Example sentences of "then [vb past] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Desperately , desperately ill ! ’ she said , over her shoulder , then swooped down to the dishwasher , picked up a handful of plates , and marched off towards a cupboard . |
| 2 | Fair-haired Jews from Moscow and Leningrad mingled with olive-skinned Georgians to read the Cyrillic slogans welcoming them and then sank down in rows of plastic chairs or gazed at the panoramic photograph of Jerusalem covering an entire wall . |
| 3 | She helped him up on to the seat , then sagged down beside him , forearms resting on her knees , head bent , dizzy from the exertion . |
| 4 | He paused for a while to compose himself then staggered down to the porter 's lodge . |
| 5 | Bending his head , he brushed her lips with his mouth , then moved down to her breasts , bent to take one small , tight nipple between cool , hard lips , his tongue circling hungrily , sucking with growing pressure . |
| 6 | I helped the girls to wash some of the sherds and then wandered down to my favourite spot by the river . |
| 7 | She picked a mixed posy of flowers and put them in the small basket she was carrying , and then wandered down through the orchard . |
| 8 | Too early to know , say officials , and anyway that question really has a different target : it was the press and Wall Street that got euphoric in the early days of war , and then came down with a bump , not the administration . |
| 9 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 10 | I went to change money , then strolled down to the small port to talk to the boat owners about getting to Amantani . |
| 11 | Her hands flew up in horror then slammed down on the steering wheel . |
| 12 | Blake apparently broke one of the cast-iron sections of the frame , creating a space through which he could crawl , and then dropped down to the ground below , a distance of 22 feet , which was broken by the roof of a covered passageway . |
| 13 | Carrington looked at Talbot and shook his head , then dropped down to the sea-bed in front of the nose cone . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , Jesus wept , ’ I said , snapped a last picture , then ducked down in momentary expectation of the windscreen shattering into a million bright scraps . |
| 15 | Karen pulled out of John 's arms then climbed down into the cabin . |
| 16 | I then bicycled down to the Schools — sat down in my place . |
| 17 | After a couple of minutes he gave up the attempt , left the tool box by the cottage wall and walked to the edge of the cliff then slithered down to the beach . |
| 18 | Whitlock noticed the holster affixed to the guard 's belt , then glanced down at the leashed Doberman sitting obediently beside him . |
| 19 | He said this quite casually , then stepped down from the pulpit and made his way to the centre of the altar once more . |
| 20 | Curtis sighed with regret , then grinned down at Grant and Pam . |
| 21 | The child looked up at him , smiled at him , then settled down into the bed . |
| 22 | After a pub lunch we did a bit outside the car-park mortuary and then settled down with the telephone to record some attempts to buy a coffin , one of which resulted in agreement , which was the last thing we needed at the time , although it came in very handy later . |
| 23 | Ignoring her , he looked through a small pile of paperbacks on the bedside table then settled down with the latest Ken Follett . |
| 24 | We watched them go and then settled down to some serious fly fishing , ending the day with four nice fish weighing 3lb . |
| 25 | The match then settled down to a midfield battle , with neither side risking any mistakes . |
| 26 | I slowly closed the cupboard door and then settled down in my bed . |
| 27 | We spent the whole morning climbing the steep , hard ice in the couloir 's depths , so were somewhat dismayed when two figures skiied up to the base of the couloir , raced up to and past us , virtually dispensing with runners and belays , and then abseiled down from the top of the hard climbing at one third height , passing us again . |
| 28 | ‘ More than likely , ’ Mauer replied , then squatted down beside the body . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , we 're making a film , ’ she replied in French , then squatted down in front of them , her hands resting lightly on their shoulders . |
| 30 | Before that though , we 're going to get a huge fretsaw and cut along the borders of Essex and Suffolk and then saw down from The Wash to meet the other line . |