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 . |
24 | and I reached down to er |
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 . |