Example sentences of "[verb] be down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie immediately thought of the lack of seagulls she 'd noticed when she 'd been down at the sea-front . |
| 2 | It was just that , well , I heard he 'd been down at the police station this morning . |
| 3 | He 'd been down to the coke-cellar beneath the church , where the stage was stored , and with the assistance of Mr Peniket he 'd tried the curtains for size . |
| 4 | It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets . |
| 5 | Reuben Boll must have been down to the Canaries or Tenerife . |
| 6 | That must have been down to the policeman . |
| 7 | ‘ She might have been down at the jetty a couple of hours ago . |
| 8 | I would rather have been down at the villa making figgy hedgehogs for Tony but a promise is a promise . |
| 9 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 10 | She had been down to the lochside in the early morning with a basket of crusts and potato peelings for the water birds and had left a row of neat black boot prints in the snow . |
| 11 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |
| 12 | This original small port and fishing village had been down on the marshes adjoining the Rother , not far from Rye , and given to Fécamp Abbey by Cnut . |
| 13 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 14 | The stout landlord , who had been down in the cellar fetching a fresh keg of ale , lowered it to the floor . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been down under the sea , you know ! |
| 16 | In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged . |