Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] down " in BNC.
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| 31 | As Magee watched she tottered down the steps and wandered off down Duncannon Street in the direction of the Strand . |
| 32 | As the train thundered over a set of points he steadied himself against her seat for a moment , then wandered off down the aisle . |
| 33 | He checked that she was all right , then told her he 'd be back in a while and wandered off down the aisle . |
| 34 | Walking back down the hill by hole 17 the pockets of rough grass left by the edge had common spotted and pyramidal orchids together with yellow rattle , quaking grass and other chalk grassland flowers . |
| 35 | Walking back down the field the cruel injustice of the thing bore down on me increasingly . |
| 36 | In fact , he did begin to run , but then he stopped , abruptly , right in the entrance , turned round , and peered back down the tunnel . |
| 37 | The three of them had come back down the tunnel to the entrance , with the man pushing Nona in front of him as a hostage . |
| 38 | This perfidious inner reaction drove her into ferocious silence as they headed back down the coast again , berating her stupidity as she watched the lush green hills glide by . |
| 39 | As he moved back down the short landing toward the bathroom , Loren 's raised voice came to him again . |
| 40 | yeah , but Co-Op 's dropped back down ai n't it , to forty one |
| 41 | Leeds charged back down the M62 still mouthing off at the injustice of defeat . |
| 42 | He began to come back down the tunnel towards her . |
| 43 | If the backpack gets too heavy , of course , you could always canoe back down the river to Chepstow ! |
| 44 | Otley came tearing back down the stairs white as a sheet and put the mug of cocoa down on the table . |
| 45 | I wandered back down the stairs , past the washing draped over the bannisters and out onto the broken glass of the yard . |
| 46 | and like you 've got this chunk of shit being digested and it goes through down your canal via peristalsis it 's called a bolus . |
| 47 | Replacing the bowls , they pedalled on down the steep hill and up the next . |
| 48 | By this time I was feeling very friendly towards them and I might have said something to the effect : " If you will just mosey on down this trail ( meaning the main road between Cambridge and Huntingdon ) you will come to Alconbury , some 15 to 16 miles away . " |
| 49 | Yanto cycled on down the wharf , dodging the mooring ropes until he arrived at the berth of a small Norwegian timber boat called ‘ Marit , ’ registered in Oslo . |
| 50 | Behind my back , under showboat lights , Sunset Boulevard sailed on down its slope . |
| 51 | Leaving the Lobkovic Palace , walk on down the hill to the American Embassy ( 15/365 ) formerly the Schönborn Palace ( 15/365 ) whose original owners , the Colloredo , were important militarily during the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 52 | As we paddled on down this part of the river I became aware of a huge commotion behind me . |
| 53 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 54 | He trudged on down a wide muddy road , past the weird triangular shapes of sod-built huts , glimpsing through the smoky windows the red light of a fire , and outside the pools of yellowish water with the bits of sky that had fallen into them , and bog trunks lying half rotten . |
| 55 | I strolled on down the edge of the ninth fairway in the gradually strengthening sun . |
| 56 | NME lensman Kevin Cummins is among the photographers featured in Down The Club , an exhibition of dance and nightclub culture taking place at Manchester Polytechnic 's Institute For Popular Culture until September 23 . |
| 57 | The problem in gearing up investment to shoot off down the experience curve and become the cost leader is that you may be overtaken by technology . |
| 58 | We roared off down the road from the village in the direction of the River Orne . |
| 59 | I stood at the front door of No. 5 , watching Dana straddle his bike , adjust his backpack and wave cheerily to me as he roared off down the road . |
| 60 | Elinor would step out of her therapy class one morning , wave goodbye to Anna and Linda and Susie and Tatiana and Ruth and wham — several hundred rounds from an M16 , the screech of tyres and the howl of brakes as the saloon car roared off down Makepeace Avenue . |