Example sentences of "down and [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juanita sits in the kitchen and looks up with her embarrassed half-smile/half-laugh when I bend down and step inside . |
| 2 | So anything that can fall down and go faster as it falls . |
| 3 | So I says I 'll pop down and go inside to see what like it is . |
| 4 | The cottage lay back quite a long way from the path , but Virginia slowed down and stepped past it with quick , light steps . |
| 5 | During the ‘ Killing Times ’ of the 1880s , when the Covenanters were being hunted down and killed mercilessly , the father fled with his family to Ireland , where they stayed for several years , probably until after James II and VII was deposed in 1688 . |
| 6 | We 've got to recognise , if there was no following policy , any thief or drunk driver only has to put their toe down and drive away at speed , comfortable that police wo n't follow them and that is far more dangerous in the long run for the public . |
| 7 | But once you 've gone down and turned left then turned right and gone ahead |
| 8 | I sat down and read further . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's purely routine , madam , ’ began Morse , sitting down and sinking far too far into an antiquated , unsprung settee . |
| 10 | He put the phone down and stared coolly at Elinor . |
| 11 | And the miserable hotchpotch of confused ideas and pressures was quietly buried in the depths of her mind , just as a wilderness of plants dies down and goes underground for the winter . |
| 12 | Follow the track down and go straight on to a modern farm track . |
| 13 | Go down , catch the swing and go up on the lift , go left and collect the shield , go right and up when you reach the right-hand wall , go left and fly up the pipe , go right and fall down the gap , then go left and collect the weight and throw it onto the button to your right , go up on the lift , right , up and left on the lift , fly up past the spikes and collect a weight , fall down and go right under the spikes , throw the weight on the button , go up on the lift , up , go left when you can and fall down to collect the weight . |
| 14 | Jump down and go right , cross the river on the cake and go up on the platforms , collect the cocoa bean at the top of the platforms , go back down the platforms , go left across the river , jump up on the sherbet fountain and collect the blue object above you , go straight left along the platforms and throw the blue object at the button to start the lift , go up on the lifts and collect the cocoa bean , go down , left , down , left across the rivers and into the cup to complete the level . |
| 15 | Fall down and go right on the dodgems , go up and right through the wall , go down and collect the scroll , go up and push the crate right off the platform , fall down and push the crate left off the platform , fall down and push the crate right off the platform , push it left off the next platform , then right and left twice , jump on the big wheel on your right , jump off and at the bottom of the screen go right , collect the arrow , go left and up , go right and climb up on the platforms , go left and collect the star , fly right , up and right , push the crate right off the platform , push it left onto the button , go left , down and collect the star . |
| 16 | She put her hand down and called Much , who came and pressed his body , trembling and filthy , against her legs , between her and the sinking fire . |
| 17 | For a great many people , Europe is fine for business and fine for holidays because the sun shines and the booze is cheap , but Germans are still chaps whom we beat in wars , and the French still let you down and think only of themselves . |
| 18 | Tony sat down and looked all around him . |
| 19 | There was a certain reassurance in hearing the calm voice three thousand miles away scrawl the message down and ask politely : ‘ May I say who — ? |
| 20 | But Mills adds : ‘ We have been let down and treated badly . |
| 21 | Perdita was settling down and had even hit a respectable forehand which only just missed the goal when Alejandro , out of some devilry , swopped one of his sons and a cousin for Luke and Angel . |
| 22 | group you did n't , if you 'd said no there , I just threw it down and said well , you 'd better think of another one . |
| 23 | Does he come down and visit quite a lot ? |
| 24 | She put her cup down and laughed softly and her eyes shone like pale stones under water . |
| 25 | She had admonished him before they left the hotel to drink no more than one glass , and his brother , Chuck , who was sipping his own wine confidently without the restraint of any such embargo , looked down and laughed good-naturedly at his indecision . |
| 26 | It was the time of wooden pit props and er much kneeling and laying down and hacking away at the coal with picks and there was no mining machinery as we know it now . |
| 27 | Ten minutes later he was down and seated across from a young duty captain as they travelled the fast-link that connected the City to the spaceport . |
| 28 | He put his foot down and roared away . |
| 29 | He crouched down and braked heavily . |
| 30 | As the sea cuts into the land , the cliff collapses and the collapsed material is broken down and transported away , there results the slow development of a wavecut platform . |