Example sentences of "then he [vb past] down " in BNC.

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1 Then he looked down at the enormous cake .
2 Then he looked down at her and the similarity was gone .
3 Then he looked down .
4 Wang Sau-leyan smiled and looked about him , his broad face momentarily the image of his father 's when he was younger , then he looked down .
5 Then he looked down at Dr Ali .
6 Then he looked down at his feet .
7 His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again .
8 Ellwood stayed still for a while , letting the priest set up his tackle and make a couple of casts , then he slithered down to the path .
9 On the fateful night he ascended the stairs , passed through the barrier and greeted the porter on duty and then he walked down onto the track .
10 Then he wrote down what he expected would happen in the ensuing month with respect to each key task and what he was going to do about it , asked questions about policy , and commented on long-term opportunities , threats , and needs .
11 Then he ran down the wooden stair , through the house , out to the lower lawn .
12 Then he laid down his challenge : essentially , he announced , ‘ I am not a van Gogh . ’
13 Then he laid down his glass .
14 Then he stared down at the floor , gathering together the threads of the day .
15 Then he swooped down and landed on a road near Varadero Beach , right in the middle of evening rush-hour traffic .
16 Then he bedded down . ’
17 Every now and then he glanced down at her .
18 Then he glanced down into his glass .
19 And then he glanced down at his watch .
20 Then he got down from his chair and went to stand by Hepzibah .
21 Anyway , he waffled on for a little while about everything that did n't matter and then … ’ she swallowed ‘ … then he got down to it and told me about everything that did . ’
22 Then he came down to — ’ the boy gulped — ‘ to give me my medicine . ’
23 Then he lay down again carefully , putting his hand and arm on the far side of the body and easing himself down so that he was partly lying on Patrick , his trunk upon his trunk , his legs upon his legs , and , as he supported himself on his arms , his face just above the skeleton face .
24 Then he lay down on her , his weight sinking her in the bed as if in sand .
25 Then he lay down beside her , and drew her gently into his arms .
26 Then he dropped down into the port hull .
27 Then he went down on the floor at Christine 's feet .
28 Then he went down on the ground on his hands and knees , like a baby .
29 He came up , the water around him red from his blood , then he went down again , for ever .
30 Then he went down in this loose scrum , should n't have been there , but he was always a bit of a hero , and I put my foot in looking for the ball and there he was .
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