Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | near Kettering , Don went to er Northampton and then finally I went to Rushden and er I 'd been there about a year and all of a sudden there was a call in for Shorteners at so I went down on the bike and er what er the one over me who , who was elderly , well was n't over me but he was er he was on my job but the senior man on it he come in , the boss had sent him in to have a look cos the er Shorteners were complaining , and er then they rang up for one of us , he said well I 'm not leaving till I 've solved this problem so I had to go . |
2 | So I walked down to the sea and before long , I was at the ship and was swimming round it . |
3 | The Ptarmigan was closed , and so I walked down beneath the ski-tow towards the road . |
4 | So I sat down in the warm , and ate the man 's breakfast . |
5 | But ha I remember I was on my test and I pulled round er it was very , very busy and there were two rows of cars and I pulled up and I thought right there 's a gap down there and I want to go straight on and all these others were turning le turning right so I squeezed down through the gap and then I thought right I 'm gon na be here a little while shall I put it in neutral , blow no I wo n't . |
6 | So she pressed down on the button more firmly . |
7 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
8 | So they escaped down into the village . |
9 | So he came down to the vestibule , where the three doors were , and under the sills of the two great doors light shone , warm and enticing , and the third was behind a musty leather curtain . |
10 | Somehow she scrambled down into the hollow and landed on her knees by Fand . |
11 | Finally he lay down in the snow and determined to die , for his stamina had failed him and he had not found the Dwarves ; and he did not want to go back to the life of killing he had led . |
12 | When later on she went down to the sea she felt almost as cheerful again as in pre-Andrée days . |
13 | One of Aunt Tossie 's luxuries was an early breakfast in bed — later she came down to the dining room where she ate a second . |
14 | Also we went down to the H.Q. at Pages Park where we saw some men putting up photographs of the line in the past . |
15 | Periodically I went down into the warmth below , to write up my notes and check them over against the ship 's design plans , which Nils had produced for me before going off with Iain to talk to the Navy Yard people . |
16 | When he came back we sat down on the grass and had a breather while Mr Sykes , the butcher , and his assistants went on carving . |
17 | Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job . |
18 | Now he looked down at the table top , then sideways at his colleagues and back at Cameron . |
19 | Fernando had said and she had said , and really it boiled down to the misuse of the three most precious words in the universal language — I love you ! |
20 | When they 'd putted out he went down to the 7th tee . |
21 | well I went down to the park had to a act , went on again ! |
22 | Moodily she looked down at the ground . |
23 | Well they got down in the grass you see . |
24 | Self-consciously they ducked down among the rest . |
25 | It would oscillate through the earth and back , until eventually it settled down at the center . |
26 | And then I sat down on the bed and opened it . |
27 | Then I sat down by the letter table . |
28 | Blooming great fine statue of p and then you went down to the road where the Wolferton . |
29 | Alexandra would find her by the fire in the drawing-room in the afternoons , the Pekinese guarding her against invisible dangers , then she came down in the mornings and needed letters written , wools held . |
30 | Then she went down to the cancer shop and asked if she could help them . |