Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] down " in BNC.

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1 Soon , the spaceship left Earth , and everyone looked down at the burning planet .
2 Eventually , as in most family crises , the initial shock wore off , and everyone simmered down .
3 The one you 're walking out with , the one Gazzer and me saw down the prom . ’
4 High on a mountain we paused and I looked down on Lough Nafooey , a lake lying far below us .
5 The second I walked off the set , a wave of pain hit me and I looked down at my grazed shins and one swollen knee .
6 But Robin-Anne did not react , and I looked down to see that she was not watching for the new day , but was crying .
7 But then they twitched again and I looked down to see , just above the sill , the curls and bright blue eyes of a snub-nosed child .
8 And you know this time when I went on a plane and I looked down , I was n't saying it to Ben
9 We flew above the skeletal radio mast and I stared down at the row of huge houses .
10 It was difficult to talk with the engine going , and I stared down through fifty or sixty feet of water to patches of pale rock starred black with sea-urchins .
11 K. R. I saw a fellow having an epileptic fit and I got down to hold him while he kicked out .
12 Doug Wimbish started playing harmonics on that funny Guild bass ( the rubber-stringed Ashbory model — Ed ) and I got down to a really quiet moment , and suddenly Phil just surprised the hell out of us with this keyboard patch !
13 I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one .
14 Aye er the when I was I got better and I got down to and there was a fella come to look and see me .
15 And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were .
16 And I wrote down , that they were on a doing Anthems of the Nations .
17 The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor .
18 ‘ There was no sign to say the drain was uncovered and I fell down it , cutting my leg and ankle and ruining my shoes , socks and slacks , ’ he writes .
19 and I went into the kitchen and I fell down , first time in my life , I 've never passed out , not
20 I 've seen this fella on the back of the bus with his bird and that and I walked down and was sitting by them and he was tooting gear , y'know , behind the back seat like that and he threw a load of gear over to me and said : ‘ Here , d' you want some of this ? ’ , y'know , monging , off his head , like .
21 In early 1981 , the Israelis had staged an air raid against the Rashidiyeh Palestinian camp — where Mrs Zamzam had her home — and I drove down to southern Lebanon from Beirut to report on the attack .
22 Derek and I drove down there and shut off the whole barn , preventing all means of getting in or out .
23 Susan and I sauntered down the aisle and took seats a few rows back .
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25 Having agreed that this was a good idea , David and I went down to a pub called The Three Tuns , which is in Beckenham High Street .
26 I realised things might not be the same nowadays so , ten days before the conference , my assistant Joanne and I went down to Covent Garden ( which is now at Nine Elms ) and had a trial run .
27 It was early morning and I went down to answer a bang on the front door of Dad 's house .
28 So Ron and I went down to Broadlands , the country house on the Test at Romsey which had once belonged to Lord Palmerston and was later left to Edwina Mountbatten , the admiral 's wife .
29 I 'd bought two bottles of cider and I went down my friend 's house and I had two neat vodkas and two vodka-and-limes and I got drunk .
30 And I went down to this bird 's down by the library two weeks ago and this same fella came in with a gram and he was like that , giving out big smokes .
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