Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [vb past] down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After tea we walked down through the remains of the garden . |
| 2 | The service started with our opening carol , ‘ Away in a Manger ’ and continued with all the normal Christmas readings ; after the gospel we sat down for the nativity play , which was performed by a section from the armoured car squadron . |
| 3 | Next day we went down to the Nene Valley Railway . |
| 4 | From the train we looked down over the clutter of the rooftops , things broken , things abandoned , things stored and forgotten : broken water-jugs , wheel-less bicycles , rolls of rush matting . |
| 5 | The next morning we went down to the cottage , the sun shone and the trees sparkled with diamond necklaces . |
| 6 | He was as anxious as I was about our journey to Glastonbury and the next morning we went down to the palace refectory feeling heavy-eyed and sluggish . |
| 7 | Each morning we ran down to the harbour to watch the previous night 's catch being landed . |
| 8 | The venue was the carpark of the College of Textiles , but as this was not a particularly photogenic location we moved down to the river , a short distance away . |
| 9 | After a time we dropped down from the hills on to a flat gravel plain where the track ran straight as a drawn line . |
| 10 | With my mother we settled down in the back row . |