Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came back on the Friday night and erm , well I 've packed my job in at the Transport Department , I better go down to the Recruiting Office and see what else . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd better go down to the stream and hide in the bushes , ’ said Geoffrey . |
| 3 | If you ca n't control your temper you 'd better go down to the canteen and help yourself to a drink . |
| 4 | Lancashire Region to second and colleagues if , if all the other movers and seconders and the C E C speaker would all come down to the front it would help us enormously with time Yorkshire Region to move . |
| 5 | Well anyway Sarah and that lot can sleep downstairs , we 'll all come down during the night |
| 6 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 7 | He used almost völkisch language , claiming that the Romanians ( unlike the Hungarian , German and other minorities ) were ‘ autochthonous ’ : ‘ They did not come from elsewhere , they did not fall down from the sky ; they were born and lived here , in this land , and they defended it with their blood . ’ |
| 8 | But a bowler who does not break down at the end of every other over and who can finish each season with an average around the 25 mark would be worth his weight in gold now . |
| 9 | She did not even go as far as her room — the sound of the door being unlocked , opening and closing again should surely not carry down to the hall . |
| 10 | The dog leaped at the closest man who , encumbered with carbine and sword , could not cut down at the beast , then Sharpe 's mare slammed into the Frenchman 's horse and the big sword slashed down at the Dragoon . |
| 11 | She would not go down for the fireworks . |
| 12 | Well can you not go down in the morning when you 're a bit better ? |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll just go down to the surgery and pick up my case . |
| 14 | Wednesday , I 'd got Michael outside in the pushchair , coat on and I think I 'd just come down from the loo and I saw the car pull up I quickly ran and got me coat on oh I , I 'll come with you she said , so she come shopping with me . |
| 15 | Sheer orders of magnitude matter , and the orders of magnitude do not come down on the side of the real-balance effect . |
| 16 | Her left hand did not come down upon the ground . |
| 17 | Now I though he would have hysterics ; he could not get down on the ground quick enough to carry this action out . |
| 18 | If one did not sit down at the table there would be a gap , an empty space that would spoil the symmetry of the host 's table . |
| 19 | I have my doubts that Batty will ever be world class , that aside I can not understand why Wilko can not sit down with the side he 's got and bang something out to keep both Strachan and Rocastle in the side . |
| 20 | Now Vinnie will realise why we did not sit down in the pub . |
| 21 | He was being told in no uncertain terms that he could come out of all this as the loving , caring father who would do anything to keep his daughter 's reputation ; who welcomed her choice of husband with open arms ; who would not bow down in the face of adversity , but would rise up and conquer it . |
| 22 | It is not that English people do not lie down in the bedroom , or that French people do not have keys , but rather they choose different salient characteristics for the expression of that specific meaning . |
| 23 | ‘ A football club does not close down at the end of a playing season . |
| 24 | Once the planting has been done , cover the soil with a thick mulch of crushed bark , peat or leaf mould , which will gradually break down into the soil and help to improve its texture . |
| 25 | The rain will gradually die down from the west , to leave only a few showers in the south-east by the end of the day . |
| 26 | Vertical movement along a fault may lead to the impoundment of streams if they are flowing towards the uplifted block , whereas if they are flowing towards the down-thrown side they will rapidly cut down through the fault scarp . |
| 27 | We ca n't not ever go down to the beach again , or to the spinney . " |
| 28 | Do n't you ever go down to the hostels or down |
| 29 | No I think that they 'll probably go down to the Mum and |
| 30 | No , I think that there 'll probably go down to the mum and slept there |