adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
come
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He might read for a while but he would not come downstairs , would not hear anything if she were quiet.
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Alice had just come downstairs in her nightgown.
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Carolyn was cautious about the times when she came downstairs .
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They came downstairs dressed for work, for tennis, for church, for a ball.
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There's no need for you to come downstairs for breakfast.
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Alfred came downstairs , tumbled into his chair, and Inez jumped up and served him.
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I came downstairs and the place stank of unwashed bodies mixed with the smells of kippers being grilled and sausages fried.
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Kyle would come downstairs in the morning and order his parents to serve him breakfast.
creep
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Their twelve-year-old son had crept downstairs and listened at the door.
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Late in the night I got up and crept downstairs .
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At half-past six and still dark they crept downstairs and out into the street.
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He crept downstairs , hardly making any noise.
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As I crept downstairs , I could hear Mr Rochester in his room, walking up and down and sighing.
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As the afternoon drew to a close, Mildred crept downstairs and out into the darkening yard.
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I creep downstairs and roam pointlessly around.
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She crept downstairs , through the kitchen and out into the little back garden.
fall
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Even the bruise on his forehead, the one he'd got falling downstairs days ago, was throbbing again.
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At about 2 a.m. he had fallen downstairs and slumped in a heap by the front door.
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During his absence, Jennie fell downstairs while visiting friends in Somerset, breaking her ankle.
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If she fell downstairs , at least she would be unaware of what happened then.
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He apparently tripped over his cat and fell downstairs and will be out for six weeks.
get
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I'd got downstairs as far as the door that I'd come in through when I heard the upstairs door go.
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Have been very bad, and can hardly get downstairs to empty the bucket and fetch more tea.
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When he got downstairs he found an envelope from his dad, so he opened the envelope and took out the note.
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When we got downstairs , Frank, Charlie, and Eddie were waiting for us.
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When she got downstairs , there was no sound at all.
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When she got downstairs they were both waiting for her, so obviously waiting that she stopped dead and looked alarmed.
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By stepping on the edge of the carpet where it was thickest, Lily could get downstairs unheard.
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Besides, she is to be got downstairs , and how is that to be managed?
go
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Daffy was going downstairs and slipped on one of the steps.
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Does Raymond communicate with Della Guardia first, or does he go downstairs to address the faithful?
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She went downstairs , yelling, sobbing with mirth.
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Finally I went downstairs and sat in a chair with a book.
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I signed more pieces of paper and went downstairs to join the queue outside the clothing store.
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At dawn, he rose and went downstairs and ordered breakfast sent up.
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That was enough to stop him, and he went downstairs to his lonely bed.
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On the morning of the third day, I got up, dressed, and went downstairs for breakfast.
hurry
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Pull yourself together, she told herself, and hurried downstairs .
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I dumped a drawer or two, knocked over a lamp, and hurried downstairs .
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She hurried downstairs and saw Sam Morgan standing beside the van, smiling at her encouragingly.
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Once she'd finished in the bathroom, she hurried downstairs to collect her shawl.
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As he hurried downstairs he heard Buddie leave the house and Lady the bulldog barking excitedly in the yard.
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The dress really wasn't right, though. - Remembering the soufflé, she hurried downstairs .
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Anxious as she was about the neighbours, she couldn't help laughing as she hurried downstairs .
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She spun away from the mirror and hurried downstairs , forcing the curling tension aside.
run
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When they'd stuck up the paintings, which made the room less like a chalky concrete box, they ran downstairs .
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Finally I leapt out of bed, ran downstairs and out of the house.
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Flavia pulled on the clothes she had been about to change into and ran downstairs .
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He yelled at us when we ran downstairs , believing we would fall and break our necks and die on the landing.
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There was the sound of footsteps running downstairs and Jacqui rushed into his arms.
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She ran downstairs again, clutching her wicked New York paper-cutter.
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He read the label, then turned and ran downstairs three at a time.
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Then without a word he turned and ran downstairs .
wait
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Then you went up in the lift while the maid waited downstairs .
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We were still going slowly and painfully round the room when Estella brought in the relations who had been waiting downstairs .
walk
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As he walked downstairs , he read it a third time to make sure.
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Jack walked downstairs and went to the kitchen.
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They walked downstairs into a big room.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The washing machine is downstairs .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He doesn't want to call Paul up from downstairs .
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He dressed and went downstairs with her.
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He ran downstairs and saw the storeroom was on fire.
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Her head throbbed in rhythm with her bruises, yet she'd hardly noticed any of it downstairs .
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Lois shook her head and whispered for Petey to go back downstairs .
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Some one coming would ring downstairs , or, more likely, call first.
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The long silences were often broken by the roar of bus engines and rumble of bus announcements downstairs .
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Then she goes back to sleep while I go downstairs to face the psycho killer who broke in.