Example sentences of "[pron] be down [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I was down at the Chough last night and everyone was on about it . |
| 2 | I think I would have to give the biscuit to him because one day I was down at the bankruptcy court and I discovered that he had 130 petitions on the file and I do n't think mine reached 100 ! |
| 3 | I was down at the library today . |
| 4 | Forty-five minutes after agreeing to write this I was down on the bridge at Abingdon watching the sun set across the Thames . |
| 5 | When I came back here I was down on the ground , looking for gold , I could n't find it . |
| 6 | Susan : ‘ Well , Vera , I was down in the Bank this morning paying my ESB and you know what happened — an old gentleman came in with flowers for a member of the staff — it was lovely to see ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I had some time off while I was working in Los Angeles and I was down by the hotel pool . |
| 8 | Now when I was down by the river at half seven … ’ |
| 9 | Last year 3,284 were killed or seriously injured , which is down on the figure of 4,302 in 1981 , but a long way from the Department of Transport 's aim of cutting it to below 3,000 . |
| 10 | In all honesty , you ca n't afford to try and play your way out of trouble when you are down at the bottom . |
| 11 | IF you are down in the South West sector of the region over the next weekend the Swanage Railway is having a Steam Gala weekend . |
| 12 | HOWEVER , if you are down in the South East corner , the Kent and East Sussex Railway invites you to return to the ‘ Good Old Days ’ on Saturday and Sunday at Tenterden Station from 10am to 5pm . |
| 13 | You 're down for the floor . |
| 14 | He 's there , still curled up and still secured by the tape , but he must have wriggled his way through to here while you were down in the cellar ; he 's knocked over a table with the phone on it and he 's just turning the phone the right way up as you enter the lounge and see him . |
| 15 | ‘ It was while you were down in the cellar , changing over the barrels , ’ she told him . |
| 16 | Yeah even though she 's down on the bottom she 's bound to of come second |
| 17 | My mother 's amazing — she 's so reserved , and very English , yet the minute the curtain goes up , she 's down at the front . |
| 18 | After her fifth or sixth toke she was down to the end of the joint and a couple of the dried seeds exploded like miniature fireworks , making her jump and then starting her off giggling . |
| 19 | She was down at the scene of the picket . |
| 20 | She realized she was down from the morph-plus , and that her senses were sharper than they had ever been before . |
| 21 | But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it . |
| 22 | Minutes later , she was down in the yard , unlocking the feed shed in the morning darkness . |
| 23 | She was down in the dirt , rolling away from the sharp-toed kicks . |
| 24 | So who was down at the bus on her own ? |
| 25 | On the way home she made a detour to pick wild flowers for her mother , who was down at the harbour gutting pilchards and would be late back . |
| 26 | The children talk about you all the time : when we are down in the shelter , which we still are , often , they keep saying they wish Uncle Walter was here , to make it entertaining . |
| 27 | But now we 're down to the bottom of the barrel . |
| 28 | Ten minutes later we were down on the beach at Taroona , near Hobart ( and the mouth of the Derwent River ) launching the boat from the beach in traditional manner by reversing the trailer into the surf . |
| 29 | We were down in the bar , up the club on Saturday night your Aunt Jean and Raymond and I and this fella beside us was drunk and he put his arm round this woman 's neck , you know the thing , what about ? |
| 30 | And when we were down in the kitchen the partition between the butt and the bairn as they called it was going like that inside of the house in the gale . |