Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb past] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He puts himself in good light by adding that he gripped me tightly round the shoulders in reassurance , that he gave me brandy , that we talked long after the starlings had ceased their chatter , that we walked down into the street and discussed in jogging stride what guilt or shame or desire could do to the human soul . |
| 2 | And we came down in the morning as safe as we would have been anywhere . |
| 3 | Charity bets twenty five pounds and we came down in the car from Newmarket she had the she had the post out the light everything , now what 's what 's it going on ? |
| 4 | Some of the boys followed and we went down into the basement and I turned the phonograph on as loud as it would play . |
| 5 | We left the older ones in the family to look after Low Birk Hatt , do the milking and other chores , and we went down with the horses . |
| 6 | He was in my heat and we went down to the start to fix our blocks into the Tartan . |
| 7 | IN comparison to the other places we 'd visited until then , and to those we would subsequently see , Porto was the most touristy — but not unpleasantly so , and we strolled down to the river Douro where all the famous port cellars are . |
| 8 | He slapped the water buffalo on its massive rump and we headed down towards the beach . |
| 9 | An ironical cheer went up at this and we settled down for the night . |
| 10 | I think in next weekend possibly er if we drove down on the Sunday evening |
| 11 | But before we went down into the |
| 12 | Before we went down to the kitchen Elinor patted all the Napoleana into place , violets and Redouté roses ; a picture of him riding his horse , Marengo , and that one of him feeling for his wallet ; matchstick models made by French prisoners of war and a tricolour flying at half-mast . |
| 13 | Before we sat down in the restaurant Jamila took me aside and kissed me on the mouth . |
| 14 | We were not very popular when we came down to the sitting-room . |
| 15 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 16 | He was pin high to the left of the flag and the crowd was stamping and cheering as we walked down to the green . |
| 17 | Instead , as we walked down to the bar this evening , he had been all smiles and indulgent gallantry , complimenting us on our appearance , an arm lightly circling each of our waists . |
| 18 | As we walked down towards the community centre they all stopped off somewhere to steal some cymbals . |
| 19 | The play was necessarily a matinee , and as we went down past the Albert Hall a siren did go . |
| 20 | All through my teens it had to be a very rainy Sunday indeed that did not find us perched on the Cow and Calf a crop of murderous rocks resembling neither cows , calves nor any other animal , ' or out at Bolton Abbey , negotiating the stepping-stones across the wide but shallow Wharfe ; or eating our sandwiches on Haworth Moor as we looked down on the Brontes ' parsonage and re-enacted the highlights from Wuthering Heights in our romantic young heads . |
| 21 | I enquired , as we drove down to the shrine . |
| 22 | Swaledale opened up below us as we stepped down off the tops . |
| 23 | Nothing more was said as we rode down in the elevator . |
| 24 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
| 25 | Pipes and cigarettes glowed in the darkness as we settled down for the six-hour passage . |
| 26 | As we swept down to the seam in the old iron lift we all grabbed each other 's hands in simultaneous panic . |
| 27 | We had Liverpool superstar Frank Holden for company as we travelled down to the Twenty Foot river near March . |