Example sentences of "then he [vb past] down the " in BNC.
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1 | Then he ran down the wooden stair , through the house , out to the lower lawn . |
2 | Then he pulled down the oven door , smelt the sweet , fatty smell of the meat and knew that it was probably this very fact that accounted for his decision to go through with the business . |
3 | Then he pulled down the sheet , which was all the bedclothes she had needed on that warm night , and she lay naked before him . |
4 | Then he put down the knife and took the sticky thing in his fingers and started very slowly to eat it . |
5 | Then he put down the phone and glanced once more at the fingerprints beneath the microscope . |
6 | ’ Then he put down the phone before the number could be traced . |