradle , waited a moment then dialled again . |
| 51 | Ellwood stayed still for a while , letting the priest set up his tackle and make a couple of casts , then he slithered down to the path . |
| 52 | On the fateful night he ascended the stairs , passed through the barrier and greeted the porter on duty and then he walked down onto the track . |
| 53 | In the morning , having rectified the recorder fault , he walked down towards the station to look for a new location . |
| 54 | He walked down to the next floor where two men sat working at desks facing each other . |
| 55 | He walked down to the end . |
| 56 | Peter watched him as he walked down to the lych gate . |
| 57 | He walked down to the Redmond house with Anne to collect Sarah and to say goodbye to the Redmonds . |
| 58 | It was a shed hand actually , he did n't , was n't responsible for cash although he helped the cashier and er , I well remember this erm in those days the conductor used to either run into depot with the bus or he 'd get relief on the Cornhill , he walked down to the depot carrying his cash in his cash bag and then he 'd sit in the paying in room and he 'd laboriously cam carried out his cash , piling the pennies into stacks , the ha'pennies , the tokens , the sixpences , every denomination . |
| 59 | He walked down to the tail and pressed his hands on the rudder , wet with morning mist . |
| 60 | Ellen twisted away and Sweetman laughed at her obvious discomfiture , then , as coolly as though he owned Wavebreaker , he stepped down into the central cockpit where he first brushed at , then sat on , one of the white cushioned seats by the ship 's wheel . |