Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] down to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's the easiest way of getting your firewood — cut the trees at the edge of the forest and send them rolling down to the bottom . |
| 2 | ‘ That should suit you right down to the ground . ’ |
| 3 | The handshake was a stupid idea as she was still holding Darren , but she let him slide down to the floor and we shook . |
| 4 | Ajayi was trying to cultivate the seneschal 's acquaintance ( when her sore leg and stiff back let her get down to the basement levels where he was usually to be found ) whereas Quiss had started out trying to intimidate him . |
| 5 | After bathing and dressing we wander down to the surprisingly well attended dining room for Christmas lunch . |
| 6 | If you putt the ball , you can hit it firmly to the top of the bank and simply let it roll down to the hole . |
| 7 | Then she asked , ‘ What on earth made you go down to the beach ? |
| 8 | I do n't want you walking down to the pub in this , in the dark cold night . |
| 9 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 10 | What I did was I got I went down to the print room and I got a piece of A one paper and I mean if you want to use Chris |
| 11 | He was very normal , you could see him walking down to the bank Monday to Friday , but he 's got this completely eccentric side to him . ’ |
| 12 | I would like you to let , I would like you to let me go down to the fair . |
| 13 | ‘ You must ask the Information Ministry to let you go down to the south , so you can see for yourself what the bastards have done to our people , and tell the world about it , ’ he said , ‘ Please , John . |
| 14 | A nail-biter that will have you chewing down to the second knuckle . |
| 15 | " Did Comrade Andrew tell you to go down to the picket ? |
| 16 | Meantime , he reminded himself , since the entire company was now assembled , he had better be about sending off Father Boniface 's errand-boy to find Aldhelm at Upton among his sheep , and ask him to come down to the abbey when his work for the day was over , and pick out his shadowy Benedictine from among a number now complete . |
| 17 | Jennifer remembered Tristram 's face grinning through the wall , and the firm warm clasp of his hand as he reached through to her ; she remembered a night when the moonlight was like mercury on the trees — and she remembered her own sudden cry of love and joy , which Mrs Prynn had thought was the deadly shriek of a mandrake and which had caused her to go down to the lower scullery to see if Jennifer was safe . |
| 18 | She remembered me coming down to the burn and tramping the bags in the the , help to wash them . |
| 19 | They 'd let them sink down to the bottom and drift there with the long-haired weeds — ; |
| 20 | ‘ What on earth possessed you to go down to the sea ? ’ asked Mrs Ridley . |
| 21 | Do you go down to the baths every night ? |
| 22 | As she heard him come back she refrained from looking out of her window , nor did she go down to the corridor outside his room when , a little later , she heard him groaning as he always did in the grip of a nightmare . |
| 23 | ‘ Then did she fly down to the Stones and among them , grieving for eagles and men alike , who now stood mute around her , pointing as great Stones up to the sky . |
| 24 | So I think he went down to the stews and bawdy houses along the river . |
| 25 | Yes it did it run down to the river and we used to have to write to get a permit to camp on there for the week but then there used to be an old , the old foreman of he used to come round every Saturday night , have you got your permit ? |
| 26 | I think it boils down to the fact that it 's fairly economic to transport vast quantities of people but not to transport from the outer edges and the odd bits in the middle and there 's no way that they 're going to get a full and comprehensive service come what may . |
| 27 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 28 | Had he gone down to the bottom of the hill and worked his way up to Belvedere Road from the south-east ? |
| 29 | My mother wanted me to go down to the bungalow with them and because I wanted — I wanted our relations to improve — well , I said I would . ’ |
| 30 | After they had gone in and resumed their grind in the usual places , Rose came out to him and said gently , ‘ You were terrible , Daddy , to make them go down to the lake . ’ |