Example sentences of "she [vb past] down [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resting her head wearily against the hard banister rail , she fought down the momentary surge of panic . |
| 2 | She choked down the sudden lump in her throat , rejecting a surge of self-pity she had no need for . |
| 3 | She crashed down the four steps , ending up in a heap on the landing . |
| 4 | She gulped down the proffered glass of Coca-Cola quickly . |
| 5 | As she walked to the weighing room , she gulped down the three pills . |
| 6 | After the stale fug in the tiny cabin , she gulped down the clean sea air , the car window wide open . |
| 7 | She lifted down the big suitcase from the top of the wardrobe , and , placing it on the bed , began to fill it , folding the garments as carefully as Isabelle would have done . |
| 8 | She drove down the wide west London avenue . |
| 9 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |
| 10 | Out of the window , as she hastened down the spiral staircase , Mildred saw the fires which were being lit in the ruins of the old castle where the celebrations were always held . |
| 11 | That evening she turned down a prior supper engagement , pleading a headache . |
| 12 | She turned down The Fabulous Baker Boys , a film which made Michelle Pfeiffer an international superstar and an Oscar nominee , because ‘ I felt it was n't right for me ’ . |
| 13 | Shrugging , she turned down the right-hand one , looking for ‘ likely doors ’ . |
| 14 | As she walked down the wide stone steps to the ground floor her confusion was diverted by the sight of two men in their twenties , chatting together and keeping a watchful early evening eye over two three-year-olds playing hide and seek round the curve of the banisters . |
| 15 | She walked down the long red-carpeted aisle of St Paul 's Cathedral a commoner . |
| 16 | As she walked down the crazy-pavement paths to the lily pond , Constance was struck by the blackbirds hopping around in the sun . |
| 17 | She pulled down a bulky volume from the shelf beside her and thumbed through it . |
| 18 | Then , from a shelf in the pantry , she took down a large covered dish , sniffed at the contents , and , smiling now on the child , said , ‘ Nothing much goes rotten in here . |
| 19 | Forcing herself to be patient , she took down a leather-bound copy of Grimms ' Fairy Tales and opened the pages . |
| 20 | She looked down the long ride to where , at the distant foot of its slope , the lake shuddered in the wind . |
| 21 | He did not look up as she advanced down the long and beautiful room . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's none of my business , ’ she replied , gripping the solid wood grab-rails as she went down the five steps with their non-slip treads . |
| 23 | Then her hands began to shake so she put down the half-eaten cake , very aware that his face was full of emotion , belying the quietness of his voice . |
| 24 | Michelle was the only one on duty there , but she put down the latest James Herbert long enough to tell me that yes , they had sent for an Airborne messenger just after eleven , and that Anna kept asking if I 'd called . |
| 25 | She ran down the first flight of stairs , and then turned and dragged herself back to the flat . |
| 26 | Guiltily she ran down the bouncing shallow steps , jarring them as hard as she could to off-balance the last man on his feet . |
| 27 | In the dark , panic-stricken by what she 'd done , she ran down the wrong passage , towards the sea instead of towards the land , slipped and fell to her death on the rocks below . ’ |
| 28 | She had to blink back her tears before she opened the front door , and then she ran down the short tiled path , and , throwing back her shoulders and digging her hands into her pockets , strode down to the parade . |
| 29 | Hurriedly , she jotted down the last few words , and started back out , but it was too late . |
| 30 | Bina who never dreamed — Bina whose moods they all dismissed as ‘ adolescence ’ — Bina who they 'd trained not to let on what she really felt , who did n't even know what she did feel — that same Bina had a dream each night , and she wrote down every single word of it so that it would tell her how to be different , be real , really be . |