Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] down to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gardens outside my window are bowing down to the heat of the afternoon , but my mind is racing in this stillness , like a dust devil on the apparently windless plains . |
| 2 | We 're going down to the beach to look for mussels . ’ |
| 3 | We 're going down to the village . |
| 4 | So after you 've finished training , you 're going down to the library , yes , to look up the names of the people luve in Street , and once you 've been on that appointment you 've got to go back to the branch and you 're gon na do your mail shots whatever you 're gon na do , put it in there . |
| 5 | " I 'm going down to the beach . " |
| 6 | First I 'm going down to the village to fetch old Bonnie and get her to have a look at that ankle . |
| 7 | ‘ No , I 'm going down to the pub , ’ he answered and he wiped a tear away from his eye . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm going down to the pub , ’ she said ; ‘ I need a drink ’ , and added rather threateningly , ‘ You coming ? ’ |
| 9 | If I 'm going down to the pub with my mates , I will probably just wear jeans but , again , I 'll wear a nice shirt and smart shoes . |
| 10 | I 'm going down to the shop later , so I 'll make an appointment for you . ’ |
| 11 | Because he lost sight of me quickly , he knew that I could not be going down to the river or turning left into the church : he had an uninterrupted view of both . |
| 12 | At first I took them for Maria 's , though it seemed strange that she should be going down to the beach at that time . |
| 13 | Pete went over to the wagon , and as he was taking out the inventory clipboard he explained that they 'd be going down to the boat house in Diane 's pickup truck . |
| 14 | Well , I 'd better be getting down to the bus … |
| 15 | ‘ Laz , before you get your trusty Smith and Whatever platinum plated , do n't you think we should be getting down to the business , which is your business . |
| 16 | At twenty past ten Sandison put his book away and sat back to watch the people who were walking down to the square . |
| 17 | There they were going down to the car . |
| 18 | On the far bank white oxen were coming down to the water . |
| 19 | Readers were settling down to the novel 's opening instalment — not a venture to be recommended for ‘ people with weak nerves ’ remarked Strakhov , the gifted critic — when a murder story broke in the newspapers . |
| 20 | The great boom of the war years had passed and the docks were settling down to the post war doldrums . |
| 21 | Well Craig 's going down to the local . |
| 22 | He could have been plummeting down to the centre of the earth , in a submarine nudging over the seabed or flying soundlessly through outer space . |
| 23 | who was walking down to the telephone kiosk and asked all the questions about the area so that I |
| 24 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 25 | Aggie got the mousetraps , and the only thing they caught was her Harold 's big toe one night when he was hurrying down to the lavatory in the backyard . |
| 26 | She never fussed when he said that he was going down to the country and did n't know when he 'd be back . |
| 27 | She did n't fall heavily , but lightly , as if a piece of muslin was drifting down to the carpet . |
| 28 | " I am going down , " she whispered , and before Maria Candida could stop her , had gathered her skirts and was running down to the hall . |