Example sentences of "be down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's a man here , ’ Ma said with an air of wonder , ‘ been down a pothole for one hundred and thirteen days . |
| 2 | At least I do n't mean that — not a good show for you , I know — but frankly when you 've been down a long time it is a good show to see someone from home and get all the news . |
| 3 | Although I 've not been down a mine since then , er the German mines to my er estimation were far more advanced than what the British mines were . |
| 4 | We went there on Sunday , me and Bella , after we 'd been down the prom . ’ |
| 5 | In marriages in which only one of the partners has been down the aisle before , the number of divorces has jumped 67 per cent since 1980 . |
| 6 | None of the five Moroccans had been down the Nfis and verbal information gleaned had been contradictory . |
| 7 | Otherwise he 'd have been down the line after us like a shot . |
| 8 | What should the post-Christian then hold of the religion that there has been down the ages ? |
| 9 | ‘ How long since you 've been down the kennels ? ’ asked Constance . |
| 10 | I 'd been down the prom on my bike , and was riding up the posh part to our street . |
| 11 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 12 | The others went in the car and when I arrived on the bike a little later they 'd been down the 51 steps to the house and found it like the Marie Celeste , everything open , radio playing but no-one around . |
| 13 | I said that 's fuck all right I 've been down the canteen . |
| 14 | He 's been down the railway station today ! |
| 15 | Been down the job centre then ? |
| 16 | Not been down the cottage today ? |
| 17 | And they 'd been down the Lake District , they were from the Lake district . |
| 18 | I have n't been down the Roman for ages . |
| 19 | I 'm down a bit . |
| 20 | Then I like to get the washing in the machine , because I can leave it doing while I 'm down the shops . |
| 21 | Well we 'll try and get some erm we 'll look down , the next time I 'm down the library and look and see if they 've got any Enid Blyton because that might just be a way in . |
| 22 | I 'm down the Roman |
| 23 | The air was cold on stage , the little orchestra seemed to be down a mine and all she could see was a very small bald head and a very long baton . |
| 24 | Used to go down , well I used to be down every night , rubbing the salt in this , to make the bacon and I had a smokehouse down the yard where I used to smoke the bacon . |
| 25 | I remember asking on the shop floor of a division , the board of which had been reduced from fifteen to four , what the major difference was This was not because the fifteen previous board members had felt to be down the line , and was told , to my surprise , that the biggest difference was that they now knew what was going on . |
| 26 | ‘ A few years ago we 'd be down the piano bar listening to … ’ |
| 27 | They all seemed to be down the after ballast compartment so I called down something like , " Come on lads , " I 've got my seizure , what about yours ? " |
| 28 | It was his father , Colin Cauldhame , who got the cordite from the ship-breaking yard there used to be down the coast . |
| 29 | There does n't seem to be a consistent upward pattern er traffic that comes into a dealers showrooms to buy cars can be up one week , it can be down the next . |
| 30 | Nothing down here we want cat food , lard and Ryvita Ryvita will be down the bottom here , I suppose and lard is right she wants brown Ryvita quickly . |